Tablets to rise and rise. Up just over 150% on last year, 33.7 million Americans own a tablet.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/33-7m-americans-are-using-tablets/016227 

Yet more reason to think that NFC will take off next year as more handsets look set to embrace it.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/nfc-in-over-50-per-cent-of-smartphones-by-2015/016235

f-commerce. Apparently 12% of facebook users - so around 96 million people - have made a purchase via facebook.
http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/content/fcommerce-march

Do facebook want to create their own phone? Various websites are reporting on the “secret” project, Buffy. Seems rather odd.
http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/11/22/facebook-is-working-on-an-official-phone-codenamed-buffy/ 

This is seriously cool. Some nerds have created a spray that will make your phone / computer / anything really water replant. Yes it actually repels water.
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/11/21/iphone-survives-30-minutes-underwater-neverwet-coating/
  

It would appear that the UK are a social bunch, just so long as it is not face-to-face and over the phone.
http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/11/23/uk-leading-the-way-as-mobile-social-networking-use-skyrockets-across-europe/

Also amazing is this story about a contact lens being clever.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/22/2580094/single-pixel-contact-lens-display-test-rabbits 

The genius of Alex Blagg