Jan 30
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Couple of Interesting Mobile Stats

A couple of interesting news tidbits that have hit the wires recently about the growth in mobile phone usage.
First of all, the AP reports that 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services than on traditional land lines.
The most recent government data […]

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Jan 30
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Zumobi Beta Now Available

If you’ve got a Windows Mobile device and you’re interested in trying out a new way to access the Internet from your phone, you should check out the just released application from Seattle based Zumobi.
Zumobi today launched the Beta version of its award-winning Zooming User Interface and mobile widget platform. Zumobi can now be […]

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Jan 30
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Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader Number Two on Verizon

The Mobile Phone Blog congratulates Capcom Interactive on their tremendous success with their mobile game, “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”. The game has climbed to the number two slot on Verizon Wireless, displacing perennial bestsellers that have remained at the top of the mobile gaming charts for several years. The game, based […]

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Jan 30
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Stocking Stuffer - MicroSD card

It’s December 10th - that means you have two weeks left to finish your Christmas shopping. Last week I decided to slip into my local Radio Shack to see what they were pushing this season. At the font of the store they had a huge selection of memory cards for use in digital […]

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Jan 30
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Test Drive Phones Before You Buy

One of the big challenges facing mobile application developers is accessing and testing the thousands of handsets in the market. For example, when Movaya launched our hosted WAP storefront as part of PlugNPlay 2.0, we had to ensure that the storefront worked well across our nearly 500 supported devices here in the US. Buying […]

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Jan 30
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Top Posts of 2007

Hard to believe another year of blogging is in the books. Here’s a look at the Top 10 most read posts on the Mobile Phone Blog from the past year. Thanks for reading.
- Free MONOPOLY game from McDonalds- Deal or No Deal Mobile Hits One Million Downloads- Product Review - Mobile ecards from AmericanGreetings.com- […]

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Jan 30
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Mobile 2.0, a follow up to the Year of the Mobile Game

As a follow up to our post on 2008 being the year of the Mobile Game, we would like to revisit a great article from ReadWriteWeb that outlines their definition of Mobile 2.0, and its comparison to Web 2.0. This is really important to us here at Movaya, because it really makes clear why […]

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Jan 30
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Broadband Penetration

The Movaya team has been heads down on 2008 business planning the past week so we haven’t had much time to spend on blog posts but one announcement this week that is important to our business and the overall mobile content space, was T-Mobile USA’s CEO Robert Dotson announcing that the carrier will spend […]

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Jan 30
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ESPN’s Mobile Site Has More Traffic Than Its PC Pages

For those of you that still doubt whether the mobile web has arrived, I would suggest that you read this article from Advertising Age.
You can probably determine the news by the title of this post, but basically multiple times this season, ESPN’s mobile NFL content outdrew its PC NFL content.
“We’re having […]

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Jan 30
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Top Mobile Games on Verizon for 2007

This week is the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There will be lots of news coming out of the show that we will try to report on. One headline today came from Verizon Wireless, who announced the 10 most successful mobile games the company introduced in 2007. The top-ranked games of the […]

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