Meeker: Smartphones To Eclipse PCs By 2012 by Mark Walsh

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker helped stoke the mobile hype machine last year with her 424-page report predicting more people would be connected to the Web via mobile devices than PCs in five years. The 2010 edition of her annual chart-choked report on Internet trends, unveiled today at the Web 2.0 summit, should keep enthusiasm for all things mobile running high. ...Read the whole story

• Wenner Media Sued For Alleged SMS-Spam by Wendy Davis

  Wenner Media, which publishes Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, US Weekly and other magazines, has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly sending SMS-spam to potential subscribers. ...Read the whole story

• Mobclix Adds Real-Time Bidding To Mobile Ad Exchange by Mark Walsh

  Real-time bidding has become a key feature of online ad exchanges, allowing advertisers to buy targeted ad impressions individually and instantaneously. Lately, real-time bidding (RTB) has been finding its way into mobile advertising as well. In that vein, mobile ad exchange Mobclix today announced it has started offering RTB for its ad inventory. ...Read the whole story

• James Murdoch: Apps Threaten Newspapers by Erik Sass

  Rupert Murdoch may be bullish on tablet computers like iPads, but his son James isn't so sure they're good for the family business, which includes some of the world's best-known newspapers. ...Read the whole story

Just another friendly reminder to retailers: Your customers are way, way ahead of you when it comes to using mobile as a resource. Even my mobile-averse fiancée is ahead of most of you. And that is ...More

• Mobile Couponers by Jack Loechner

  According to a new study from IHL Group, reported by Marketing Charts, eight in 10 US mobile phone users currently uses or will use mobile text coupons within 24 months. The other two retail-related consumer mobile ...More

• Why Google Android 'Gingerbread' Supporting NFC Is Important To Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan

  Advertisers and marketers may not have heard of near field communications (NFC) technology, but the newest version of the Android phone, codename "Gingerbread," supports the chips. Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked about it Monday at the ...More

• T-Mobile's New 4G Network!?!?! by brian.w