Top Players Compete for Dominance of the Mobile Web

As Wireless Broadband comes of age, rivalry is fueled between tech giants. The Mobile World Congress that takes place next week in Barcelona will be a competitive show of the latest and greatest possiblities for the forthcoming Mobile Internet. The winner will determine how billions of users experience the web on their cell phones.

Wireless Fair Set To Stage Mobile Web Battle By: Georgina Prodhan, European Technology Correspondent Reuters Feb. 8th, 2008

Cell phone makers, telecoms carriers and Internet groups are squaring up for a fight for dominance of the mobile Internet, finally ready for market after years of promises and hundreds of billions in investments. Wireless Broadband is coming of age, making rivals of companies such as Nokia Oyj, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp, and Apple Inc, who previously could afford to coexist relatively peacefully.
Mobile networks are now capable of delivering the Internet as smoothly to a mobile phone as to a PC, with the clunky handsets, stuttering downloads and network jams of the recent past almost forgotten in many developed markets.
And the scramble to capitalize on that opportunity will loom over all other business at next week's Mobile World Congress....The outcome of the struggle to win the mobile Web will not only be crucial for the combatants but will decide how the mobile Web is experienced by billions of people.
At the fair, visitors will be on alert for sightings of prototypes of the Gphone -- phones built on a Google open software platform that will help it loosen up the market and extend its online advertising power into mobile search ads....Google rival Yahoo's alternative strategy of refining its mobile search and teaming up with operators to make it more visible to consumers, will also come under scrutiny, especially as it mulls a $45 billion bid from Microsoft.
Nokia is expected to give more details of its own push into Internet services, including gaming and music and video sharing offerings that it started to roll out last week.
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