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SAN FRANCISCO -- Every day, an estimated 100,000 new Web sites are created around the world.

That was one of several staggering statistics served up by Intel's Pankaj Kedia here in his keynote kicking off the GigaOM Mobilize conference.

A few others: Yahoo's photo-sharing site Flickr has four billion images; Facebook users post a billion photos every month; there are 30 billion searches on Google every day.

So, yes, the Internet -- as Donald Trump might say -- is huge and growing like crazy.

And as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) sees it, one area in particular is poised to reap much of the benefit: mobile.

"Our vision is that there will be a billion personal mobile computers in the world over the next few years," Kedia said.

These devices, he quipped, also happen to make phone calls.

He also noted the number of mobile handsets worldwide is closing in on 6 billion, with many consumers owning more than one device. Additionally, Kedia pointed to the rapid proliferation and dropping costs of Internet-enabled devices like netbooks as furthering the cause of mobile connectivity.

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