At the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2007 conference, Steve Ballmer talks about building a mobile platform in the same way the desktop platform was built. Check out the article here and some clips from the keynote.
Some pretty exciting things are happening in the world of mobile. Facebook is adding it's platform to the Blackberry device and tightly integrate with the hardware, AOL launches a bunch of mobile services, Microsoft launches new services for mobile search.
And some stats: US Mobile subscribers have reached 81% of the population (approx 240 million people), people are sending 1billion SMS messages per day in the US and wireless data revenues rose 63% from last year (CTIA Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey). Wish we can get some Canadian stats but I'm sure it doesn't compare to our friends down south!
And I'm sure everyone has heard about the $240million dollar investment from Microsoft on Facebook. That values Facebook at $15billion!
These are exciting times again!