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This is the first time we are covering this report but I think that for everyone involved in emerging technology it is interesting to know what lies ahead.

At the Web 2.0 Summit, every year Mary Meeker, an analyst from Morgan Stanley conducts a presentation of internet trends. In short she foresees mobile usage to be bigger than most experts calculate and forecasts that regulators can help advance or slow mobile internet evolution.

Improvements in social networking and mobile computing platforms (led by Facebook + Apple ecosystems) are fundamentally changing ways people communicate with each other and ways developers / advertisers / vendors reach consumers.
Mobile devices will evolve as remote controls for ever expanding types of real-time cloud-based services, including emerging category of location-based services, creating opportunities + dislocations, empowering consumers in unprecedented + transformative ways.

Is anyone surprised that mobile is going to rule the future. Blackberries and iPhones are now turning into small computers that can utilize every web application to its fullest potential. To read the full report please click here.

Via: Read/Write/Web
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mary_meekers_internet_trends_presentation_2009.php