As we quickly approach the end of the year, mobile operators and application vendors are playing close attention to the changing market. Bango Analytics has offered five predictions on changes that are expected to shape the mobile world during 2009.

One of the world’s most active pure mobile communities, itsmy.com (http://m.itsmy.com for mobile phone), has revealed the results of by far the largest mobile social networking survey. Conducted amongst 15,000 active users worldwide, the survey discovered astonishing details about mobile social networking usage in US and Europe. The survey found ...

According to a new Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Strategies service report, “Mobile Internet Forecast Update 2001-2013,” demand for popular content and services on the web, such as social networks, email, and news sites, while away from fixed Internet connections, will drive consumer spending on mobile web access products from operators. ...

comScore, Inc., has released its "U.K. PC & Mobile Internet Usage White Paper", providing for the first time, a comparative insight into Internet behavior across the country’s mobile and PC Internet screens. The U.K. paper, which is comScore’s first dual-screen publication in any of the global markets it currently tracks, ...

Clearwire Corporation has completed the transaction with Sprint Nextel Corporation to combine their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. The new company retains the Clearwire name and expects to build the first nationwide 4G mobile broadband network focused on meeting the evolving needs and demands for Internet-based communications services. In addition, Clearwire ...

The mobile web services market has become a key area of focus for both cellular operators and vendors, all of which are working to gain a strong foothold before the market takes off. IDATE is one of Europe’s foremost market analysis and consulting firms has published a new report that ...

Logia Group, the leading global provider of innovative mobile Internet services, on November 26, announced the international re-launch of TheCellFreak.com, the user generated free cellular content site and mobile blog, which features an exclusive Free Worldwide SMS service sending text messages from the web to cell phones. The service is ...