Mobile Monday is an open business community of mobile professionals uniting the representatives of different companies in IT, mobile and telecommunication industries. Mobile developers, service providers, mobile content providers and mobile software developers come together on Mobile Mondays to share their vision of local mobile markets and discuss their globalization. Mobile Monday conferences enable companies just entering the high-tech market as well as experienced players to expand their business network, share experience and find common cooperation opportunities.
According to the research held by analytics company Canalys the market of “smart” mobile devices in Europe, Near East and Africa grows more rapidly than market of mobile phones. Within the first half of 2005 9.6 million of smartphones and PDAs were sold compared to 3.6 million during the same period of the previous year. Such trend is observed worldwide – almost 70 million full feature handsets are sold worldwide. According to analysts the two main processes in progress stipulate such growth at the moment. On the one hand, ordinary users interchange their old smartphones and PDAs to newer ones. On the other hand, there is an upsurge in interest in mobile E-mail and extended abilities of smart mobile devices from companies and corporations.
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