Just how dominant is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the mobile search market? According to StatCounter

Smartphoniacs are described as people who take their phone to the restroom; send messages when driving and at all hours of the day and night; and are people who make excuses for rudely typing away on their device during conversations or meetings. This class of smartphone users span just the…

Secretive mobile analytics startup Ground Truth, which recently hired former Qpass president Sterling Wilson as its CEO, has raised $2.62 million in a venture round, according to a regulatory filing. The filing does not list the venture capital firms that participated in the funding, although Steamboat Ventures managing director Beau…

While the larger M&A market has all but dried up in the first half of 2009, “companies that have something, anything, to do with mobile,” are the exception to the rule, reports AllThingsD, which quotes The Jordan, Edmiston Group. Release. In the past six months, the number of overall transactions…

It’s been two years since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) first started selling applications for the iPhone through the App store. In that time, investors have flocked to the opportunity, pumping slightly more than $100 million into 17 companies. The figures are being reported today by “the ChubbyBrain database,” which keeps a…

Two reports issued today provide a negative outlook for both the carriers and the handset makers, which will both see rougher times ahead, according to Ovum and Informa Telecoms & Media. For handset makers, it’s worse. Mobile phone sales are expected to fall by a brutal 14 percent over the…

The sudden interest in the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett was apparently too much for Twitter’s search engine, which quickly got overloaded and returned results that were increasingly delayed—when it returned them at all. Later Thursday evening, Twitter said it had disabled the search field on users’ home…

If you’ve ever texted or answered a phone call while driving (and it’s illegal to do so in your state), then you would probably agree with two recent reports released today that basically came to the conclusion that cellphones are more addicting than many other vices.

Whether you hate it or can’t live without it, there’s no denying that Twitter has gone from early adopter craze to genuine mainstream popularity—according to the latest figures from Hitwise it was the fifth most visited social nework in the UK and the 38th most visited overall in May after…

More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding, who surveyed 4,190 consumers in 19 countries, called that an “opportunity” as he detailed the stats at the Mobile Entertainment Forum’s big Mobile Entertainment Market…

Two reports released today looked at the smartphone buying habits of consumers, especially when it comes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone. The NPD Group reported results of a survey today that asked people why they are not buying the iPhone, while Crowd Science looked at the likelihood of current…

—iPhone vs. iPod Touch demographics: While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has sold about 21 million iPhones, it inflates the numbers by including iPod Touch owners, who connect to the internet using Wi-Fi, rather than a cellular network. AdMob determined by analyzing its ad network that iPhone users are richer, older and…

The phones that surfed the web the most in May were: the Samsung Instinct, Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry Curve, according to Millennial Media, which released its monthly ad report today. The data is only a sampling because it examines user behavior strictly through the ads that Millennial serves. It…

—Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Map Upgrade: Google said you can now search Google Maps using your voice on Android. It also improved their business listings to include content such as store hours, prices, ratings and reviews, and added transit and walking directions. Users must manually upload from the Android Market. Google…

The market for mobile financial services in emerging markets is on track to surge from zero to $5 billion by 2012, according to a study conducted by the U.S.-based microfinance policy and research center CGAP and the GSMA, a wireless trade association. While people in emerging markets have used cellphones…

Mobile phone shipments always fall from the fourth quarter to the first quarter, but this year the drop was particularly steep according to ABI Research, which reported that worldwide mobile phone shipments were 35 million fewer in the first quarter of 2009 than for the same period a year ago.…

4INFO, a mobile ad network and text alert service, conducted a test last month to see if they could use mobile advertising to get consumers to start following brands on Twitter. Based on the results, released by the company this week, the trial is being considered a success. Six brands…

With all the the iPhone 3G S mania, Nielsen thought it might be a good time to dig into just who the “typical” iPhone owner is, finding that they’re not just the young, early adopters one might expect. Of the roughly 6.4 million active iPhone users in the U.S., the…

Over the next few years, the handset industry will increasingly polarize between low-end feature phones and high-end smartphones, according to two separate reports released today by Yankee Group and Juniper Research. Yankee Group said that 41 percent of consumers in North America are likely to choose a phone with an…