The mobile web is dead….the real web is the mobile web….we’ve heard it often enough.
Whatever side you pick it doesn’t matter. Big corporations still move
into the mobile web space. Today Cablevision announced, that their web portala for OPtimum Online is now available on mobile devices. Optimum.net is ready to pick up a few of optimum online’s 2.5 million clients and allows the users to check emails, watch local news or weather and IO TV listings.

I guess I don’t have to say it again, but the mobile web is here
It just doesn’t fit in today’s news, b/c it’s recession and nobody is allowed to announce good news.

Interesting…the mobile web is not even really here…and people already talking about Mobile Web games.  Mobile web games is definitely a super hot topic and not even on the radar of most magazines and blogs.

With the growing speed of  3G and UMTS as well as better mobile phones, it can be a very interesting way to promote interactive web games to users around the world.

The web is further going mobile. Here a few facts:
Opera Mini users viewed more than 5.7 billion pages in November. Since
October, page views have gone up 12.1 percent. Since November 2007,
this number is up 303 percent.
Facebook is also successful in Europe, where other social networks
such as Nasza Klasa in Poland and vKontakte in Russia and Ukraine are
consistently the top sites in their respective countries.

Data
transfers also increased in line with page views. In November, Opera
Mini users generated more than 82.9 million megabytes of data for
operators worldwide. Since October, the data consumed went up by 12.5
percent. Data in Opera Mini is compressed 90 percent, on average. If
this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over
829 million megabytes of data in November.
Since November 2007, data
traffic is up 463 percent.

Yankee Group reviewed mobile consumer-facing sites in several categories: user, device, network, design and effectiveness.

Here are the results:

Financial services mobile Web sites ranked best overall, with only
two sites scoring below 50. Bank of America’s score of 67 topped the
financial services category; two regional banks—U.S. Bancorp and First
Interstate Bank—tied for second place.

Air travel mobile Web
sites are inconsistent in offering help to Web users on the go.
American Airlines topped the category with a score of 65 for
prioritized same-day information.

Shopping mobile Web sites
provide a broad array of services with variable mobile experiences.
Edmunds received the highest overall score in this category, earning a
grade of 67 for making checking car prices simple. Amazon.com and Best
Buy provide the broadest shopping experiences, with Amazon.com
prioritizing and marketing mobile products over traditional products.

Source

Businessweek has an interesting article about Nokia out today. The story pretty much
explains where Nokia is and wants to head in the future. 

It’s not really worth to summarize the article, however I am not sure if Nokia will be able to
fight the current Iphone and Gphone craziness.

Sometimes it is not about market share, but marketing. The US market is still important
and Nokia is having a hard time. However with the smart people in the company and acquisitions like Navteq, there is much room for improvement.

Will be exciting to see what’s going to happen with the new Nokia generation.

Interesting design over at Openpeak. A telephone, messaging, mobile web device for consumers at home.

I really like the device. I myself would love to have a smaller device in my hand, instead of running around with the laptop all day
Found via Mediauser

A study held by Innofact AG shows that 53% of Germans Don’t Use The Mobile Web B/C it is to expensive. 53% don’t use it, b/c there is no interest or they don’t see any value.
15% say, there current mobile phone doesn’t support the mobile web. 11% say it is
too complicated (e.g. too slow).
5% are looking forward for a mobile with mobile web capabilities.

Interesting stats over at Headstand Media. Not sure about the source of the stats, but pretty interesting to see that even AOL Mobile has a fair amount of traffic:

“

Top Browsed:

• Web Search: 14.8 M
• Weather: 14.2 M
• News: 13.6 M
• Sports News: 12.1 M
• Entertainment News: 10 M

Top Search Brand Reach

• Google: 9.3 M
• Yahoo: 5.3 M
• Current Mobile Network: 3.7 M
• MSN/Windows Live Search: 1.5 M
• AOL Mobile: .8 M

“

IBM - New Software and Services For Mobile Devices

Nielsen research just released that Americans and Brits show high interest in mobile olympics coverage.

According to the research “nearly 45% of US and 31% of UK mobile video users will be part of the mobile audience for the 2008 Olympic Games”.

The data also shows that track and field and gymnastics both rank among the
most popular Olympic events mobile video users want to watch on their
phones.

Found via dailywireless