Based in Mountain View, California, Ribbit - "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company" - provides an open platform which enables developers to create new and innovative voice applications and services by combining telephony and internet technologies in new ways.... read more at Ribbit

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- For all the love that marketers show iPhone apps, these micro-utilities and tools actually generate surprisingly little buzz in return.... read more at Crimson Hexagon

AARP Endorses the House Health Care Bill and turns to Mobile Commons to Drive Calls to Congress. While we can't take all the credit for the bill passing, we are proud to be the choice for so many organizations - including the AARP - to drive their grass roots advocacy for so this historic bill. AARP members who were signed up to receive mobile alerts through Mobile Commons received a text Friday morning asking them to call their Congressional representatives.... read more at Mobile Commons

Digital Media Wire today unveiled its 2010 "25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment" list, recognizing emerging leaders in the digital media and entertainment industry. The honorees will be profiled online at www.digitalmediainsider.com and will be recognized in a special January feature on the DMWmedia.com website. Digital Media Wire will honor the group at an exclusive reception for industry leaders, members of the press and special guests at the 3rd Annual Digital Media Insider @ CES at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas on January 8.... read more at My Damn Channel

AMD (NYSE: AMD) and Pixelux Entertainment announced a joint development agreement that is part of the AMD effort to greatly expand the use of real-time physics with graphics through the open source Bullet Physics engine. By encouraging development of physics middleware built around OpenCL™ and Bullet Physics, AMD and Pixelux offer a route toward physics simulation that spans game consoles, PCs and other hardware platforms... read more at Pixelux