You can't help but observe the growth of Twitter

You can't help nevertheless observe the growth of Twitter racing over the planet with a billion "tweets" per month, or the hundreds of millions of LinkedIn members sharing professional career information, or the millions of digital books being downloaded through Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or the billions of downloads of the Apple iPhone applications that entertain us and provide very useful applications to make our lives easier.

Who would have thought that Apple Inc. could have driven a mobile market vast enough to inspire three billion mobile app downloads by January of 2010? This power brand is unlike any other, and its technology and ability to deliver the best user experience has been a fascinating success story in other words exciting to watch. It has us "iTuned" for new announcements. By launching the iPad in 2010, Apple primed the pump for all its other products and services. Apple reconfigured the business it is in, nevertheless, more powerfully and pervasively, it destroyed assumptions about what constrains the way all organizations and sectors might communicate and interact with one another and the world.

The fact is that mobile connectivity is rapidly becoming the standard or rather than the exception. Remember the dinosaurs? That's your product or service if you aren't carefully considering how you might apply connectivity to it. New products with broadband connection to the Internet that are however showing up at consumer stores just as Target, Best Buy, and Staples are replacing those products that don't have it. Manufacturers who know how to produce research products that integrate wireless may survive; those that don't, surely won't. Consumers of the past uploaded and moved information in raisin-sized Internet bytes compared to consumers today, who can move truckloads of data, video media, and urgent communications over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) in fast, easy-to-use services.

The Internet

Mobility lives on the Internet. It breathes on terabytes of information and serves billions of people together. We seemingly can't live without our Internet connections and the fanfare we receive on our favorite social media sites, just as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter; video portals, just as YouTube; or our personal blogging sites. Like it or not, most of us have become dependent on the Internet to help us keep up with our friends and family, not to mention our work.

There is no question that, whether we like it or not, the Internet connects us to urgent, important information; provides us a lifestyle filled with individualized products and services that entertain, educate, and inform us on demand; and introduces us to new ideas, ways of thinking, and people.

The mobile phone industry

The mobile phone industry, and others, have powered up the perfect solutions for all of us if what we want is to stay connected to work and play. Innovation devices give us the freedom and power to live and work where we want. Mobility is not just for the rich or for executives or for powerful people anymore. Everyone wants to connect, to call, to text, to search, to navigate, to listen, to translate, to coach, to train, to collaborate, to upload, to share-and they can!