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Opera to showcase their latest mobile phone and device products for the iPhone and Android at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. Final versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 will also be on display on many of today’s most popular handset platforms, including Symbian S60, Windows Mobile 6.5, J2ME and RIM Blackberry. Both products were released earlier this week, bringing Opera’s new user interface and feature set to market.

Mobile content service and technology vendor m-Wise (MWIS) announced its consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2009 rose to $3,166,276, up 12% from $2,833,626 in 2008. Income from license fees and products increased 65% to $795,096 for the year ended December 31, 2009 from $481,116 for the same period in 2008. Gross Profit for the year ended December 31, 2009 rose to $2,269,019, up 31% from $1,727,526 in 2008. General and administrative expenses decreased 14% to $1,662,859 for the year ended December 31, 2009 from $1,940,732 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Research and development expenses decreased 28% to $548,673 for the year ended December 31, 2009 from $758,693 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Net Profit for the year ended December 31, 2009, was $82,985 compared with a net loss of $1,035,722 in 2008.

Never-before-heard content, “Prank Calls” now available on the new iPod Touch and iPhone as an iPhone applications. Jerky Boys creator Johnny Brennan and Inner Four bring the classic comedy act to mobile devices though without Kamal who left the act in 2000. Two new iPod Touch and iPhone apps will feature all-new content from Jerky Boys creator Johnny Brennan. One app features never-before-heard prank calls and content, while the other features a fun pinball application. Too bad Kamal isn’t involved, we think he added flavor to the act.

Mobile content technology vendor, m-Wise (OTCBB: MWIS) announces its newly formed relationship with Malaco Music Group. Malaco currently has an impressive 2,000 hits on their website each day, and forecasts a significant lift in this number with the launch of their ringtone offering. This feature will be promoted virtually through their website, blogspot, Twitter and on physical CDs.

The global mobile phone content retailer, Mobile Streams (strategic partner of Liberty Media), announces the off-portal launch of its popular mobile internet store, www.Ringtones.com.

Ringtones.com is powered by Mobile Streams’ technology platform, MultiMobi. Designed and built by Mobile Streams, MultiMobi ensures that customers have an uncomplicated shopping experience with advanced features such as: arrival reactivity, storefront personalization, dynamic content generation and one-click purchasing.

Virgin Mobile USA gets Opera Mini mobile browser for the web that allows people to surf the web on their mobile phones fast and intuitively. Opera Mini will be available as a free application download on select devices for Virgin Mobile USA prepaid customers via the VirginXL download storefront. In the future, Opera Mini will come pre-installed on selected Virgin Mobile USA handsets.

Ringtones just got personal. New mSpot.com’s mobile editing tool gives music fans the ringtones they want. To make things really sweet for your cell phone, mSpot kicks off mobile software launch with ringtone giveaway. How does it work? Users pick a song from mSpot’s catalog of over 400,000 titles, and use the site’s simple editing tool to drag the start and end points to capture up to 30 seconds of their favorite part, even adding an optional fade in and out feature at each end if they like.

With Mozilla turning the tide on the traditional web browser front it comes as no surprise that the smart folks wouldn’t want a piece of the mobile market. Speed, performance and features may make Fennec a force to be reckoned with in the mobile browser front. While we at MobileMage.com haven’t got our hands on the beta yet, fear not, the geeks here will be watching the ensuing mobile browser wars and provide as much news and objective reviews as possible.

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Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq:GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, announced the worldwide launch of the mobile game based on DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: DWA) highly-anticipated film, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” which comes to theaters in the U.S. on March 27, 2009. This marks the second mobile game to be developed and published by Glu based on DreamWorks Animation’s hit films, following the 2008 release of “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.”

Mobile Streams announced that it will launch HBO Mobile, a mobile internet retail portal for the premium television network Home Box Office (HBO).
The HBO Mobile retail site will offer personalization content (i.e. ringtones and wallpapers) from popular and award-winning HBO shows such as Flight of the Conchords, Big Love, True Blood, Rome, Entourage, The Sopranos, Sex and the City and The Wire.