Mobile Web Initiative and Ubiquitous Access

Philipp Hoschka, <ph@w3.org>

Nice

Overview

Web has become Mass Medium

Mobile Gateway into Digital Universe

Active Users Increasing, Strong Revenue Generation Despite Price Erosion

Mobile Browsing prediction

A significant proportion of subscribers have terminals enabled for browsing. The active user population is rapidly growing, and despite the downward pressure on prices, mobile browsing is a strong revenue generator.

Source: W3C-MWI/Nokia

Mobile Web: Growing Use

Overview

Who's Involved?

19 Sponsors

MWI sponsors

Mobile Web Best Practices

Take-Up of Best Practices

Overview

MWI Future Work

W3C Technology for Embedded Applications

Photos of Web on phones, TV, refrigerator, cars, plane

W3C Technology for Ubiquitous Computing

Photos of Web on phones, TV, refrigerator, cars, plane

UbiWeb: Challenges for W3C

What You Can Do