Article Title: Berners-Lee appeals for open mobile Internet

Excerpt: In a speech at the Mobile Internet World conference, Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, urged mobile network operators and other vendors to adhere to as-yet unspecified mobile Web standards instead of taking proprietary approaches. He also said that hardware, software and content should be as universally available to users on the mobile Web as it is on the wired one.

Excerpt: "The most important thing about the Web's arrival is that it runs on any hardware, any software, any language, and can be used by people with disabilities," Berners-Lee told his audience. "It has had to be universal. That's what is important to remember as we go into the mobile Web. It's important to keep it universal."

Excerpt: Yankee Group Research, one of the sponsors of Mobile Internet World, said in a recent report that the wireless industry has thus far failed to meet the pent-up consumer demand for mobile Internet services. The annual worldwide market for such services could be $66 billion but has only reached about $9.5 billion, Yankee Group said, citing a new research model that it has developed.