Mobile world set to reshape the internet

摘要

The recent Mobile World Congress which took place from February 1 lth to 14th, saw three definitive trends: global positioning, full web browsing including YouTube videos and high definition video encoding/decoding capabilities on a cell phone. Such trends underscore serious battles brewing among various technology suppliers, as they jockey for position in a mobile market where the separation of cell phones from consumer electronics devices is fast disappearing. Such battles come in various mutations including: Nokia versus Google on GPS-enabled Internet; ARM, Texas Instruments and others versus Intel on Mobile Internet Devices; Apple versus Google pitting iPhone software developers against future application developers for Google's Android platform.