The MoPR Blog

Over the weekend we’re headed to Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless 2008. If you are going to be there too and would like to meet up, drop us a line at ctia@mobilitypr.com.

Our whole crew will be blogging about the new cool mobile tech companies that we see at the show and will have lots of info to share from Monday nights’ Showstoppers Press Event at the Wynn hotel where Melissa and Grace will be our on-the-ground reporters.

More than 40 companies will be showcasing their technology from Showstoppers and we look forward to reviewing our favorites and filling you in on all we see there.

Here are a just a few of the most interesting companies we expect to learn more about from Showstoppers Monday night:

Bamboo MediaCasting
Mobile media without the wait; automatically delivered, subscription-based, crystal-clear, rich-media programming that is stored in a mobile phone’s memory so it plays immediately — no downloading, no streaming, no buffering.

Caringo
Reimagines content storage. Not a 30-year-old file system. Simple. Hardware agnostic. Massively scalable. Information integrity.

Digby
Named a Top App of 2007 by FierceMobileContent, the Digby mobile commerce platform is the easiest and fastest way to let people buy from popular retailers like Barnes and Noble, Godiva, Best Buy and many more, right from their phones.

Gemalto
What happens in your SIM stays in your SIM, from mobile payment to the mobile Web; ask Gemalto how to stack the security deck in your favor.

iSkin
Innovative protective solutions for the iPod, PowerBook and other Apple products.

Kentrox Inc.
Eliminates the #1 reason people switch mobile providers.

Kingston Technology
Kingston’s family of mobile products grows by one member — Latin music sensation Ricky Martin.

Kwingo
Kwingo (rhymes with Bingo!) puts a smile on the face of folks who work in multi-language enterprises by providing them with fast, free, frequently-needed workplace phrases in any second language on any web-enabled handheld.

LiveWire Mobile
Fresh out of the gate comes LiveWire Mobile after its recent acquisition of Groove Mobile.

magicJack
$40 USB device that provides unlimited, land-line quality phone service from any destination in the world to the US and Canada for a year.

mSpot Inc.
mSpot applications help wireless carriers deliver innovative music services
- be it streaming radio, or Make-UR-Tones, a customizable ringtone service or Remix, turning your phone into an MP3-like player.

Plantronics
Offers the first look at the new Discovery(tm) 925 Bluetooth earpiece collection, a new signature line of designer headsets for men and women.

Sharpcast Inc.
Sync Different! Throw out your sync cables, feel free to turn your computer off when you leave the home or office and never again think about emailing a file to yourself so you can work on it later. Sharpcast does for your digital media what Blackberry did for corporate email - always with you, always backed up and always available on your phone, your PC and the web.

Utterz
The mobile multi-media social connection to any site, for anyone with a mobile phone or computer, announces the mobile site for utterz — M.utterz.com

Zeemote Inc.
Let the mobile games begin! For the first time, reporters can go head-to-head with multiplayer games on their mobile phones using the newly launched Zeemote JS1 controllers. Playing these games, they can experience a near-console experience, enhancing the interaction between gamers by providing a more realistic and engaging experience.

Stay tuned for reviews, observations, and updates from the show floor!

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