Newsweek about Mobile Mangas

For Japan's publishing industry, which has endured a decade of declining sales, the boom is "a savior," says Satoshi Iwamoto, the general manager of Net Media Center at Shogakukan Inc. The market for digital publishing grew nearly fourfold compared with the year before, to $38.5 million in March 2006, according to Impress R&D, a Tokyo-based research firm. Comic books account for $19.6 million, compared with $9.4 million for comics on PCs.

Mobile comics, for which viewers pay 30 or 40 cents an episode, are also a boon to Japanese carriers, whose customers are shifting to fixed-rate plans.

Heike Scholz about Mobile Mangas (in german)

More about Mobile Manga here

Just some links for me, sorry. Expect my personal definition for Mobile 2.0 a bit later.

Mobile 2.0 is not Web 2.0
Experts: Web 2.0 doesn't copy directly to phones

"Beware of naive copying of PC services," said David Wood, executive vice president of research for Symbian. "Some don't translate." [...] Wood and others said that the inherent constraints of mobile phones and networks mean that many Web 2.0 services won't work well without some changes to accommodate those limitations.

[...] Wood expects to see growing interest from Web 2.0 companies in the mobile space, in part due to "intense competition" for users on the Web. But he warned application developers not to regard the smartphone as "an impoverished version of the PC."

Mobile 2.0
Mobile Web 2.0 by Ajit

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Mobileajax