I spent a few days this week at the Rhode Island School of Design discussing mobile design.  Naturally, when I picked up the news, it  seemed to be bursting with stories about mobile.

Marketing VOX is reporting on AT&T research showing that 49 percent of men like watching live sports on mobile devices. As web video develops with services such as Hulu and Netflix, the logical next step is mobile entertainment.

Competitors Gather
It’s still early in the game, and handset makers, software firms, and carriers are competing for a piece of this growing medium. Google, Apple, Verizon, Nokia, Microsoft, and Adobe are all staking out positions and alliances.

Who is Big in Mobile?
While iPhone has a 60 precent share, Android, which is still new, is already approaching 10 percent, and Palm Pre (which is barely weeks old) is at 2-3 percent. Browser-use statistics show that the browsers in Sony’s PSP games are nearly as popular those found in RIM’s BlackBerry. So add in makers of video game systems as another group of competitors.

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