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JiWire closes $11 million in venture capital funding to expand largest mobile audience. Panorama Capital leads Series B financing to specifically fuel mobile audience and advertiser growth. Panorama Capital is joined by new investor Comcast Interactive Capital and existing investor DFJ Frontier. JiWire claims to be the first company to leverage wireles Internet as a means to advertise, with 20 million unique users and 25,000 Wi0Fi hotspots I wonder if they’ve managed to engage these visitors as customers.

Opera brings full Web browsing to new Ford trucks and vans. Opera browser selected by Ford to bring the full Web to the world’s first broadband-capable, in-dash computer system – part of Ford Work Solutions technology package for Ford trucks and vans.

Skuku teams with TriaGnoSys to provide roaming-free, inflight GSM calls / cell phone services to commercial airline passengers. By taking advantage of existing technology, including in-seat screens, seat-back phones and Internet connectivity, the new service will allow airlines to offer roaming-free voice and SMS functions to their passengers and will not require the installation of any onboard GSM equipment. Skuku is an international communications company specializing in network based telephony solutions.

Vodafone announces agreement with Opera Software to enhance mobile Internet experience on mobile devices, mobile phones and handsets. Vodafone has signed an agreement with Opera Software to develop a custom-made version of the mobile browser Opera Mini aimed at giving customers with low and mid priced handsets a high quality mobile internet experience on the go.

Mobile marketing solution debuts. 84444.com is a new do-it-yourself mobile marketing tool for advertisers and promoters. With 84444.com, mobile companies and businesses can launch interactive and broadcast text message mobile promotions with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Truphone now available in the United States and UK and at launch in Germany and Austria. Make low cost international calls from any Android G1 phone. Truphone customers can also easily Instant Message their friends across a variety of networks including MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Twitter from within one Android application.

Truphone turns your fun iPod touch into a useful and productive mobile phone device. With Truphone you can make free phone calls to other iPod touch owners and it doesn’t require a SIM, contract and money. Just tell them to download the free Truphone application and voila!

Launch on Kirusa Voice SMS platform enables Vodafone subscribers to send Voice SMS messages across India. any Vodafone customer can send a Voice SMS message to a mobile subscriber, anywhere in India, for a fixed price of 75 paise (approximately USD 0.01) per minute. The Voice SMS service is available to both prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

NEXAGE powers mobile rich media service for Versaly Entertainment. Versaly brings one of the largest libraries of mobile content to users globally on Nexage’s PhoneCast solution.

Tatango.com, a service that allows any business owner to send one message directly from their mobile phone or computer to all of their customers mobile phone in the form of a text message, for free. Tatango allows any owner to collect, manage, and advertise to a specific group of customers. The great thing about taking advertisements mobile, simply is that it allows the business to connect with their customers anytime, anywhere. Tatango will be the simplest, most effective, mobile group communication tool available.

Tatango is the rebirth of networkText, a website that grew to over 400,000 users and 15 million text messages sent, following their launch in October 2007. Currently, Tatango is in the final stages of development and will be launching into a private beta on July 15th. I am contacting you to see if you would like exclusive beta invitations for both yourself and your readers. I have attached several screenshots of Tatango, and also a video testimonial from Reset Games General Manager, Shaun Marker.