What Google thinks about the future of mobile ?

Google’s Andy Rubin thinks this of the future of mobile: * Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. * Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. * Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. * Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. *...

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Mobile broadband growing at 126% in Saudi Arabia

Mobile broadband uptake in Saudi Arabia is currently growing at a rate of 126 percent, figures released by Etihad Etisalat (Mobily). After 24 months of operations, Mobily said it had 600,000 mobile broadband subscribers presenting 126 percent uptake on 2008 year-end results of 266,000 subscribers and 445 percent growth when compared to the second quarter of 2008. For May alone, daily mobile data consumption reached 37 terabyte, and over one petabyte of traffic exchanged over the month, doubling consumption as compared to the end of 2008. Mobily’s...

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