presents the visible face of cloud computing that most people have already experienced. The advantages of web-based applications such as Gmail, Twitter, and Facebook are pretty obvious - there's nothing to download to your PC, you can access them from anyw …

So, how will this all affect the use and spread of mobile applications? Over the past couple of years, we've witnessed the unprecedented success of the iPhone and Apple's App Store and this has clearly demonstrated beyond doubt that there is a voracious ap …