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From her base in Siegburg, Germany, Peggy Anne Salz of MSearchGroove.com brings us the week's worldwide Best & Brightest blogging in Carnival of the Mobilists #189. Lots of great reading material here. A comprehensive list of mobile industry facts and figures has been posted and explained by Andy Favell and the team at mobiThinking.com. Did you know that there are 4.3 billion mobile subscribers worldwide; growing to 5.8 billion in 2013? Check out the article for more great information.

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Hosted by Judy Breck at GoldenSwamp.com, Carnival #188 is a celebration of the Frog Days of Summer, featuring this week's featured mobilist blogging that is is brimming with ideas and information. It Includes an article from Jose Colucci at MobileStrategy, who blogs as a Canadian consumer of financial services. His article, "12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services" is very interesting. Mobile banking… hmmm – stay tuned.

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Hi Teresa,
Thanks for the call out. I appreciate it. The next post in the Canadian Mobile Banking series will be up shortly. I checked the World Tour and did not find any references to a Toronto trip…

Cheers,
Jose

Host Jamie Wells at mobilestance.com tells us it is typical with most summertime carnivals for the heat to bring out the passion – and Carnival #187 does not disappoint. Steve Smith of min online gets The Post of the Week for his post Top Five iPhone Revenue Ideas Magazines Should Steal.

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Carnival #186 at allaboutiPhone.net is a speed write from host Matt Radford that deftly touches important bases so you can jump to the week's best mobile blogging. Check out Chetan Sharma's latest US Wireless Data Market Update – Q2 2009. It's crammed full of interesting analysis including the following: The App vs. Mobile Web discussion reached a surprisingly new crescendo. The evolution is pretty clear – for the applications that don't require significant UI resources, it will be better to develop in for the browser, for intensive games, the native platform will be ahead of the browser advances. The location API access on the iPhone browser is breakthrough to have developers start thinking about the webapps.

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Be Scene @ CTIA

Great news for WIP members! Here are 3 ways to get involved with WIP @ CTIA in San Diego, CA. (Not a WIP member? Register here!)

1. Developer Pavilion at CTIA
Wednesday, October 7 – Friday, October 9, 2009
Fully pimped out booth (5′ x 10′ for $2,000.00) and valuable extras
Deadline August 7 for full benefits!

2. Pepcom – Mobilefocus@CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2009
October 7, 2009; 7:00 – 10:00 pm
At the Omni in San Diego
20% WIP Member Discount

3. WIPJAM @CTIA
Thursday October 8, 2009
Don't forget to sign up to Jam with us!

Here is more information on these great opportunities!

Developer Pavilion at CTIA
Wednesday, October 7 – Friday, October 9, 2009

Become an exhibitor at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Show with us!
We've secured a great rate and valuable extras for WIP members and partners at the Developer Pavilion. Fully pimped out booths are available in 2 sizes:
• 5' x 10' booth for $2,000.00 USD
• 10' x 10' booth for $3,800.00USD

All booths include:

• 2 chairs...

Join the throng at Mobileslate.com's first Carnival of the Mobilists as Eric Chan hosts #185 with this spectacular carnival crowd illustration. Included is an article by Andy Favell of mobiThinking who writes about "Why recession is a great time to invest in mobile". I think we can all agree that in this recession, one of the few things people are not parting with is their mobile.

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Following our Europe Open Source in mobile WIPjam tour, here's the third and last blog in a short series summarizing the tour.

The last element of openness spotted during the tour was for open opportunities in the mobile space… Some call it fragmentation and hate the number of niches that keep appearing some see it as wide open spaces in which to create something new!

And at this point in time in Europe, this is probably best illustrated by the number of Android specialized start-ups ExpertiseAndroid, OpenIntents, OTAMate, akquinet . All these companies have one thing in common :

Their owner takes a bet (probably a reasonable one) on the emergence of Android as a major platform and position his company as a leader in this field by evangelizing about Android at conferences like LinuxTag.

A tried and tested approach? An easy thing to do for anyone with Java skills? Yes maybe… but the rooms are full to listen as the buzz grows…

The absence of Google or any Open Handset Alliance from...