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Cradling laptop bags while busily chattering into mobile phones, Bedouin workers travel nomadically between internet cafes stopping briefly to drink in equal doses of bandwidth and espresso, momentarily satisfying an unquenchable urge to stay caffeinated on the go. On Wednesday, Igor and begin our ultimate Bedouin experience, traveling to CeBIT in Hannover, Germany to observe trends in mobile media creation.

Jim's second day at CTIA yielded some very interesting insights into tools for developers of mobile content, including a service that gives the developer access to a "farm" of over 200 handsets, connected to all the major US networks and hacked to provide their user interface back to subscribers to this service via their web browser.

Jim Udall, our technical lead for the mobile muse project, took some time out of his busy schedule at the recent CTIA event in Los Angeles, to talk with me about some of the developments he's been seeing down there.