ONLINE CASINO MOBILE GAMING MAKES WAVES

Phantom Fiber, a Canadian-based company, is helping bring the online casino world even closer to home as it provides wireless solutions to online casino sites that are eager to offer their game-access capability to players who wish to gamble online from any location at any time without compromising the speed and state-of-the-art graphics of the gambling software.

"Phantom Fiber has established an infrastructure that enables our on-the-go society to seamlessly perform all types of transactions on their mobile devices" said CEO of Phantom Fiber, Jeff Halloran. Recently, one of the largest online casino sites on the Internet entered a partnership with the company to provide fast and slick real-time online casino gambling to its customers.

Casino Room, the online casino, has also adopted this technology by offering its games to mobile users.There has already been a huge surge in mobile/PDA technology, and industry experts predict the mobile online casino gaming revenue will increase by 900 percent in the next three years. With everyone connected today the mobile way, this mobile technology will definitely be the next big frontier for the online casino industry. It's simple, it's fast, and best of all, it's convenient.

So the next time you see someone playing with his or her mobile phone of PDA - they might not be making a grocery list after all. They could be winning major bucks at the online casino!

To read the full story, click here: http://www.onlinecasinoreports.com/news_show.asp?id=1245

MOBILE ONLINE CASINO GAMBLING IS A HIT

Gambling has now gone mobile, and online casino players can enjoy their favorite games from their cell phones or PDA's.

Canadian based company, Phantom Fiber is helping to lead this mobile online gambling revolution. They provide wireless solutions to online casinos that are eager to extend their game-access capability to players who wish to play from any location without compromising the speed and graphics of the software.

Phantom Fiber Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Halloran says, "Phantom Fiber has established an infrastructure that enables our on-the-go society to seamlessly perform all types of transactions on their mobile devices."

One of the largest online casinos, has recently created a partnership with Phantom Fiber to provide fast and slick real-time online gambling to their customers.

CasinoRoom, has also embraced this new technology by offering their games to mobile users.
There has already been a huge increase in mobile/PDA technology, and industry experts expect the mobile online casino gaming revenue to increase by 900% in the next three years.
In order for players to gamble on their mobile, they have to download the mobile software application to their handheld device. Players must register an account, and then funds can be deposited, or withdrawn using an EWallet payment system which is accessible from the mobile.
As almost everyone has a mobile phone - this mobile technology could open up the next big frontier for the online casino industry.

To read the full story, click here: http://www.onlinecasino.org/news/mobile-online-casino-gambling-is-a-hit-1305.php

CIO INSIGHT CONSIDERS MOBILE A STRATEGIC NECESSITY AND ONE OF THE TOP TRENDS FOR 2006.

According to CIO Insight's Trends 2006 Special issue, research concludes that "Mobile Devices Will Become a Strategic Necessity".

Furthermore, the report findings suggest that mobility allow companies to optimize their productivity and extend services. As a result, 60% of the companies polled plan to increase their mobile technology budget.

For enterprises, lower costs associated with mobility have allowed them to realize new gains with mobile technologies through improved data analysis, reduced cycle time and effective invoicing and inventory management.

Mobility was also highly regarded as a key component for a company's overall business strategy in firms with revenues less than $100 million, between $100-$999 million, and for those earning $1 billion or more.

Under business goals, CIO findings concluded that mobile devices would:

• Improve business process (speed, flexibility, agility)
• Increase personal productivity

In addition, enterprises perceived many benefits as a result of mobility in the following order:

• Improve communication or collaboration among employees
• Increased responsiveness to customers
• Improved communication or colloboration with suppliers and partners
• More accurate, effective data capture andanalysis
• Reduced cycle times
• Improved analytics
• Faster and more accurate invoicing
• Improved inventory management

WINDOWS MOBILE LAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL PORTAL.

Windows Mobile by Microsoft has made great strides to push the envelope with its newestmobile operating system called Windows Mobile 5.

In line with this launch, Microsoft opted to develop a mobile-centric portal dedicated to the "5" platform to serve as an educational starting point for users interested in the using devices powered by Windows Mobile.

We says "HATS OFF" to them and to the industry for starting to work together to further the aims of the mobile world. With powerful mobile devices and higher-speed data wireless networks now available from wireless phone companies in addition to powerful features delivered through mobile operating systems such as Windows Mobile, the future is bright for all things mobile.

Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform supports all mobile phones and devices powered by the Windows Mobile platform (PocketPC and mobile phones) including support for Palm, Blackberry devices, java-enabled phones, WAP browser phones and the i-Mode network.

Look at what Windows Mobile has to offer here.

For a collection of BusinessWeek technology reviews on mobile phones and handhelds, click on the links below:

Mobile Phone Reviews
Handheld Reviews

GOLDEN PALACE MOBILE CONTINUES MARKETING BLITZ.

