Neither the Apple iPhone nor the iPad officially support the Adobe Flash video format; a decision that’s frustrated many users, despite the introduction of alternative browsers.
And neither Adobe nor Apple appeared willing to compromise... until Thursday last week.
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More US internet users will access the internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other fixed-line devices by 2015, according to the latest Worldwide New Media Market Model from the International Data Corporation.
IDC expects the number of mobile internet users to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 16.6% between 2010 and 2015.
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The European Commission has adopted a recommendation urging its member states to ensure their mobile networks are ready for eCall devices.
It wants all new cars produced from 2015 to contain an eCall device that’ll automatically call the 112 pan-European emergency number if there’s a serious accident. The in-car eCall device would pass the vehicle's location to the emergency services but wouldn’t track the user’s location until activated.
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Mark Bridge writes:
This month’s Carnival of the Mobilists is now online over at wapreview.com. It collects the month’s best mobile blogging and is hosted on a different mobile-related site every time it appears.
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Micro-blogging service Twitter says it’s acquired 100 million active users in the last five years.
More than half of these people log in to Twitter each day - and around 55% of those 100 million actively use Twitter on mobile devices.
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