Onward and Upward says IBM

Computer software giant IBM announced on Tuesday that it plans on spending $100 Million over the next five years investing in cell phones. It seems that over the last week or two cell phone news has been all the buzz (no pun intended for those of you whose phones are on vibrate as we speak). At Apple’s global conference in San Francisco last week the world was introduced to the latest and greatest iPhone yet. With every feature you could ever want, and then 50,000 apps on top of it that can all be used to customized your mobile experience, the iPhone is a pretty serious piece of machinery.

Top researchers and experts for IBM believe that we are only still taking off into the age of cell phone use and accessibility. IBM seeks to develop a simple efficient interface that will facilitate mobile communication past the point where it is right now. Research provided to IBM from Internet World Stats shows that 83% of the world does not have internet access through a computer at home. The development of the mobility of the mobile, that is making it do more and more stuff while being more and more mobile is the goal for this endeavor. The notion of being mobile and yet fully accessible and functioning as if you were sitting at your business’s headquarters or in front of your clients is a very appealing idea to just about everyone in the corporate world.

The technology for phones is growing and expanding at a rapid rate. The way that technology grows in general in it is no wonder that the development of the mobile phone has taken off in the way it has. We have gone from beepers, to car phones, to cell phones the of an arm, to analog screens, black and gray displays, to straight phones, to flip phones, to phones that could access the internet, to now. Phones that are a computer; and a phone; in the palm of your hand; that also play full color HD movies; and stream live baseball games (check out the new At Bat app from MLB.com. Hey remember that time that cell phones could only make phone calls? Gosh, how did we ever survive. IBM know that will be the same mindset in 10 years looking back on the phones and PDA’s we have now, and that is why they are looking to move forward with such a plan.