Research company comScore has published a study that looks at social networking access via mobile web browsers. It's found that 30.8% of smartphone users in the USA accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up from 22.5% year-on-year. Access to Facebook via a mobile browser has grown 112% in the past year, with Twitter experiencing a 347% jump.

In total, 11.1% of all US mobile phone users accessed a social networking site via their mobile browser, an increase of 4.6 percentage points from January 2009.

25.1 million mobile users accessed Facebook via their mobile browser in January 2010. MySpace attracted 11.4 million mobile users, while Twitter had 4.7 million mobile users in January. These figures are just calculated from mobile browsers and don't include almost 6 million mobile phone owners who access social networking exclusively through applications on their mobile phones.

Mark Bridge writes:

No-one really likes an anticlimax. That was my biggest complaint about the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. Plenty of potential, a nice new interface – but nothing much that wasn’t being done elsewhere.

Intel and Orange have announced an agreement that'll see Orange multimedia services on a number of mobile devices that include Intel's Atom processor and the new MeeGo software platform. These devices will range from smartphones to tablets and netbooks.

Yves Maitre, senior vice-president of devices for the Orange Group, said "75% of our customer base has yet to embrace the mobile internet. With the increasing number of phones and operating systems for customers to choose from, it is our role to make sure our customer’s journey into this richer mobile multimedia environment is simple and easy."

The number of business users accessing cloud-based applications from mobile devices will rise to more than 130 million by 2014, according to Juniper Research.

It says the Apple iPhone and Apple's App Store can take credit for boosting the market for connected enterprise apps, with the number of enterprise apps increasing and apps becoming more attractive.

While most cloud-based application revenue over the next five years is expected to come from enterprise applications, consumer applications will generate more than a quarter of the anticipated $9.5 billion (£5.9 billion) revenue by 2014.