Mobile research company On Device Research has released a report that looks at the number of web users who only access the internet through their mobile phones.

While around 25% of UK mobile internet users don’t ever use a PC for web access, that figure rises to 38% for Chinese mobile web users. In rural areas of China, the figure is even higher, with 45% of rural Chinese mobile web users admitting to being mobile only.

Telefónica Digital and Mozilla have revealed plans to create a new mobile platform. It’s called the Open Web Device platform and will use HTML5 standards to deliver a smartphone-like device without premium pricing.

A Qualcomm chipset is currently being used for hardware development.

Google and a number of other online businesses have been criticised after taking advantage of ‘cookies’ that apparently bypassed the security settings in the Safari web browser used by Apple computers and iPhones.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the specially-designed web code enabled users to be ‘tracked’ as they visited different web sites despite this type of monitoring being blocked as a default setting on the browser.

Web site building and content management specialist DotNetNuke Corp. has announced a licensing agreement with 51Degrees.mobi.

DotNetNuke is going to integrate the 51Degrees.mobi Device Description Repository into all editions of DotNetNuke 6, simplifying the development of mobile websites for all DotNetNuke users.

Virgin Media has announced financial results for the final quarter of 2011 and for the full year.

Revenue was up 3% to £4 billion for the year, while annual operating income was up 67.8% to £540 million. The company revealed its first annual profit with net income of £76m for the year.