As consumers are increasingly connecting to the Internet via their smartphones, advertisers are piling on the money to roll out mobile ads. In the first half of 2013, US advertisers spent $3 billion on mobile advertising, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, according to estimates from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Hot on the heels of the news that Microsoft would be bringing a touch-ready version of Office to iPad at some unspecified time in the near future, the Redmond company has just announced that Remote Desktop is also about to hit the iTunes App Store...

Mobile is everywhere. We've written about mobile extensively. We even built a product in response to the need for easy mobile marketing solutions. Yet, so many businesses and organizations continue to ignore mobile.

Just like Google, Mozilla too wants a piece of the second screen market. The company is reportedly testing the new technology that would allow users to beam content from their mobile browser to the TV.

By now it should be clear: For any new mobile technology to take off and thrive, convenience and value must be abundantly clear to the consumer.

While the industry has been busy focusing on mobile payments, something interesting has happened.  The non-payment mobile wallet has emerged.

The real opportunity for brands is on the non-payment side, or the part of the wallet used to organize, not to pay for, items. Consumers are making their demands clear, according to recent research: They want solutions that help them better organize their mobile phones, especially as their reliance on them to complete daily tasks such as shopping continues to grow.

For retailers, the opportunity is vast, yet mostly un-tapped; they can use this emerging non-payment side of the mobile wallet, led by Apple’s Passbook and now available with Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet, to build personal, ongoing relationships with their consumers that drive loyalty and increase average order value.

What’s Behind the Growth?

Our Mobile Life Infographic paints an insightful picture about us: our culture, our behavior, what’s important to us, and how we spend our time and

Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today. The survey helps track market interest in the various platforms, tacking changing winds.

Juniper Research is on a verge of being kinky in its latest report, forecasting that by 2017, a quarter of a billion people will use their mobile devices to access adult content, up by more than 30% on current usage.