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I must give a disclaimer and say that I don’t know Dr. Joseph Coughlin at Age Lab, but after reading up on his thoughts about mobile I will reach out to him.

M:Metrics is reporting that mobile search is up 68% for the month of June, 2008.  Penetration is still only in the 9% range of all subscribers, but we know that is rapidly climbing as well – driven in large part by the success of the iPhone.

A few weeks ago I hypothesized that mobile social networking was a case of style over substance.  A new report from ABI Research weighs in on the subject and they are a bit more bullish than I might be.

Continuing from my previous two posts regarding open access (Post 1 and Post 2), I hope it is becoming obvious that we are heading towards an increasingly fragmented future. Microsoft just announced that they are opening an applications store to rival Apple. Google is doing the same. The carriers have their own.

Some interesting news from Seattle last week. T-Mobile is ditching their traditional closed software platform for a more open platform that is open to all (or almost all) developers. That's sounds great!......or is it?

Strategy Analytics, a international consulting firm, has already released a reporton what to expect in the 2009 mobile market space.

Last I checked it’s still August, but I guess it’s never too early to get a jump on the competition!

Their conclusions for mobile in 2009? Essentially more of the same.

Just saw an interesting thread on the evolution / creation of Web 3.0 Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center. I think he hits on some interesting enabling technologies, but I don’t draw the same conclusions he does about the significance and nature of what those technologies will enable.

A recent report finds that less than 24% of mobile internet users visit social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace. By contrast, the Internet application that most users found most interesting was… email. The original PDF report can be found here.

WirelessWeek is reporting today that a judge is allowing the lawsuit against T-Mobile by disgruntled subscribers to proceed. The subscribers are fighting charges against unsolicited text messages because they have no viable way of avoiding the charges.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/T-Mobile-Subscribers-Sue-Text-Messages.aspx

I have been thinking about mobile advertising quite a bit of late. In my last blog I shared news of the mobile Internet reaching critical mass.

Within that report was a graphic showing the Motorola RAZR as the most popular device for mobile Internet browsing. This news got me to thinking about how the mobile internet is funded, then to thinking about mobile advertising in general, and before long I was thinking about the basic problems with mobile banner ads. Anyhow, follow with me on this one: