Chapter 9
Mobile Internet Devices and the Cloud
9.1 Chapter Overview
A December 2008 Informa Telecoms & Media study 1 estimated that there are over 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide—an astounding number when you realize that this figure represents 60% of the global population today. Of course, this does not mean that two out of every three people on Earth have a mobile phone. It is common in more than 60 countries, however, for one person to have two or more devices, even while there are no phones at all in some parts of the globe. In some countries, millions of people are now experiencing connectivity to the world for the first time through wireless technologies. It is changing their economic, social, and political fortunes ...
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