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"From smart meters and smarter street lights to distance learning apps and even implanted medical devices, the power and potential of mobile innovation is all around us, and US innovation increasingly centers around mobile.\r\n\r\nNames like Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg require no explanation and have become synonymous with American entrepreneurialism and progress in the digital age. Just six years ago, there was no iPhone or Android.\u00A0 Four years ago, a tablet was a relic from the Stone Age.\u00A0 Today, a majority of Americans wield a smartphone\u00A0and one-third of us have added a tablet.\r\n\r\nAlready, there are more mobile devices than people in the world, and Americans spend nearly two and a half hours each day interacting with wireless devices.\u00A0 And that doesn\u2019t include the 24 minutes daily we spend engaged in the distinctly retro activity of talking on the phone.\r\n\r\nAdd to this super-usage the recent projection that 99% of products that will ultimately connect to the Internet\u2014from clothes to text books to refrigerators\u2014have yet to do so, and it\u2019s no surprise that data traffic on mobile networks is expected to grow 700-fold from 2007 to 2017.\r\n\r\nPowering all that growth is possibility\u2014a world of entrepreneurs working in garages, WiFi cafes and university campuses\u2014who are busy creating the next step forward\u2014from pioneering applications and devices to services that are transforming our nation\u2019s health, education, civic engagement and economy and making lasting and positive differences in our communities.\r\n\r\nIt all begs the never-ending question:\u00A0 What\u2019s next? \u00A0To help find some answers, