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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.

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.

In the 2006 survey only 38 per cent of teens used their handset to listen to music; now 71 per cent of teenagers are using their mobiles as a portable mp3 player. 80 percent of teens in Singapore, Italy and Austria listened to music in this way, though teens in Japan and Finland listen to music on their mobiles the least.

Teens are now using their mobiles to simultaneously access information, communicate and have fun. The teen mobile phone market is competitive and lucrative; but it is clear that by developing phones that deliver an engaging user experience across applications, such as texting, listening to mp3s and playing games, mobile brands can attract a new teen audience to their devices.

So what is bigger than "local" applications space? The answer is Web/browser-based applications space. And what is bigger than Web/browser applications space? The answer is voice space.

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).

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.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million units in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc.  Sales of mobile phones in Western Europe decreased 16.4 per cent from the first quarter of 2007, the first decline in this region since Gartner began tracking the mobile devices market in 2001.

SAN FRANCISCO--Marketers convened here this week to figure out how best to reach teens on the Internet. The answer: It's all about the mobile phone.

The iPhone is just the beginning of the all-in-one device. Uses of mobile devices will expand to include all kinds of bar code applications and prepaid debit card payment methods,

But, he said, mobile phone providers likely won't succeed as the entertainment leaders for the phone, despite their efforts to sell ringtones, games, and music. Other companies like Apple, Google, and Yahoo will be more effective at "side-loading" the cell phone with services.

We get into constant problems with some prosecutor who subpoenas information we don’t want to give them, and we resist it. Which is why we don’t fully operate in China. Our argument is that information is not available in your domain. So countries are now trying to rewrite their laws to say this information cannot be available anywhere on the Internet.

Q: What about mobile? Schmidt: Our wireless initiative was a perfect outcome. It was the cost of an outcome. I am on the board of Apple. Last night I was in Palo Alto and there was a line outside. It shows the device is a step forward. IPhone’s competitors all have dec A phone is GPS, a camera, a computer, and a browser. The Phone is tehfirst one with a really functional browser. We show full ads, so that is a huge for revenues/ The new category of apps that have not come out yet really is a breakthrough. One winner of the Android apps, it looks around, names the buildings it sees and tells you what is happening inside of them. That is a really interesting product. In mobile there are a lot od product that have that WOW factor, because of the use of GPS. I think all the most interesting next-generation social apps will be mobile.

Q: [Sam Whitmore asks if Google does any work for the government related to the Patriot Act] Schmidt: Regarding the Patriot Act or any of the three-letter organizations, absolutely not. We do provide the federal government with some search and other services through our [government] sales group.

According to the Pew Internet and Americal life product and their recently released study, mobile phones will be the primary way people will get online by the year 2020.

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.

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.

What the advertiser failed to recognize, Chernin said, is that the MySpace homepage has as many viewers every day as the SuperBowl has once a year. (Of course, there’s a good argument that MySpace visitors aren’t quite as engaged with the content as SuperBowl viewers are.)

Mobile is attractive because of its scale. It “is by far the most penetrated device on earth,” he said. “So it’s this enormous distribution platform, but by definition you’re not going to be watching two-hour movies. It’s going to be interesting to see people develop uniquely mobile content.” It will take the medium a long time to develop, he said and predicted that in two years, the industry will still be trying to figure mobile out.

、不況が原因でLTEのグローバル展開が遅行するといったシナリオはあまりないんじゃないか、と考えています。むしろネガティブではなく、ポジティブに動く要因となる可能性すらあるのです。

ネクスト・ビリオン市場は、インターネットやメディアの成熟度が低いですから、そういう意味では“モバイル”の新しいサービスが、古いメディアやビジネスモデルと競合しにくい。日本市場のような段階的な進化ではなく、（サービスやアプリケーションが）「順番とばし」で普及していくことも考えられますね。

Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux.