{"id":524,"date":"2008-03-12T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-03-12T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T15:00:57","slug":"technology-2008-the-year-for-the-mobile-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-2008-the-year-for-the-mobile-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: 2008 the year for the Mobile Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of 1995, many publications declared that year to have been the “Year of the Internet”. The Internet has changed a lot since then, but its use continues to grow. Mobile device access to the internet have been around for a while, but 2008 could well be the year that Mobile Internet takes off.<\/p>\n

Internet browsing is becoming frequently standard on new mobile phones. And there are now more than a billion handsets worldwide. Until now only one in five of those with Internet connection capability on their phones used it. Now with phones like the iPhone, that’s changing<\/a>. Almost 86% of iPhone users use it to go on line. Part of that success is due to how iPhones are sold — with flat data rate plans — you use as much as you want with no additional charges.<\/p>\n

\nDr. Tony Wasserman<\/a>, executive director of the Center for Open Source Investigation says that “mobile devices will have a big impact on the development of Web applications. Developers will have to revise existing Web-based applications to accommodate the different screen sizes, resolutions, and input methods used for these mobile devices… By the end of the decade, we’ll see a sizable transition toward the use of mobile browsers accompanies by a multitude of new Web applications that take advantage of the capabilities of mobile devices.”<\/p>\n

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At the end of 1995, many publications declared that year to have been the “Year of the Internet”. The Internet has changed a lot since then, but its use continues to grow. Mobile device access to the internet have been…<\/span><\/p>\n

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