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Concierge Mobile is now online, giving the popular website branch of Conde Nast’s Traveler magazine added Mobile 2.0 functionality. The service itself is ingenious in its simplicity; if you find a listing you’re interested in, and feel like taking …

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Hello MobileCrunch readers. The guys at CrunchGear have been tasked to update and moderate MobileCrunch and we will soon be ramping up with a new lead reporter focusing on Mobile 2.0. Before we begin, however, I’d like to get your input on what you’d like to see here. We will definitely be running M2.0 profiles, just as the Oliver did, but we’d also like to bring some of our gadget-happy content to this site, with your kind indulgence.

Mozes Inc has for their service based around text-message advertising campaigns.”The market opportunity for mobile content, text message delivery and related services is huge and continues to grow,” said Robert Abbott, general partner, Norwest Venture Partners. “Mozes empowers content publishers to provide compelling marketing events and campaigns directly to consumers' mobile phones as they wish to receive them. With this service, Mozes is poised for both market and technology leadership in this space.”Via .

This popped into my inbox this morning: , the company making books available for reading via WAP, has done a deal with which will see the vast, public domain content of the Gutenberg archives made available to Wattpad users. This deal adds more than 17,000 titles to the Wattpad platform.Since Wattpad's launch our users have uploaded thousands of stories.” said Ivan Yuen, Founder of Wattpad. “Now with the inclusion of Project Gutenberg's eBooks, we have one of the world's largest selections of stories for our users.”

has posted some pictures from of their top-selling cellphone dangly things.

Although the best one I've seen recently is a , which also comes from Tokyomango (although in this case to me via BoingBoing.)

As promised, here's my excuse for being more absent than present for the past few weeks: The has now launched, and as I'm the lead developer on both the Web and WAP side of things, I've been a little busy working my fingers to the bone in WML, HTML, CSS and a little javascript

With the launch of the website, I've also extended the functionality of the WAP service. Here's the big list of stuff the service now supports:

Well, it's been a while - but I claim extenuating circumstances… And my apologies as well to those who've contacted me asking when I'll be posting again.

Anyway, for the past few weeks I've been immersed to the exclusion of pretty much everything else in the launching of a new website, more of which in the next post. I've been so busy that everything has taken a back seat, but I think it's been worth it. I'm …

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A from is forecasting SMS revenues to reach $67 billion. The increase is mostly attributed to an expected increase in mobile subscriber base from 2.61 to 4.81 billion, sending 3.7 trillion messages. The Asian markets are expected to grow the fastest, comprising 50% of the subscriber base by 2008.

SMS accounts for approximately 75-80% of carrier’s non-voice plan revenue, with voice plans comprising 80% of worldwide mobile revenue. …

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The guys over at (a productivity suite) released today a new mobile nightlife service called Down2Night. Down2Night lets you use your cell phone to post and receive notices of events that are going on at your favorite local venues. Seattle is the first city covered by the service.

We covered earlier, but their SMS service is for nightlife deals instead of coupons. Down2Night adds a web interface that lets you add events and chose the …

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Yahoo! made three announcements today at 3GSM in Barcelona: the release of Yahoo! Go mobile 2.0 (Gamma), pre-loading on LG handsets, and the launch of its mobile ad network. Yahoo! Go is the mobile part of Yahoo!’s three screen initiative to optimize their services for PC, TV, and mobile.

Yahoo! Go is a downloadable application that gives users access to search, maps, mail, sports, Flickr, news, finance, entertainment, and weather. …