Mobile Internet Use Greatest Growth Area

Mobile internet use is growing while the number of people going online via a PC is slowing, analyst firm Nielsen Online has found.

Some 7.3m people accessed the net via their mobile phones, during the second and third quarters of 2008.

This is an increase of 25% compared to a growth of just 3% for the PC-based net audience - now more than 35m.

It also found that the mobile net audience was younger and searched for different things.

Most Internet Users: China Overtakes the USA

Well that sure is a milestone and symbolic of the increasing power of China, but I'll be impressed when there is a chinese Google or Facebook. America (and I'm not American) is still the powerhouse of ideas from Silicon Valley to Hollywood and not to forget that marvel the iPhone!

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iPhone Boosts Mobile Searches Fantastically

Google's logs show that more searches are coming from the iPhone than any other mobile device. How much more? Fifty times more. Google's Vic Gundotra told the Financial Times that "We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again".

This is to be expected. The iPhone makes the web easy to use on a mobile device, and every customer has a bundled data plan. In the US, AT&T says that iPhone users burn through double the data of other customers.

It also shows the growth of mobile search, and the potential revenues for Google, something of which the search giant is fully aware.

Thinks: Must get an iPhone