Mark Bridge writes:
Mobile World Congress is over for another year. Also gone is the mobile industry’s sudden obsession with public transport and student protests in Barcelona. But away from the local news, what’s been going on?
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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.
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Mobile game business Moblyng has closed down, according to a report on VentureBeat.com. The company produced HTML5 games for mobile devices.
California-based Moblyng launched as ‘FlipTrack’ in 2007, before changing its business plan and moving into gaming.
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Mark Bridge writes:
This time of year sees many pundits from within the mobile industry doing their best to predict events that’ll grab headlines in the next 12 months. In fact, we’ll be offering our own predictions in a couple of special podcasts lined up in the next few days.
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The latest research from Strategy Analytics predicts that sales of mobile phones able to handle HTML5 - the latest version of the language used to construct web sites - will grow by 365% between 2011 and 2016.
In fact, worldwide HTML5 phone sales are expected to increase from 336 million units this year to 1 billion units in 2013.
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