“Many people (in Sweden) think it’s complicated (to Internet surf on their mobile phones) and they don’t know how much it costs,” the paper’s head of marketing Johan Othelius told DN.

Introducing the futuristic mobile phone that can buy your clothes for you
A revolutionary new mobile phone will soon be able to let shoppers snatch a photo of clothes they want before ordering them online.

Mobiles for the ‘world’s poorest’
As part of a UN programme to tackle poverty in rural Africa, 79 villages across 10 African countries will be hooked up to cellular networks.

It is hoped that the connections will help improve healthcare and education, as well as boosting the local economy.

A 2005 study showed that an increase of 10 mobile phones per 100 people could increase GDP growth by 0.6%.

Mobile Phones in Ethiopia
So, we spent a good part of a Thursday morning in Addis Ababa in this month of May – the month of surprises – talking to ordinary Addis Ababans and taking some pictures to get a sense of the prevalence of this technology. We visited the city’s cafes, souks, and work places and talked to taxi drivers, SIM card vendors, businessmen and businesswomen in Merkato, coffee exporters, and even gardeners. The pictures here show just a glimpse of what we found out. The city and the country are poised for an explosive growth in mobile phones.

Nokia-krav kan få dramatiske konsekvenser for telebranchen
Nokias topchef har netop luftet tanken om at gå Apple i bedene og tage sig betalt for den trafik, som deres nye tjenester vil generere i operatørernes netværk. Det kan få dramatiske konsekvenser for hele branchen, hvis Nokia får held med det, vurderer en teleanalytiker.

Skulle det komme så langt, så ender kunderne med at blive taberne i det spil. De bør være skeptiske overfor Nokias udmelding, for det er ikke godt for kunderne, hvis det udarter sig, så det bliver producenten, der leverer indholdet.

Betal busbilletten over mobilen
500 London-borgere farter netop nu billetløse rundt i den britiske hovedstad. De skal nemlig afprøve, hvordan alle senere vil kunne bruge mobiltelefonen til at betale for at tage med bussen, toget eller undergrundsbanen.

The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World… and what we can do about it.
The phones that are designed and marketed for the ‘developing world’ today aren’t data enabled, they have no browser or any ability to function as a traditional data device. We’re dumping hundreds of millions of devices into these regions that are essentially crippled – and their legacy (the average life span of a phone in Africa is many times that of it’s Western counterpart) will affect mobile internet usage in these regions throughout the next decade. Furthermore, in the small Kenyan village where I live it’s significantly less than 1 in 10 phones that can support the traditional ‘mobile Web’ experience, and it’s probably closer to 1 in 1000 phones that have ever successfully connected to the web.

Computeren er på vej ud og alt bliver mobilt
Antallet af solgte computere i Japan er faldet de seneste fire kvartaler, for der er ikke længere brug for dem. Man kan downloade musik direkte til MP3-afspilleren – udenom computeren. Man kan slutte digitalkameraet direkte til printeren eller tv’et, og film kan downloades direkte til tv’et. Computerspil er langt bedre på en spilkonsol. E-mail klares bedre med mobiltelefoner og PDA’er. Computeren er ganske enkelt overflødig for stadig flere mennesker.

Mobile takes the web back to the 90s
Does this mean that mobile internet is effectively 8 years behind the web as we know it today?

Certainly the content that can be delivered is basic. I am sure if we scour the industry we can still find some die-hard HTML coders to build these sites. I am sure designers can be prized away from Flash to build some basic 16 colour designs.

Mobile phone use increases tumor risk
The current study showed, according to an Israel newspaper, that people used mobile phone for more than 22 hours per month faced 50 percent increased risk for a parotid gland tumor.

Why The Mobile Web Had Such A Terrible Start
First attempts by mobile phone manufacturers to mobilize the web were a big disappointment for quite a number of reasons. In the fixed line world the web got an incubation time of at least a decade to grow, to be refined and to be fostered by researchers and students at universities before being used by the public who already had sufficiently capable notebooks, PCs and a reasonably priced connection to the Internet. In the mobile world, things were a lot different when first web browsers appeared on mobile phones around the year 2001.

