Here’s a couple of interesting related to the mobile field.
157 Mobile App Stats You Should Know About

Mobile Megatrends 2010 (VisionMobile)

Mobile Trends 2020

Some really neat new things are [again] taking place due to the summer happenings in Dar es Salaam and what is growing now after them. Also other interesting things are happening in Tampere because of some re-organizing of things. More about these all when there’s something solid to tell.
Some interesting events related to Africa are also taking place during this Fall, links to a couple of those below to all interested in the topic.

You need to make a comeback in a market which you have lost to competitors? Make yourself more local! That is what Motorola is doing in the Arab World. The Cell phone manufacturer, who recently sold its wireless network infrastructure to Nokia Siemens for a healthy $1.2 Billion has decided to launch its Droid in the Arab region by the name of MileStone that will cost buyers $700.

…but who’s the first, with style and with “WOW!”.
Everyone’s now enjoying [well, not everyone; those with Android and iPhone] and praising Layar, the Augmented Mobile App. I haven’t actually tried it, but have followed its development history for a while and it looks neat. Check out the video on AppJudgement below:

Fortumo is an Estonian startup (see our previous coverage) focusing on making it possible for everybody from individuals to home-based businesses to global web entrepreneurs to easily and cheaply collect payments from their customers using mobile payments. The company emphasizes that it should be as easy, quick, and cost-effective to start using mobile payments on your site or in your app as creating a blog or a homepage.

Eat.fi is hands down one the best designed Finnish webservices, if not the best. I love it and use it weekly, but can’t keep thinking it could be so much more.

Sami Inkinen – Mobile Cloud Apps
“I’ve always been doing cloud computing” Larry Ellison.
If you want to have a widely distributed app, you should think of doing it to mobile web. Browsers are already good enough, so usually it’s safe to think of doing this.
Some figures:

Mobile phone shop UK offers the best mobile phones and contract mobile phone deals on Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry Mobile Phones along with mobile phone Latest mobile phone accessories. The link to Best mobile phone deals is here. The latest activity Wednesday, December 23, 2009.

Apple will be the talk of the town in mobile advertising this year. Last week at Apple’s OS 4 event, Jobs presented what advertising industry has been asking from mobile: iAd – the engagement media with scale and quality.

RapidBue Solutions has earlier been working with proximity marketing solutions that use Bluetooth to offer a wide range of content directly to consumers’ mobile phones at point-of-sales, events, and exhibitions. Now the company has finalized a new product offering and is starting to expand more widely into the Nordic countries.

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Sendandsee is a Finnish startup. Not by age, but by ethos. The company is older than most non-startups, but they have never lost the promise of super fast growth if only the pieces would fall into place. Now they might just be about to do that.

MoSync, a Swedish developer of cross-platform mobile app development tools (previously Mobile Sorcery; see our previous coverage), has big plans for creating a whole ecosystem boosting open cross-platform App Stores. MoSync’s new CEO Dusyant Patel, and Co-Founder Tomas Uppgård opened up MoSync’s plans for ArcticStartup.

Those following the mobile gaming industry paid notice that the Finnish gaming studio Universomo was shut down (in Finnish) by its owner THQ Wireless, which acquired the Finnish firm back in 2007. Rumors started to spread on Tuesday this week and pretty soon THQ confirmed the liquidation of the studio. This is part of a bigger shift in the game industry.