With SK Telecom, which controls more than 50 percent of mobile users, planning to introduce around 10 Android-powered handsets next year, Korea is expected to be one of many markets around the world next year where Apple and the Android community will duke it out for smartphone supremacy.

For Android users, the CNET Scan and Shop application lets users pull up CNET reviews, pricing information and comparisons. It allows users to view online maps to the closest stores that carry the product. Users also have the ability to add the product to a wishlist and set up price alerts.

Mozilla is set to release its mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, for the Nokia N900 tablet with versions coming next year for Windows Mobile and Android. While the company has shown some interface mock-ups previously, this is the first sign that the new browser is ready for prime time three years after the iPhone’s mobile Safari changed the way we interact with the mobile Web.

We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.

Whatever the specs, the idea of Google getting into the business of designing and selling a gadget — a phone, rather than a computer — signals a clear move toward using phones, rather than PCs, for many computing tasks.

The power of improved mobile devices to disrupt business is partly derived from their ability to deliver services anywhere, any time, but just as importantly by the platform the device itself provides. Anyone who is in any business that can be wholly or partly replaced by an application on a mobile device, or where that mobile device can shine light and increase transparency, has to be ready for the ride of their life.

A Forrester Research (FORR) study shows that despite buzz around Enterprise 2.0, less than 15% of the knowledge workforce makes use of internal blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools. "E-mail is still dominant," says Ted Schadler, author of the report.

Japan is the only market in the world where Twitter offers an official mobile client (launched last month). And in this country, the mobile web is bigger than the fixed Internet, with no signs of a reversing trend (not too few people even expect the gap to be widening in the future).

We all know there’s a huge boom in mobile computing and mobile marketing, but does that mean you either develop phone applications or look on from the sidelines longingly? Not hardly.

According to Digital Life America, smartphone users have an income 50% higher than the national average, so they’re an attractive market to reach. Furthermore, a recent report by Telecom Trends International predicts that smartphones sales will overtake regular phones by 2015, so expect an expanding audience.