JupiterResearch Finds Creating Better Browser Alternatives Would Stimulate Mobile Internet Adoption
“Browser alternatives such as widgets or applets, which are mini applications that allow for content to be easily accessed from a home screen or with just a few clicks, can meet consumer demands for quick access to information,” said David Schatsky, President of JupiterResearch. “The goal should be to engage the user through ease of operation so that accessing information in this manner will eventually become second nature.”

Nokia sees HD video on cellphones in a few years
Video recording on cellphones is set to reach high definition (HD) quality in a few years’ time, an executive at the world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday.

“It’s coming. Technically, we are a couple of years away,” Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanpera told Reuters in an interview. “It’s still a few years away.”

Google’s Android targets iPhone power
London’s role is to come up with brilliant new ways to use the internet on a mobile phone. European mobile internet may not be mass market yet, but users here are leagues ahead of their American cousins. Which makes the UK one of the best places to test new products and find software developers who understand the medium.

Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype?
Let’s cut to the bottom line: In terms of usability, iPhone blew away its two competitors. Its overall score in the usability tests was 4.6 out of 5. The HTC Touch was a distant second at 3.4, and the Nokia N95 scored 3.2.

“Testers were [typically] about twice as fast doing specific tasks on the iPhone, which is pretty remarkable,” Thornton said.

Phone revolution makes Africa upwardly mobile
“This phone has become my office,” he added, smiling as he held up a Nokia registering a full bar of signal. Mr Gakungi and others like him are helping to drive a wireless revolution that has made Africa the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market. At the start of 2000, there were eight million subscribers in Africa. According to a report by Informa, a telecoms analyst, there are now more than 100 million mobiles in use on the continent — one for every nine Africans.

35% of U.S. Tweens Own a Mobile Phone, According to Nielsen
According to Nielsen, 5% of tweens access the Internet over their phone each month. While 41% of tween mobile Internet users say they do so while commuting or traveling (to school, for example), mobile content such as the Internet is also a social medium for this audience: 26% of tween mobile Internet users say they access the web while at a friend’s house and 17% say they do so at social events.

The impact of the mobile phone
What was first considered a luxury item is now a necessity in our everyday lives. The mobile phone ranks right up there with the wallet, as items that I can’t leave home without. And if I did, well, I would feel something amiss and it would completely throw my day off.

The mobile phone also lets me do a lot more than make phone calls, play games and take photos. For example, OCBC Bank in Singapore has turned the mobile phone into a two-factor authentication device for Internet banking transactions. Newer mobile phones are also starting to incorporate GPS navigation, and wireless payment is emerging.

Mobile Manufacturers – Obsessed by cool?
I have the dubious pleasure of sitting in on a lot of focus groups with mobile users and I am always surprised at how many users want and need a phone that is robust. For example – many still treasure their Nokia 6310s and go all nostalgic when they talk about its reliability.

Festival for mobile phone films in Japan
Films made entirely on mobile phones are competing in Japan’s First Pocket Film Festival this weekend, with 48 titles in the running for the first prize of 500,000 yen (£2,200).

Ask the IntoMobile Magic 8-Ball – What is the future of mobile phones?
The UI is the future, and manufacturers are starting to realize that fact. Nokia is going with a touch-based S60. Motorola just bought a 50% stake in UIQ. Samsung has Croix. Apple has the iPhone. And therein lies the key to why the iPhone is such a success. The user interface on the iPhone is un-rivaled. Sure, it’s lacking in the hardware department, but Apple will eventually get it together and offer the same hardware specs that we’ve come to expect from high-end phones. But, the UI. Wow, the UI is incredible.

Ny portal giver det mobile overblik
Folkene bag MobStart mener nemlig, at portalen snart vil være sidestykket til Jubii og Yahoo – bare på mobiltelefonen. MobStart fokuserer specielt på hjemmesider, der er tilpasset det mobile internet.

