According to research collated by ComScore over the last year, mobile Internet use has now proliferated to the extent where it can no longer be seen as a niche activity. The magic number in the pile of data is daily use, which denotes routine and actual usefulness as opposed to novelty value this figure rose by 107% from 10.8 million daily users to 22.4 million from January 2008 to January of this year. (more…)

Remember a couple of years ago when Apple made such a big deal about the band, U2’ s association with the iPod? Remember the shiny, black device that came with the band’s signatures on the back and their latest album loaded onto it? It seemed like a marriage made in heaven, didn’t it? Well, unfortunately I have to break the news that the association between the self proclaimed ‘world’s biggest band’ and the world’s biggest mobile device has ended in divorce and, even worse, there’s another device in the picture.
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Anyone with even a passing interest in the mobile market knows that Apple is pretty much in charge at the minute. However, people might not have suspected by how much. It turns out that Apple currently controls just over two thirds of the mobile web traffic, at 66.61 percent. Its competitors, on the other hand, have little more than a foothold.
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It’s heartening/sickening (delete as appropriate) to see that even in these times of increased economic hardship, not everybody is struggling to make ends meet. It appears that there are some amongst us still willing to spend big, big and pointlessly. An Australian jewellery designer named Peter Aloisson has created a $2.5 million iPhone – yes you read the amount right.
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One of the more interesting nuggets thrown up by this week’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona is the announcement that Vodafone and search engine minnow, Opera, are to team up to create a mobile browser aimed at lower end mobile handsets. It’s essentially a new version of the Opera Mini mobile browser that will offer fully functional browsing, even on phones with systems as low-end as Java. The pages will be compressed by up to 90 percent making them to be viewable on even very budget phones and allowing fast browsing even in areas with slow network speeds.
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After Verizon Wireless and RIM (Research in Motion) spent the better part of two years developing it, hopes were high for the Blackberry Storm. Some at both companies even dared to believe that it could compete with the iPhone. Now however, as the new device deals with a reputation that is plummeting rapidly, it seems that was too much to hope for.

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Towards the end of 2007 Google unleashed Android, an operating system for mobile phones. 15 months later, the first phone to run on Android, the Samsung G1, is on the market and many more from companies like Sony and Samsung are expected to follow this.
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Just as Palm gears up to launch what by all accounts is a fairly impressive new SmartPhone, another runs into trouble. Orange are believed to be on the verge of removing the Blackberry Bold from its range, due to persistent issues.
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Over the past few months we’ve been telling you all about the imminent arrival of Palm into the SmartPhone market. Palm are essentially betting the survival of the company as we know it on their new device which will be premiering at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Up to now the reporting on this has been pretty much all conjecture, but now we’re finally in a position to reveal some actual details.
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In a move no doubt inspired by Apple’s ‘App Store,’ Palm have launched an online store from which users are able to buy various kinds of software for their Palm handsets. They’ve, slightly unimaginatively, called it ‘Software Store’ though it seems to be a pretty comprehensive service, boasting over 5,000 distinct software applications and games all purchasable from and usable on Palm devises.

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