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Mobile Internet; the Second Internet Age? | |||
The convergence of the mobile phone and the Internet promise to change all our lives forever - the way we work, the way we buy goods, the way in which we communicate with each other. Mobile devices, still used almost exclusively for voice, are on the threshold of a wave of new service opportunities for businesses and for customers. The appeal of the mobile device as a business tool is not hard to understand. The average office workers will spend 20% of their waking day in front of the PC. A mobile device is with a person for 80% of their waking hours. And the mobile device is everywhere. By their own reckoning, mobile phone manufacturers expect to ship 400-450 million units this year. Strategy Analytics, a market analysis group, expects mobile handset manufacturers to ship more than one billion devices by 2003.
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