Fuld fart på de mobile portaler
Både Sonofon og TDC jubler over deres respektive portaler, E-go og Fly.
»Inden for det sidste år er antallet af brugere steget med over 70 procent,« siger Peter Berg, der er markedsdirektør hos Sonofon.
Den markante fremgang har bragt E-gos besøgstal op på 192.000 unikke brugere, der skaber 1,5 millioner sidevisninger om måneden.
Hos TDC er der samme begejstring for portalen Fly.
»Vores opfattelse er, at Fly er en af de største mobile portaler. Vi har i øjeblikket 225.000 unikke besøgende om måneden, og vi ser en konstant vækst,« siger Morten Hother Sørensen, der er markedsdirektør i TDC Mobil Norden.

Apple trimmer iPhone til forretningsfolk
Indtil videre er det især inkarnerede Apple-entusiater og gadget-freaks, der har kastet sig over Apple-hittet iPhone. Men nu satser Apple på at udvide kredsen, og lancerer en erhvervsløsning, der skal gøre iPhone til forretningsmandens følgesvend.

Mobiler der stråler mindre
SonyEricsson S500i, SonyEricsson W580 og Samsung SGH-i600 er gode valg, hvis du ønsker en mobiltelefon med lav stråling.

A bank in every pocket?
Leonard Waverman of the London Business School has estimated that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country leads to an extra half a percentage point of growth in GDP per person.

As mobile phones have spread, a new economic benefit is coming into view: using them for banking, and so improving access to financial services, not just telecoms networks. Pioneering m-banking projects in the Philippines, Kenya and South Africa show the way. These “branchless” schemes typically allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash through a mobile operator’s airtime-resale agents, and send money to other people via text messages that can be exchanged for cash by visiting an agent.

Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
Similarly, surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cellphone users in North America use their phones to surf the Web more than once a month, while 70 percent of computer users view Web sites every day.

“The user experience has been a disaster,” says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.

According to Informa Telecoms & Media, as of the end of September, 59 countries had mobile penetration of over 100%, while almost half that figure, 27, had penetration under 10%.

Gratis musik fra Nokia
Alle, der køber en musiktelefon fra Nokia vil fra andet halvår 2008 kunne få musiklysten styret. Man vil kunne hente lige så meget musik, man orker, og musikken kan man beholde, når de 12 måneders prøveperiode udløber.

Produktet hedder Nokia Comes With Music, og går ud på, at kunderne kan teste, høre og hente kunstnere som U2, Eminem, Rolling Stones og salig Luciano Pavarotti i ét år.

Aftalen træder i kraft i andet halvår 2008 og gælder musik-mobiltelefonerne fra Nokia, som er verdens førende selskab på området. Muligheden for gratis at downloade musik ligger i forlængelse af Nokias “Comes With Music”-tilbud.

With 0.09% share, iPhone rules web usage on mobile phones
Users of the Apple’s handset surf the web more than any other device owners. According to ComputerWorld, iPhone’s Safari has grabbed a 0.09% share, which might not seem like much but when you put it in perspective – it actually is.

Net Applications statistikker er baseret på besøg fra 40.000 hjemmesider, som selskabet samarbejder med.

Nokia N95 dumper i norsk mobiltest
Det norske forbrugerråds test af 39 mobiltelefoner placerer Nokias teknologiske flagskib N95 i bund på holdbarhed og batteri. Sony Ericsson topper testen.

Jaguar goes iPhone; Launches multimedia magazine for Apple’s handset
Great brands should stick together and Jaguar knows so. Hence, they’ve decide to hop into the iPhone wave and prepare the special and industry’s first “multimedia magazine” for the iPhone owners.

Half the top selling books are written on mobile phones in Japan
While we all know when it comes to mobile technology, Japan is THE most advanced market on the planet, we were shocked to learn that half of the top ten selling works of fiction in H1 2007 were composed on mobile phones.

For the first time, Japan’s fiction bestseller list is dominated by books published, read and, in several cases, written on mobile telephones, most of them by young women in their 20s. The rise of the “mobile novel” has prompted an anxious debate about the nature of literature and the future of reading in Japan.

Tag universitetsuddannelsen via mobiltelefonen
En mobil forelæsning fungerer ganske simpelt ved, at en powerpoint-præsentation vises på skærmen, mens lærerens stemme afspilles.