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Four years ago, most people were pretty happy with their cell phones. They were slim, they slid or flipped and they had sexy names like the RAZR. Today if university students don’t have a smartphone, they probably refer to their phone as a “dumbphone.”

According to reports published in May, overall, cell phones sold 19% more in year over year sales, but Smartphones were increasingly becoming the default purchase. Sales of Smartphones increased 85% year on year.  That statistic is amazing.  Consumers are flocking to devices that allow them to consume media anywhere and access the internet from anywhere. Cell phones already outnumber TV sets 3 to 1 according to BNET. This isn’t a trend. It’s a mobile revolution.

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The last couple of weeks have been rough for the internet. Three very high profile events have brought the issues of privacy and security into sharp relief, and left a lot of people questioning the ability of the internet to protect their valuable data and information.

First, Apple users discovered that any device running iOS 4 had been logging their every movement, right down to the second, and taking a record of it.  The big issue? Anyone could access that. Users were confused, spooked and distrustful of the data logging.

Then the Amazon cloud went down, taking hundreds of web services with it for an entire day – Hootsuite, Foursquare and Reddit being the most well known (and loudly complained about.) People were concerned about the ability of the internet to recover from interruptions.

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