News Article #5

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Mobile web surfing on the rise: report Wednesday, April 19 2006 by Ciaran Buckley

http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9680810.html


This article is about the mass number of people who have adopted a relatively new way to acces information on the internet. They are using their moble phones whereever they are to visit weebsite. The article stated that Japan is leading the world with 4 out of every 10 cell phone users accessing the web with their phones. However in the US it is not that impressive. Many americans prefer notebook computers for accessing the web becasue of its extended battery life, easy usability, and that more web sites are formatted for computers.

However phone companies predict more popularity with webaccess through phones if they can manage to reduce costly phone bills from internet access.

I beleive that if phone companies are able to make it cheep and easy, many more americans will end up using the web from their mobile phones, and stop taking their laptops everywhere with them. however i do see all the advantages that laptops have over phones. i also think that if more websites could be formatted for mobile phones then this will also atract more customers who prefer laptops.