Exclaim, a leading branded platform provider of innovative wireless applications that allow advanced sharing and managing of images, video, and rich media, launched a scalable platform to monetize consumers’ content on mobile devices: Pictavision DMM (Digital Media Management), the industry’s first user-generated, content exchange platform for wireless carriers and handset vendors. Pictavision DMM has been powering user-generated content exchange for more than three years for some of the leading mobile photo and video sharing applications including Pictavision, Kodak Mobile Link, and CNET Webshots Pictavision.

New research from mobile phone-back up service provider ZYB, reveals that Britons are suffering from phone number amnesia with almost three quarters of the population (69 per cent) unable to remember even five numbers stored on their mobile phone. Mobile phones are involved in 40 per cent of robberies within the UK with a handset being stolen every 12 seconds (the equivalent of more than 2.5 million per year), however six in ten (59 per cent) do not have their mobile phone numbers backed-up in any way, whether that means writing them down, saving them to a computer or storing them online.

Mobispine AB with its uniquely featured intelligent agent for mobile phones has released a powerful new version that is expected to increase the number of users who are ‘murfing’ (mobile surfing) into millions around the world. The vast number of news pages and blogs being created and updated everyday, increases all the time. Mobispine allows users to view web content on their mobile phone at 20x less cost than the pre-installed phone browser. To save data-time, this intelligent agent gets updated only when the news article or blog changes, and the unique search function ensures a quick, effortless experience when exploring the web’s sea of information.

Beatnik, Inc., the leading provider of audio software solutions for mobile devices, announced the next generation in mobile music software that enables high fidelity, full track music services to be delivered directly to low cost, mass market phones over existing 2.5G networks. Users of the Beatnik Mobile Music Player experience the same high quality digital music playback as with standalone players, with the added benefit of being able to browse and purchase new songs for immediate delivery and playback on their mobile phone. The optimised, standard file format used - up to ten times smaller than equivalent quality digital encoding - enables full track over the air downloads over bandwidth limited networks such as GPRS.

The market for mobile phone accessories will generate over $32 billion in revenues in 2007, more than the $28 billion expected from the Smartphone market. Around 77% of these revenues will come from the sales of “after-market” mobile phone accessories and the remaining from “in-box” accessories shipments. According to ABI Research industry analyst Shailendra Pandey, “The number of mobile phone accessory products is expanding with new products driven by technology as well as by customer fashion and personalization needs appearing in the market. Handset vendors and mobile operators are showing greater interest as accessories provide high margins and also opportunities to promote their brand and expand their product offerings.

Augmentra, a leading innovator in gps-enabled navigation software for smartphones, announced the latest version of its award-winning ViewRanger off-road mapping, navigation and information software, and announced support for the Nokia N95 with integrated GPS. ViewRanger is specifically designed for the off-road user, whether hill-walker, mountain biker, geo-cacher, birdwatcher, or rural tourist. It offers a unique combination of 2D and 3D mapping, GPS navigation, sports performance analysis, content sharing, and buddy tracking. Running ViewRanger on the Nokia N95 with integrated GPS removes the need for a separate GPS receiver.

Tourist Mobile, one of the worlds leading Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), announced that it has partnered with Sonim Technologies, the leader in Push-To-Talk IMS solutions for mobile operators, to launch Austria's first standards-based Push-To-Talk system. Tourist Mobile's customers will now have early access to Sonim's XP1 mobile "tough phone" along with Sonim's high performance Push-To-Talk service.

dotMobi, the company behind the first and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones, announced more than 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain's commercial launch in October 2006. The continual growth of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers are focused on delivering quality sites and applications to mobile phones for consumers to use. Millions of pages of content are now live on .mobi sites and many of the world's leading brands have gone ".mobi" over the past few months.

2waytraffic N.V. '2waytraffic' or 'The Company' the international developer and exploiter of interactive content, announces today that Emexus, acquired in June 2006, and 2waytraffic's mobile content division have been fully integrated and re-launched as 2waytraffic mobile. 2waytraffic mobile has been established to facilitate 2waytraffic's growth ambitions regarding the creation, exploitation and roll-out of mobile entertainment services and to maximise the synergy and efficiency advantages gained since the acquisition. Additionally, the company's corporate clients will have access to 2waytraffic's unique interactive experience and know-how to reach and interact with mass audiences around the globe.