Annual Mobile Application Downloads to Hit 20 billion by 2014, According to Juniper Research, as acrossair Takes the Gold Award for Mobile Apps

HAMPSHIRE, England--(Business Wire)--
New market projections from Juniper Research have shown that the number of
mobile application downloads will approach almost 20 billion per annum by 2014.
The increasing deployment of app stores targeted at mass market handsets, allied
to enhancements in storefront interfaces and an ever increasing array of titles
appealing to wider demographics have been the main factors driving this market.

The Mobile Applications research found that the remarkable success of the App
Store - which passed 1 billion downloads in April - has led a raft of vendors,
OS providers and operators to launch their own storefronts, with more poised to
launch over the coming months.

Meanwhile, Juniper Research has announced its first Future Mobile Awards for
Mobile Applications. The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that
Juniper believes have made significant progress within their sector during the
previous year, and are poised to make considerable market impact in the future.

Gold Future Mobile Award for acrossair

Juniper`s first Gold Award for Mobile Apps goes to acrossair for their ingenious
augmented reality app, "Nearest Tube", developed for the iPhone 3GS. Co-Founder
of acrossair, Chetan Damani says; "We are extremely pleased to have been awarded
the Gold award for Mobile Apps by Juniper Research, a number of late nights went
in to creating this application and it`s rewarding for the whole team to be
recognised for the work they put in by an organisation such as Juniper.Everyone
in the technology landscape has heard of Juniper Research and it`s a great
accolade for all our techies and designers in the team to receive a Gold award
for our nearest tube app."

Tapulous Takes Silver

Meanwhile, the Silver Award was given to Tapulous, the developer behind the
highly successful `Tap Tap Revenge` and its recently published sequel, `Tap Tap
Revenge 2`.

Juniper Research assesses the current and future status of the mobile
applications market based on interviews, case studies and analysis from
representatives of some of the leading organisations in the growing mobile
applications industry.

Mobile Apps Whitepaper and further details of the study `Mobile Applications &
Apps Stores: Business models, Opportunities & Forecasts 2009-2014` can be freely
downloaded from the Juniper Research website.

Juniper Research
John Levett
+44(0)1256-830002
john.levett@juniperresearch.com

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