Mobile browser maker says social networks top use

May 21, 2008 By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- People who use their cell phones to surf the Web tend to steer to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook ahead of news, maps or weather, mobile browser company Opera says.

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