GoldenPalace.com is at it again.

Not taking a breath from the Turin Olympics, the Golden Palace team is off to the races again with a new GoldenPalaceMobile.com marketing campaign.

In February and March 2006, Golden Palace ran a print campaign in High Roller Magazine and continues with a CD mailer campaign to US customers this month.

With a suite of new mobile games, and many more on the horizon, including expanded device support, GoldenPalaceMobile.com has no plans to slow down any time soon!

WIRELESS SURGE IN THE U.S. MARKET CONTINUES.

In a breaking report from RCR Wireless News, the surge for wireless in the US market continued in the fourth quarter.

T-Mobile USA reported a "company record" 1.4 million net customer additions while Verizon Wireless claimed an "industry-record" 2 million net customer additions. Cingular reported a "company record" 1.8 million subscribers during the fourth quarter.

Even more interesting? Verizon Wireless' data services revenue for the year totaled $2.2 billion. More than double its 2004 figure. This spells a turn in a marketplace that was largely biased towards voice service revenue. With data service revenue on the rise, expect more data infrastructure investments to support this trend.

Verizon Wireless reported 23.7 million data customers at the end of 2005, up 43% from 2004 and even touted that 3.5 million customers were using their higher-speed 3G network.

To read the full story, please click here:
http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=25452

SPRINT USA RELEASES WIRELESS CONSUMER USAGE REPORT

According to a ground-breaking study of its customer base, U.S. mobile carrier Sprint has confirmed that a nationwide sampling of 676 consumers use their mobile devices as a makeshift torch in the dark! :-)

In addition, one third of respondents expressed a desire to play games on their phone. What was even more interesting were the places and locations where they played games. The results show that:

• 57% played games while in the doctor's office
• 52% played games while commuting
• 37% played games while waiting in airport terminals
• 32% played games while using the toilet (!)

We thank Sprint USA for sharing these findings with the wireless community. We've learned a lot today. :-)

For the full article, please click here:

http://www.mobileindustry.biz/article.php?article_id=1015

MOBILE GAMES MEAN BUSINESS

According to an Emarketer.com intelligence report, mobile games have grown into a multi-billion dollar market.

James Belcher, Senior Analyst at Emarketer.com states that current worldwide mobile gaming revenue at $2.5 billion has confirmed that mobile gaming is not a fad.

He further concludes that markets with GSM as the dominant protocol allow developers to support the greatest number of handsets. According to www.GSMworld.com, there are over 1.6 billion subscriber's on the GSM network standard alone. Our wireless platform currently supports over 1000 mobile devices worldwide.

How do we do it? Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform is network-agnostic and allows mobile gaming applications to work with two global standards: CDMA2000 (1Xrtt -- also marketed with some wireless providers as "1X ready") and GSM/GPRS (GPRS representing the data wireless portion of the network standard). To the game player, this network support is transparent. They only require a data wireless plan with their local wireless provider and any games powered by Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform will simply work when they play.

Players can take advantage of play for fun and play for real money casino games from many gaming operators powered by Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform.

Perhaps the most interesting and obvious statement from Mr. Belcher: "Powerful branding opportunities arise with the potential to reach a highly-targeted audience wherever they happen to be, including, for the first time, places outside of home and work." Gaming operators realize that reaching the customer beyond the PC is the next channel strategy to help widen their brand reach and improve customer experience and relationships. As a result, gaining a foothold on mobile phones and devices TODAY helps gaming operators extend and build their brand directly in the hands of players.

For the full www.Emarketer.com article, please visit:
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003770 (this January 10th article becomes inaccessible after a certain period of time).

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Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform supports over 1000 mobiles devices powered by Windows Mobile for PocketPC and Smartphone, Palm, Java phones, WAP browser phones, RIM Blackberry 7000 series devices and even the i-Mode network. For additional information regarding Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform, please contact our sales team at sales@phantomfiber.com.

About Phantom Fiber Coporation

Phantom Fiber Corporation (OTCBB: PHFB - News) is the leading developer of wireless platform software that enables our customers to deliver high-performance applications across global communications networks to mobile users. Our wireless platform extends the rich multimedia content and user experience of existing Internet web sites securely and instantly to a wide array of wireless devices including PDAs and programmable cellphones. This platform is already deployed to most segments of the global gaming industry and can be used by enterprises seeking to implement high performance mobile applications in such markets as: remote medical record access by physicians; securities research and trading; and, remote monitoring and the management of logistics and distribution. Phantom Fiber's Advanced Wireless Platform supports over 1000 mobile devices worldwide and includes a host of new features of benefit to gaming operators serving a global audience.