World-Wide Mobile Phone Adoption Soars

Google News Place-Shifting •  MIX10: SlingPlayer for Windows Phone 7 Series in Silverlight? - pocketnow.com •  AT&T OKs TV Place-Shifting Via 3G To iPhone - Twice •  Streaming your home TV to your mobile devices - CanadianBusiness.com •  SlingPlayer Mobile App Now Available in App Store - TMC Net •  It's 5:00pm, you're out of touch - ADOI magazine •  Apple increases iPhone's 3G app download limit - FierceBroadbandWireless •  Sling Media iPhone app reaches full potential with lifting of 3G restriction - Dallas Morning News •  EchoStar Europe Enables Media Ubiquity at Cable Congress 2010 - CNNMoney.com (press release) •  Dispatch From the Front Lines of the New Media Battle - No Jitter (blog) •  The Post-IPTV Era has begun. Have you noticed? - ConnectedPlanet (blog)

In a recent article published by the Guardian, Victor Keegan discusses the economic growth impact the mobile phone has had on countries in the developing world. The adoption rate of mobile devices world-wide, especially in African countries, has enabled countries previously lagging in technological advancement to leap directly into the Information Age.

Mobile phones are increasingly serving the functions of PCs, with CMWare's place-shifting of music and other media from the PC to the mobile phone mentioned as an enabling technology for this disruption.  CMWare is an Updata Partners portfolio company.