Mobile Web - growing at rapid speed

Great article today in USA today about the Mobile web: Race is on for Mobile Web’s pot of gold.

Here a few quotes:

And growing all the time. The global population expands by three people a second, according to International Data Base, an arm of the U.S. Census. In the same second, 38 wireless devices will be sold. At that rate, within 24 months another billion devices will be added to the 2.5 billion currently in circulation.

Meantime, the “mobile Web” — shorthand for browsing the Internet with a mobile device — is gaining steam. Pushing the trend is a flood of new smartphones and other wireless devices that make surfing on the run a snap. “In five years, the wireless Internet will be bigger than the desktop Internet,” predicts Rajeev Chand, a senior wireless analyst at Rutberg & Co., an investment bank in San Francisco.”

Entire article here

January 11, 2008