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Mobile Technology

In the past decade, cell phone use has exploded around the world: more than a billion mobile phones were sold in 2007 alone. Hundreds of new mobile applications have been launched to meet the demand for innovative new services, even as Web browsers have improved content delivery.

Gaming for the Small Screen

According to Mike Pagano, producer at EA Tiburon Mobile, the greatest boon to mobile gaming has been the release of the iPhone. “We’re seeing a huge change in the quality of content,” says Pagano, “and mobile gaming is a major growth industry right now.”

With graphics that rival those of gaming consoles, and with its touch screen and accelerometer, which tracks a user’s movements, the iPhone has allowed EA Tiburon to develop versions of its popular games for the small screen, according to Pagano. For instance, the company, which has offices in California and Florida, released Spore for mobile gamers in September to much acclaim.

“The mobile market had flatlined,” says Pagano, “because people wanted bigger, better games, and standard cell phones were limited. Now we see a big change in the quality of content that we can provide.”

EA Tiburon has a number of original mobile games currently under development.

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Searching for the Mobile Web: Industry leaders hope that new technologies will make mobile search more usable.

Search technology has transformed the way that people use the Internet and has made piles of money for giants like Google.

Firefox on Your Cell Phone: Can Fennec, Mozilla's new mobile browser, compete?

With the iPhone, Apple showed how to surf the Web on the small screen. Now, it seems, a modern version of the browser wars of the 1990s could be shaping up, with the battleground being the mobile phone.

Opening the Airwaves: By opening up its network, Verizon Wireless hopes to see all sorts of new devices connect.

Wireless carriers are famous for controlling the devices and software that they allow on their networks. Apple's iPhone, for example, is locked for use on AT&T's network only. But one carrier is set to adopt a much more open approach to wireless access.

Apple's iPhone: An inside look at a sensation.

Apple's latest offering proves that revolutionary tech products don't have to be that revolutionary. Upon the iPhone's release, enthusiasts around the world rushed to tear it apart, eager to see something new.

The Future of Mobile Social Networking: Whrrl combines activity recommendations with real-time location data.

The software enables something Pelago's chief technology officer, Darren Erik Vengroff, calls social discovery: using the iPhone's map and self-location features, as well as information about the prior activities of the user's friends, Whrrl proposes new places to explore or activities to try.

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