I'm sure I'm nowhere near the first to remark on this, but it has recently hit me on several levels. CNN just reported a moment ago that American newspapers are in severe trouble, partly because of the economic downturn yes, which means less people buy newspapers, but also less advertisers h...

The Mobile World Congress has just ended in Barcelona and the tech press is full of stories about how the internet is now headed to a pocket near you. There were big stars in Barcelona peddling the future is mobile story, from the rapper Will I Am telling of how music is going mobile, to the actor K...

We do an annual look into the size of the mobile industry here at the Communities Dominate blog. So its time to review the growth of mobile and report on the technology that has 4 Billion subscribers. Recognizing that the world has about 6.6 Billion people, it means there is a mobile phones su...

Caught a great article at the BBC news site about gaming and other mass media, where they quoted Activision CEO Mike Griffith as saying "Video games are poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead." Thank you to our friend Fredrik Wengelin for finding the article...

The start of the year 2009 marks the tenth year anniversary for Nokia becoming the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer. In that time the mobile phone has amassed an amazing array of abilities. While doing so, the mobile phone has also been able to become the focal point for digital converg...

World renowned mobile commentator, Tomi Ahonen has just sent me a new report titled 7th Mass Media in 2008 which complements his recent book “Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media� and looks at the size of the mobile industry in 2008. I had the pleasure of meeting Tomi at the Future of Mobile conferen...

what's the 911, the 404 or the 459? So if someone one says you are 'book' do not take it as an insult. It does not   mean you are a nerd - quite the opposite in fact. It means you are 'cool' - derived from the fact that when using predictive   texting on a mobile phone, this is the first s...

what's the 911, the 404 or the 459? So if someone one says you are 'book' do not take it as an insult. It does not   mean you are a nerd - quite the opposite in fact. It means you are 'cool' - derived from the fact that when using predictive   texting on a mobile phone, this is the first s...

Trillion with a T. That is 1,000 Billion. Or one million-million. To write it out, that is 1,000,000,000,000. One followed by twelve zeros. Its a big big number. And when you add the dollar sign, that one Trillion dollars - that is a monster of a number. And we now celebrate the newest Trillion doll...

Mobile content. You might think of it as the news alert that arrives on your phone. Or the videogame that you may download to your phone, or the vote that you made in American Idol, or the MP3 song that you listen to on the MP3 player on your phone. Yes, cameraphone pictures, mobile blogs, user-gene...