Mobile internet set for take-off?
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| On the face of things there is little reason to be confident that mobile
| internet will ever fully catch on with consumers. It's expensive, awkward
| to use, and lacks the content and functionality of a traditional PC-based
| browser.
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| The Dublin-based firm was the first Irish website to use the dot-mobi
| domain, offering an online booking service for mobile phone users.
| Cavanagh, who set up the company with Frank Friel, said mobile operators
| and handset manufacturers held the key to improving usability.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/18/mobile_internet/
See links at the bottom. Microsoft is nowhere to be seen (around 5% market
share). At least they try...
Microsoft launches new-look MSN for mobile phones
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| The number of U.S. mobile Internet users is expected to more than triple
| to 110 million in 2011 from the current 32 million, according to
| Sterling Market Intelligence and Opus Research.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070618:MTFH36585_2007-06-18_04-01-24_N15336808&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/3x2chg
Related:
70 percent of smartphones use Symbian
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| At 3GSM it became clear that 70 percent of all smartphones use Symbian.
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| Linux accounts for 16.9 percent of the smartphone market and only
| 4.6 percent uses Microsoft Windows Mobile.
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http://www.dvhardware.net/article17134.html
Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010
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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/
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