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Next Wednesday, November 12, an impressive gathering of startups and mobile-industry poohbahs — everyone from major VCs from firms such as Kleiner Perkins to executives from companies such as T-Mobile, AT&T, CBS, Verizon, Alltel, Comcast, Nokia, Microsoft, and R/GA, will meet in Mountain View, California, to choose America’s Next Top Mobile Startup at Under the Radar. As a moderator, I will be previewing the event by providing snapshots of the companies whose sessions I am facilitating. … [Read more...] about Under the Radar Conference Preview: GoodRec

Next Wednesday, November 12, an impressive gathering of startups and mobile-industry poohbahs from major VCs from firms such as Kleiner Perkins to executives from companies such as T-Mobile, AT&T, CBS, Verizon, Alltel, Comcast, Nokia, Microsoft, and R/GA, will meet in Mountain View, California, to choose America’s Next Top Mobile Startup at Under the Radar. As a moderator, I will be previewing the event by providing snapshots of the companies whose sessions I am facilitating.  … [Read more...] about Under the Radar Conference Preview: Smule

These are the problems that Palringo set out to solve about two years ago. Its free service, which launched last spring, works on any phone powered by Java, Symbian, and Windows Mobile as well as the iPhone and BlackBerry platforms. On top of what you’d expect from IM, Palringo has added push-to-talk capability (for those times when texting is inappropriate, like, say, crossing a busy intersection), photo sharing, and location-aware services. The program is on track to have one million users by the end of the year, in 70 countries. … [Read more...] about Under the Radar Conference Preview: Palringo

Only about 25% of U.S. cell-phone customers have a data plan. So the mass of users generally can’t access multimedia content on their phone without incurring unwanted fees. Hook Mobile is a platform that acts as a go-between for social media and content companies and the mobile carriers to open up MMS as a network to expand content consumption on phones. “Social media is where content is uploaded and shared,” says Craig Dalton, Hook Mobile’s VP of business development. “We’re bringing that bite-sized content to MMS. Why limit the delivery of a sentiment to Facebook?” … [Read more...] about Under the Radar Conference Preview: Hook Mobile

As yet, CEO John Nahm says he’s being very patient about going after the traditional $46.1 billion telemarketing business because he wants to avoid the regulatory nightmare and the potential specter of spam. So at present, solicitations are prohibited on Phonevite’s service. … [Read more...] about Under the Radar Conference Preview: Phonevite