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Teenagers are an important market for cellphones – having them use your products can make sense.

Nielsen has now performed an evaluation of this user demographic. A very interesting chart is the one below – it shows how teenagers choose their phones:

More data can be found via Nielsen at the URL below:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/a-global-view-of-cellphones-and-youth/

Teenagers are an important market for cellphones - having them use your products can make sense. Nielsen has now performed an evaluation of this user demographic. A very interesting chart is the one below - it shows how teenagers choose their phones: More data can be found via Nielsen at the URL below: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/a-global-view-of-cellphones-and-youth/

Governments are creative when it comes to finding new ways to fill their coffers – after all, establishing a new tax is less work than cleaning up inefficiencies. Reports of a Google tax have been all over the media in January – and have just surfaced once again.

sify.com now reports that the plans are coming closer to fruition:

France will introduce its so-called ‘Google tax’ on online advertisements Jan 1, parliament decided on Tuesday.

The tax on companies based in France would be amount to one per cent of the net amount spent on online advertising.

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As of this writing, not much more is known…

Governments are creative when it comes to finding new ways to fill their coffers - after all, establishing a new tax is less work than cleaning up inefficiencies. Reports of a Google tax have been all over the media in January - and have just surfaced once again. sify.com now reports that the plans are ...

Traditionally, the folks at Operas have provided device usage data in their monthly “State of the mobile Web” report. They recently switched focus to include demographic and socioeconomic information – the latest report looks at the way mobile phones are used by 18-to-27-year-olds.

For me, the most interesting chart was the one which looked at usage of phones in public transport. The lesson to learn here is short and sweet: optimize your application for short and bursty usage:

Find out more via the URL below:
http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/10/

Traditionally, the folks at Operas have provided device usage data in their monthly "State of the mobile Web" report. They recently switched focus to include demographic and socioeconomic information - the latest report looks at the way mobile phones are used by 18-to-27-year-olds. For me, the most interesting chart was the one which looked at ...

So far, the CPU performance of netbooks was severely limited – while the Atom is strong enough to keep yours truly updating web sites and doing some coding, more processing power is always nice.

AMD has now created a new platform for these small devices. It has a slightly stronger CPU compared to a dual Atom:

Single thread performance is significantly better:

The real fun lies in the GPU,. which is significantly stronger than the one found in current mobile systems:

Find more benchmarks at the URL below:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4023/the-brazos- …

So far, the CPU performance of netbooks was severely limited - while the Atom is strong enough to keep yours truly updating web sites and doing some coding, more processing power is always nice. AMD has now created a new platform for these small devices. It has a slightly stronger CPU compared to a dual ...

Two years ago, nobody cared about mobile malware. OK, there were a few small outbreaks – but nothing which made its owners money.

InformationWeek now reports the following:

More than 1 million cell phone users in China has been infected with a virus that automatically sends text messages, and the attack is costing users a combined 2 million yuan ($300,000 U.S.) per day.

According to Shanghai Daily, “the ‘zombie’ virus, hidden in a bogus antivirus application, can send the phone user’s SIM card information to hackers, who then remotely control the phone to send URL links.”

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As this product relies purely on social engineering or idiocy, I would not consider it a virus – let’s see when this is combined with an exploit for maximum damage and automatic spreading…

Two years ago, nobody cared about mobile malware. OK, there were a few small outbreaks - but nothing which made its owners money. InformationWeek now reports the following: More than 1 million cell phone users in China has been infected with a virus that automatically sends text messages, and the attack is costing users a combined ...

Our post on mobile data pricing as seen by Opera has caused lively debate in our readership – big thanks to each and everyone of you for the great feedback.

Thomas Ford from Opera has now sent us the following statement:

Clearly the U.S. was the toughest country to figure out exactly what number to use. There was a robust internal debate regarding the pricing with respect to tiered plans and unlimited plans. However, with tiered plans, Opera Mini will only save money if someone goes over their allotment. The real benefit of Opera Mini under those circumstances is more page loads under the plan. With unlimited plans, the primary benefit is speed. Almost all users with those plans won’t reach the level of usage to pay overage charges.

We decided to use pay-as-you-go rates for two reasons. First, it is the clearest in terms of pay-per-MB pricing when considering the issue with tiered plans and unlimited plans. Second, while smartphones dominate the top 10 handsets in the U.S., the so-called Long Tail has a notable impact.
Approximately 62% of our U.S. users use something other than an Apple, RIM or Android smartphone.

Globally, of course, these numbers are closer to what almost everyone pays. Metered plans are more prevalent in many countries, including most in the top 10.

I can but hope that this somehow clarifies the situation – please let us know if we can assist you further!

Our post on mobile data pricing as seen by Opera has caused lively debate in our readership - big thanks to each and everyone of you for the great feedback. Thomas Ford from Opera has now sent us the following statement: Clearly the U.S. was the toughest country to figure out exactly what number to use. ...

When GPRS was first released, carriers charged insane prices for mobile data. This has changed since then – but mobile data still is pretty expensive in some countries.

This month’s State of the Mobile Web report (PDF) contains the following figure:

For me, the most surprising thing was the high price of data in the USA – anyone of you have an idea on why the situation is as it is?

When GPRS was first released, carriers charged insane prices for mobile data. This has changed since then - but mobile data still is pretty expensive in some countries. This month's State of the Mobile Web report (PDF) contains the following figure: For me, the most surprising thing was the high price of data in the USA ...

When it comes to cell phone service prices, every user envies the carriers which are not locally available. Users of other carriers envy Hutchison heads for price, whereas Hutchison heads sometimes envy others for various reasons, well, you get the idea.

The New America Foundation has now performed a tally, and ended up with the following chart of voice prices:

When it came to texts, one can see that all-you-can-eat plans seem to be pretty rare:

The chart on data services also is interesting:

Finally, all the data “collated” into what users actually get to pay:

Hit the URL below to get the actual data:
http://oti.newamerica.net/publications/policy/an_international_comparison_of_cell_phone_plans_and_prices

When it comes to cell phone service prices, every user envies the carriers which are not locally available. Users of other carriers envy Hutchison heads for price, whereas Hutchison heads sometimes envy others for various reasons, well, you get the idea. The New America Foundation has now performed a tally, and ended up with the ...