Amazon has finally unveiled its new colour tablet, the Kindle Fire, as it prepares to lock horns with a number of industry leaders on various fronts in what is a ferociously competitive market.

The new device, already being touted as stiff competition to the market dominance of Apple’s iPad, will be available to purchase for roughly $300 less than the cheapest Apple equivalent.

Kindle is already a well established brand, with the new Fire model standing on the shoulders of several generations of popular...

The UK mobile operator three has warned that it may run out of data capacity in built up areas if LTE spectrum auctions do not take place next year as expected.

The bidding process designed to fairly distribute 4G frequency space for rapidly rising data consumption among consumers is earmarked for 2010. However, Three’s CEO David Dyson warned that the timetable was already slipping.

"There is a huge financial...

Fixed broadband revenues are looking set to beat voice next year, according to the latest research from Ovum.The study entitled: Global Fixed Voice and Broadband Market Outlook: 2011–16, has shown how consumer landlines are in decline, dropping by around 18 percent over the coming five years however, broadband is going to continue its upward trend.The latest figures are reflected in the number of fixed phone and broadband lines and the analyst firm predicts that this is the last year that consumer fixed voice will have the edge over...

Infographic from Thomson Reuters

Consumers will soon be able to access music, movies and news on their mobiles via Facebook after Spotify, The Guardian, The Independent and Vevo joined up to be part of a new range of social apps.These companies, along with Cinemur, Myvideo, Deezer and Dailymotion are among the 33 European launch partners joining up to roll out a new range of social apps which is helping the social media site cement its position as a multi-entertainment platform.Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's latest move at the...

Worldwide tablet sales are expected to total 63.6 million units, resulting in a 261.4 percent increase from 2010 sales of 17.6 million units, according to a new report by Gartner.

Tablet Sales will Continue to Rise through 2015 The report also states that media tablet sales will continue to increase through 2015 when sales are predicted to hit 326.3 million units.

Apple is projected to account for 73.4 percent of worldwide tablet sales in 2011, whilst Gartner predicts that no other platforms will have more ...

Ofcom has today published its latest consumer report which has revealed that TalkTalk and 3UK are the worst offenders when it comes to customer complaints.TalkTalk managed to top two categories for landline and broadband services with 0.8 and 0.58 complaints per 1000 customers between April and June this year while Virgin Media was the golden performer amongst landline providers with 0.15 complaints per 1000 customers. Unlike previous years' reports, the 2011 study included the largest number of providers and other stellar performances...

2011: the year of media tablets

Although there were tablets in the market long before iPad, after its first announcement many still had doubts, and questioned the usefulness of such a device. Nevertheless Apple exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. Since the release of the iPad, Apple alone has shipped a total of 15 million tablets making it a most wanted Christmas present of 2010. Despite a temporary volume decrease in Q1 2011, caused by delayed iPad 2 launch, in Q2 2011 again there were 9.25...

The “average app” has a better chance to generate downloads on “non-hyped” platforms.

These findings are taken from our new Smartphone App Market Monitor V.3.

Despite all the hype around the...

Online video.  It’s the death of TV, or so I’ve been told.  There’s only one problem though…I really love my TV.  And so do a lot of other people it seems.

A recent analysis of two of the largest over-the-top (OTT) video providers in the U.S. highlights this fact, and suggests that the days of the TV as the centerpiece of the living room are far from over.

According to