Over 100 million U.S. cell phones will be web enabled by 2011, almost double from 2 yrs. ago, and experts predict that by 2013 over half of all phones in the U.S. will be web enabled. The .mobi is recognized as short for the mobile web, or websites viewed on mobile devices. Read more...
Absa launched it's mobile site in May and is using it to appeal to the South African youth. It offers downloadable music tracks as well as games and Absa reports that the site's daily downloads peaked in June at 60 000, with 200 000 unique visitors. Read more...
From this morning you will be able to use your phone to check if a council hall can be hired, where the bike hire scheme stops are throughout the city and what traffic accidents are causing problems, or find out what is happening in the city. Read more...
Australian based my247.mobi officially launched their Global Guide to Going Out at an exclusive TechCrunch post-conference after-party following a day of hotbed mobile discussion and innovation at the mobile 2.0 Europe conference in Barcelona. Read more...
Residents of three London boroughs have gained access to their local council services via mobile-optimised websites, after a new scheme called Mylomo went live on Monday. Read more...
As Internet traffic on mobile grows, brands and ad agencies are realizing that they need to advertise on mobile. In developed markets such as the US, smartphone shipments are expected to surpass feature-phone shipments in 2011... Read more...
This article highlights the fact that the Web is going increasingly mobile with more and more low-cost devices like feature phones becoming increasingly Web-enabled to appeal to those who cannot afford smartphone devices. Read more...
Widespread ownership of mobiles is only a fairly recent development in China, but consumers there have fully embraced the technology and in some ways are using it more robustly than their American and European counterparts... Read more...
