Mobile email the next killer app.

(From Newswire (VNU))

Mobile email, including access to calendars and contact information, will drive growth in mobile data services for businesses over the next five years, industry analysts have predicted. According to research firm Analysys, around 40 per cent of people with a business mobile phone (21 million Europeans) will use mobile email by 2008, compared to less than one per cent today. Over the same period, the annual mobile services revenue generated by email will increase from €49m in 2003 to €2.9bn in 2008. "Businesses have been slow to start using mobile networks for services other than voice," said Katrina Bond, leadauthor of the report. "But …