Today comCast, a internet market research company, has announced that mobile internet browsing and usage has more than doubled when compared to exactly a year ago (January 2008 vs January 2009). In other words, more people in the US are using their phones for getting news, blogging and interacting with their friends via social networks than ever before.

comCast says this is largely thanks to social networking and blogging trends becoming incredibly popular:

Social networking and blogging have emerged as very popular daily uses of the mobile Web and these activities are growing at a torrid pace

says Mike Donovan (senior vice president of comCast mobile). He also points out that application downloads, like the iPhone’s App Store helped increase mobile internet usage popularity:

“We also note that much of the growth in news and information usage is driven by the increased popularity of downloaded applications, such as those offered for the iPhone”

Another interesting fact that came out of the report is that both men and women aged 18-34 are the most common mobile internet users.

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