Tag Archives: mobile

So here are some of the most interesting trends and graphs we came across in the later part of 2011 (therefore showing trends of 2011). They are from a variety of sources and we have tried to include the relevant credit at the bottom of each. We will be adding a couple more as this [...]

  Global smartphone penetration by operating system is only 27%. While smartphone penetration is over 50% in North America (44% in the US) and European markets, its under 20% in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa region, and Latin America. In November 2011, Q3 reports showed that China surpassed the U.S. in unit shipment volume of smartphones [...]

Last week the UK India Business Council (UKIBC), who FabriQate has a long standing relationship with, kindly invited us to present at the Techworld UK conference at the ExCel exhibition centre in London. The theme was “Making Technology Work for the Indian Customer”. Our Global Sales Director, Syd Syed, delivered an energetic and passionate presentation [...]

Most of the sessions so far are talking about how the Asian scene (Emerging market driven) requires different business models for Apps Stores and even Device makers. Talking about huge opportunity as mobile screens being the main screen for content consumption. Tablets are got to become a major screen that replaces the laptop (CEO, Vidiator). [...]

View Mary Meeker’s presentation on Business Insider: The mobile industry ecosystem is now self-sustainable. Silicon Valley superstars Apple and Google’s iOS and Android mobile operating systems have created spaces for developers to reap enormous profits on applications. Aside from well known manufacturers of handsets and tablets, industry titans that had previously only sold PCs, phones, [...]

Last week, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported on Facebook’s new Facebook for Every Phone app. The app will function on 2500 Java-enabled phones world-wide and will allow Facebook to expand its presence on a wider range of handsets and thus a broader global audience. It already has 250 million mobile phone users. Features include a lightweight version of [...]

Beth Stackpole of Computerworld very recently wrote an article on opportunities in the mobile app development career. While it’s useful to know that app makers, whether experienced or fresh out of college, are in demand, FabriQate thinks it’s just as useful to give them a glimpse of what their potential careers might look like by [...]

*July update* So here is our summary of some key stats about mobile usage that show how the dominance of smartphones (and tablets) is changing the way we interact on the internet. While the chart data is a bit outdated, it holds value in allowing us to see just how much the handset and operating [...]

Everyone knows that mobile usage and adoption is exploding, but within an enterprise setting it has also seen some very good uptake. Our friends at Zendesk put together this beautiful infographic about mobile in enterprise. Interesting to note that 65% of Fortune 500 are deploying an iPad internally (atleast FabriQate has helped a couple of [...]

Our technology director, Manav is over in Singapore for the DigitalMatters.Asia conference. Tune in to our twitter stream to get live updates about the sessions and insights. Next session: REINVENTING CONTENT IN THE DIGITAL WORLD Production of video content has adapted, developed and transformed itself in the digital entertainment revolution.  The panel discusses techniques such [...]