CTIA 2007 Wire: Pre-Conference; Mercora In MS Deal, Adobe Offers Mobile Tools, Smaato Signs Customer

Mercora has added more than 7,000 podcast channels to the 100,000+ music channels to its M service, which streams music to Windows Mobile 5 or 6 handsets for $50 per year. It’s also signed up Microsoft to promote its offering — starting Tuesday, Microsoft will offer M as a free six-month subscription to all Windows Mobile users, with the application available for download from the Windows Mobile site directly to phones. (News.com)

Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 includes a component aimed at people developing content for mobiles, integrated across Adobe products like Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. It allows developers to see how the content will look on more than 100 brands of phones, as well as in different situations such as direct sunlight, with and without backlighting, different levels of battery power and service signal strength. (CNet)

Smaato has signed up some new customers for its ad-technology. Last week it announced Red Herring (PDF) and Handmark (PDF), and on Tuesday at CTIA it announced iambic, Sendandsee, SplashData and Spb Software House.

–Texas Instruments will sell a new chip that lets mobile phones project images on any flat surface so consumers can share photos on the go by 2009, reports Bloomberg. The chip will help phones project images (still or video) up to 20 inches (50cm) wide.

ClearSky Mobile Media has launched Talk2Me, a downloadable Brew application that connects to ClearSky

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