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The objective of Android -- as with Google's participation in the US government spectrum auction earlier this year -- is to move the entire mobile industry forward by opening it up. If Google succeeds, on the shoulders of the iPhone's early success, it will benefit consumers and, ultimately, Google.

More than any other single event the launch of the iPhone last year catalyzed the mobile market, which had been in state of sleepy evolution for years. But the Apple device kicked everyone in the rear and kicked the market into high gear. We can effectively date the mobile internet like this: "BI" and "AI" (before iPhone, after iPhone).

Perhaps an even bigger problem is that both Facebook and MySpace fail to offer an optimized version for Japanese handsets. Millions of Japanese are accustomed to using one thumb, a dialpad and a jog dial on their phones when accessing the web during their commutes to school and work. In this country, the mobile web is bigger than the PC web.

Offering a country-specific version before a local copycat beats you to it is an obvious key factor for success, and not only in Japan.

Practical experience from the Japanese web industry has shown that partnering up with a local company is the best way to diminish these dangers

User-generated content ranging from social networking to dating and personal content delivery services is expected to grow about 563 percent from a $1.1 billion market today to at least $7.3 billion in 2013

Mobile social networking use will increase from 54 million users today to nearly 730 million in 2013 with the bulk of those users coming from Asia.

I should mention that mobile search has been growing quite a bit, and of course you may have heard about our partnership that we've launched in this past quarter with NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Japan is a very strong market for mobile search because of the devices, because of the culture it is just a really tremendous environment. People do many, many mobile searches. We have a robust advertising market there for mobile search. We are certainly optimistic that many of these advances which may initiate in Japan will carry over to the rest of the world as the devices and culture catch up.

Mobile thoughts: Sergey Brin is asked to riff on mobile: revenue per query will vary from market to market. iPhone users do some 30x queries compared to others, though no comments yet on the iPhone 3G. Later an analyst asked whether there would be a total separate marketplace for mobile. Brin: Once you get these phones with capable browsers, there’s less reason to separate mobile and regular ads.

Hampshire, UK – 5th August 2008: A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1bn mobile subscribers will "pay by mobile" for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks), tickets, TV, user-generated content, infotainment and games – in fact any content bought by phone and delivered to the phone.

• Users are forecast to make at least two payment transactions per month for digital goods by 2013• Nearly half of all mobile phone users will have bought digital goods at least once with their phones by 2013 • The two leading regions (Western Europe and Far East & China) will account for over 50% of the total digital goods gross transaction market value by 2013.

　サイバーエージェントは7月30日、同社が運営するブログサービス「Ameba（アメブロ）」でオフィシャルブログを展開する芸能人や有名人を対象に、定期的にクチコミネタを配信するサービスを7月中に開始すると発表した。

any companies need to implement mobile sales force automation solutions so I see services like SoonR for small and medium companies becoming more and more important. 2009 will be a breakthrough year for these kind of services.

Many companies need to implement mobile sales force automation solutions so I see services like SoonR for small and medium companies becoming more and more important. 2009 will be a breakthrough year for these kind of services.

mobile SEO services and mobile search marketing will become as important for brands as their internet SEO.

　ケータイの今後の進化について辻村氏は、「一言でいうとインターネットのケータイ化」と表現する。

進化の方向性として、「ブロードバンド化」と「リアルとサイバーの融合」、「グローバル化」の3つの軸を示す。

2010年度にLTEを入れたいと考えている。そのとき、手のひらサイズのコンピュータが、FTTHと同じくらいの速度になる

携帯電話のブラウザ上でのコンテンツ流通市場が1兆円を超えたことは、世界に類をみない出来事です。モバイルコンテンツは日本の誇れるビジネスモデルといえるのではないでしょうか。

07年の市場規模は、1兆1464億円（前年比123％）となり、他のコンテンツ産業が苦戦する中、モバイルコンテンツ産業は右肩上がりで成長しています。

　着信音系とゲームで6割のシェアを占めています。そのほか新しいコンテンツとして伸びているのが電子書籍系で221億円（前年比320％）と老舗の待受系（227億円）に迫る市場規模に成長しています。

n the U.S., 28.4 percent of subscribers now have a 3G device vs. the five largest countries in Europe, which have a combined penetration rate of 28.3 percent.

Within Europe, Italy has the highest 3G penetration at 38.3 percent; Spain comes in second place with 37.2 percent. The U.K. has a penetration rate of 19.9 percent, and Germany has 23.9 percent and France has 12.6 percent.

The U.S. also eclipses the five European countries when it comes to number of users with a 3G device. The U.S. has 64.2 million vs. Europe, which has 63.4 million.

I think this is the beginning of true "always-connected" life-style, which people in this industry have been talking about several years but was not be able to achieve. Apple came into this wireless market in 2007, and suddenly became the leader by enabling this new life-style with iPhone and App Store.