China has close to a 100 million WAP users presently and iResearch predicts  230 million WAP users  by 2008. WAP usage increased 157% in the past year and that trend is accelerating as China Mobile (the largest provider) continues to create a WAP friendly climate with reduction in usage and access costs.

MyeBlog is a new Australian weblog portal allowing for anyone to create a blog without effort or coding skills. Like most services in this arena, the site uses templates, offers forums and moderation of posts and utilizes tags for social networking. Mobile blogging and podcasting are supported but only for premium users. Free memberships with limited features  are availabe till July 1st 2006.

Pew Internet and American Life Program's "Home Broadband Adoption 2006" report states that broadband users are more likely to create and post content on the Web. One third or 50 million users do so and among broadband users the number rises to 73% percent. Content creation seems to be shifting to younger users and not as tied down to higher income households as before.

Nokia has released an S60 Symbian version of the popular Apache web server. Called Raccoon and bundled with mod_python and other goodies, it will  run a web server on your mobile phone through a special gateway and open source BSD licensing means developers can freely code products with the Webkit Open Source Project . Besides just sounding "cool" there are many practical advantages to such a product.

PDX.cn is a leading Chinese mobile content portal started by Marcus Xiang, Jack Wang and Dirk Ye in 2004. Today, the company boasts over 100,000 mobloggers from an active community of two million users and continues to fucus its strategy on handheld created content. Pacific Epoch interviewed the founders for their thoughts on the mobile blogging community in China, its business models and limiting factors.

WordPress is by far the most popular personal blogging system in use today and Postie extends its mobile blogging capabilities. Originally developed by John Blade and extended by EcononySizedGeek  this plugin allows updating to your WordPress blog via e-mail or any mobile device that supports IMAP/POP3 protocols. It seems to be a favorite among the dozen or so WordPress moblogging options so I've added it to our downloads section.

Ever wanted to get daily photo news stories and interesting feature stories delivered to your mobile device? Ever wanted to share photos with your friends and family without paying huge MMS charges? Share device to device without having to go through a web-site? Well with WpN Mobile for Windows smartphones and Pocket PC's you can do the above and even generate revenue for any sold or syndicated content.

Interesting article in The Toronto Star with statistics on the mobile industry , handset sales by type and commentary on emerging markets. As expected, rollout of high end mobile devices continues at a breakneck pace as does consumer desire for services to enable publishing of personal content. Some highlights follow:

Strategy Analytics published a landmark converged device benchmark report comparing the newly released Nokia 900, the PalmTreo 700W and Rim's Blackberry 8700C smartphones. The Nokia 9300 beat its peers in three of five broad categories. Motorola's new Q is also mentioned as the upcoming competitor.

Get ready for  Zucasts - a new way to download rich multimedia onto your phone from Shozu. Whether it's professional or amateur content, our favorite photo blogging service promises to deliver with no delays or manual intervention. The new ShoZu service resulting from a partnership with Cognima  (see diagram below) will debut with ZuCasts from the Vans Warped Tour as well as three of the most popular user-generated sites on the Web.