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Mobile Communications Market Expanding Successfully

Over the first six months of the current year, sales of mobile phones, in particular, increased considerably in emerging and developing countries, while products relating to mobile internet were the growth drivers in western industrialized nations, reports GfK Retail and Technology.
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Twitter Details Mobile Growth, Third Party Client Use

One might think that from the start, Twitter should have been a natural match for mobile devices, considering their suitability for short text messages and Twitter's 140 character limit on tweets.
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Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere

More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines.
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iOS More Popular Than Android Online

Apple's iOS mobile operating system has a market share nearly six times larger than Android's. Apple - Mobile operating system - Android - Market share - IOS
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How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets

The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015 -- a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty of challenges for businesses.
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What you're saying: Population growth not always a good thing

Readers weigh in on the city growth discussion in Mobile in response to a planning guru's speech.
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Google alumnus fosters startup culture in China

Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Google Inc.'s Chinese division during its biggest growth years, is investing in a mobile-software maker and 11 other businesses in the country to foster a startup culture and benefit from booming demand for Web technology. Tapas, a... Google - China - Kai-Fu Lee - Searching - Search Engines
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Tea party activists join forces with telecoms

WASHINGTON -- In the debate over Internet neutrality, tea party and other conservative activists have aligned their interests with those of major telecommunications companies.
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Apple iOS becomes third most-popular platform on the Internet

Apple's iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android's, a Web measurement company said Wednesday.
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New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet

For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet. Africa - West Africa - Optical fiber - Atlantic Ocean - Cable
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