IDC Selects 10 Wireless Entertainment Companies to Watch in 2007: Small Players That Could Have Big Impact.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Wireless entertainment is one of the most dynamic and innovative segments of the wireless industry today. Players in the mobile entertainment space are consolidating at a rapid pace, which in part, is strengthening the dominance of the industry's top players. However, the supply chain remains full of smaller companies. IDC believes some of these companies have the potential to make a fairly significant impact on the future direction of the wireless entertainment industry. In this study, IDC highlights Loopt, Medio Systems, Millennial Media Millennial Media is a mobile advertising company that sells advertising solutions. Their products incldue mobile ad-servers to monetize mobile content. , Mobio Networks, Nellymoser, ooober, PeerMe, ShoZu, The Hyperfactory, and Trilibis Mobile as the 10 emerging wireless entertainment companies to watch in 2007. IDC research suggests these companies are some of the most interesting and innovative small companies in the wireless entertainment sector, yet few in the broader telecom industry have heard of them. These 10 emerging players share a similar recipe of innovative technologies, creative approaches to the market, and market experimentation. "Some of the small companies highlighted in this study focus on areas such as mobile advertising/marketing, mobile search, mobile community, and mobile user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as and services, which have become some of the U.S. carriers' top priorities to help drive data usage and revenue," says Julien Blin v. t. & i. 1. To stop; to cease; to desist. n. 1. Cessation; end. 1. a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled with sour cream and folded over. See also blini. , research analyst for IDC's Wireless and Mobile Communications. This IDC study, 10 Emerging Wireless Entertainment Players to Watch in 2007 (IDC #205858), identifies 10 smaller emerging wireless entertainment companies that IDC analysts believe are worthy of particular consideration and may emerge as potentially serious players in the wireless entertainment space. Please note that none of the companies profiled in this report are currently clients of IDC. Meet one-on-one with Julien Blin and other IDC mobile and wireless analysts at IDC's breakfast briefing event on March 28th in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. , during CTIA (1) See CompTIA. 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