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Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform. Taptu calls the former "the Mobile Touch Web," which it defines as "Web sites created for mobile touchscreen devices, with finger-friendly layouts and lightweight pages that are fast to load over cellular networks."

Taptu estimates that there are 326,000 Mobile Touch Web sites worldwide, which they say compares to 148,000 iPhone apps in the App Store and 24,000 apps in the Android market. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_app_or_browser-based_site.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';Taptu expects the browser-based mobile web market to grow much faster than the app market.

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It was a privilege for us to join forces with MTV helping to enable the “Hope for Haiti”-concert with the greatest digital distribution of any televised fundraising event in history. More information on the concert and it's broad digital spread can be found here.

BTW, don’t forget: For your donations pls. go to: www.hopeforhaitinow.org

All proceeds will benefit Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities: Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation, and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation.

Despite falling voice revenue, Informa Telecoms & Media is predicting that total annual mobile services revenue will exceed $1 trillion globally in 2013.

The latest Global Mobile Forecasts report also indicates that data revenue will account for more than $330 billion that year, up from $208 billion in 2008. Increase in consumer use of mobile broadband services can be credited for the predicted uptake in data revenue.

“These figures indicate that the quality and coverage of a mobile operator’s network remains an important differentiator,” said Nicholas Jotischky, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, London.

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Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the dominant web access device worldwide by 2013 according to a new forecast issued by research firm Gartner. Based on Gartner's PC installed base forecast, the total number of PCs in use should top 1.78 billion units in 2013--by that time, the combined installed base of smartphones and browser-equipped enhanced phones is expected to exceed 1.82 billion units, and the gap will continue to grow in the years to follow. Gartner adds that mobile web users are typically prepared to make fewer clicks on a website than PC users, contending that most websites not yet optimized for smaller device screens will need to be rebuilt and their content reformatted.

Looking even further ahead, Gartner anticipates that by 2015, context will be as critical to mobile consumer services and relationships as search engines are to the traditional web. Gartner argues that context will provide the key to delivering hyper-personalized experiences across smartphones in the same way search enables web users to organize information and services, adding context will center on observing patterns, particularly location, presence and social interactions. Gartner also notes that while search is predicated on pulling information from the web, context-enriched services will typically prepopulate or push information to users.

For more on the Gartner forecast:
- read this release

Congratulations: Online marketplace eBay Inc. took first place in the competition for the 2009 Mobile Retailer of the Year award! We are very proud to serve eBay mobile solutions since 2003.

For the whole story, pls. check out Giselle Tsirulnik's excellent article for Mobile Commerce Daily.