According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and Life Project, 60 percent of Americans access the Web wirelessly via laptops or smart phones.

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In June Microsoft led a project in Tirupur to roll out an order-tracking application that knitters could access over the Web by text messaging.

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The Firefox OS for mobile devices is built on Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko project" which unlocks many of the current limitations of web development on mobile, allowing HTML5 applications to access the underlying capabilities of a phone, previously only available to native applications.

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