A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that Americans are increasingly accessing the internet wirelessly (including mobile phones, game consoles, and laptops). And 32% of Americans have accessed the internet from a mobile device (meaning mobile phone or other handheld device). Two years ago that was only about 20%.

Commentary in the Economist last week about the three undersea cables that are FINALLY getting connected in Kenya. East Africa may  the last highly populated area on earth that has been getting by with slow and expensive satellite internet. The new cables, the first of which is due to come online very soon, should dramatically improve speed and dramatically lower the price of access.

Jessica Shambora of Fortune magazine has a great article talking about the iPhone-spawned explosion of mobile applications, and she wonders "Does this mean that we'll soon be trading in our PCs in the same way many of us gave up our landlines in favor of our cell phones?"