Here is a short overview I put together from this weeks updates.

On the official Facebook blog, there was a short message about mobile Facebook. It said that there were over 15 million active Facebook mobile users, either from the normal m.facebook.com version, or from the extended iPhone, Blackberry, and other smartphone versions x.facebook.com. It will be interesting to see how Facebook monetizes this. 

Informa says in a recent research, that HSPA will be the leading technology for mobile data connection, and will have over 1 billion HSPA subscribers by 2013. According to Informa, WiMax on the other hand should have about 100 million at the same time.

Media company Sky has launched mobile advertising across many of it’s mobile projects: Sky Sports, Sky News, and Football 365. There are over 7 million monthly users on Sky mobile sites.

Nokia informs about opening a research lab down in Hollywood to explore Media and Entertainment. It’s aroudn the web, that they want to build “mixed reality”, things like wearable computing and real-time rendering. Wonder what they have that for.  

Opera has stated in the latest press release, that Opera Mini is being used by 20 million people worldwide. Unfortunatelly in the grand scale of the entire mobile market, it only means Opera Mini has less then 5% of the mobile internet penetration. 

In recent discussions, several bloggers and media sites mention that iPhone is losing it’s shine, and Apple loses it’s credit for it. Read the recent report from Marketwatch on Apple stock. Personally, I think the iPhone shine is over, and the market has gone back to use mobile phones, rather then iPhones. Will G1 from Google take the shine? Read the Android review from PC World.

Last but not least, Adobe informs to bring full flash to mobile phones. I don’t know about them, but FlashLite is still a hard-to-use technology, which mostly produces crappy games and memory heavy content. I think this is Adobe’s wet dream, and hard to see how it becomes reality.

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