Mobile communication

How Mobile Communication Will take over the world 2014| Mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet usage 2014 91% of adults who have a mobile phone will have it within arm's reach. 2015 It's predicted that mobile shopping by way of smartphones will account for $163 billion in sales worldwide. $163.000.000.000 Purchase 2017 By 2017, mobile subscriptions are expected to top 10 billion. That works out to 1.4 devices for every person expected to be on Earth at that time (7.6 billion). 1 billion mobile subscriptions / 1 billion person %3D 2019| Half of today's smartphone users will be using their smartphone mobile wallet as their preferred method of payment. Source: Louis Basenese, "This is (Still) the Biggest Tech Trend Ever and These Five Stats Prove It." Wall Street Daily, 12 March 2013, http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2013/03/12/mobile-revolution-tech-trend. "Mobile Marketing: No Longer a Spam and Pop-Up World," accessed 29 July 2014, http://visual.ly/mobile-marketing-no-longer-spam-and-pop-world. Infographics That Go Viral, "Smartphone Revolution," accessed July 29, 2014, http://infographicb2b.com/2014/04/17/smartphone-revolution-infographic. "Are you going to adopt a modern textbook with exten- sive integration of mobile business communication in every chapter, or are you going to saddle your students with one of the commonly adopted business communi- cation texts that are stuck in the last decade?" In 5 years