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Mob Wars – a largely text based strategy game that throws users into a virtual underworld of organized crime – has become a Facebook phenomenon, with 2,680,129 monthly active users and monthly revenues rumored to exceed $1 million. The game isn’t the first of its kind (in fact, similar text-based games have been around for many years), but it is among the first to go truly mainstream.  Now Y Combinator startup Addmired is looking to capitalize on the popularity of Mob Wars and its ilk by developing a new game for the iPhone dubbed iMob Online. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/15/imob-hits-the-iphone-prepare-to-become-an-addict 1/15)

Wireless carriers and handset makers could offer rich multimedia content pre-loaded on flash-memory devices under new content-protection technology LG and SanDisk are developing in which carriers can offer premium services that they limit to their subscribers, the companies announced Wednesday. The Smart Card Web Server verifies the user’s rights to view content through data on their SIM cards as the memory card works as a network node carriers can control from their facilities. InformationWeek (1/14)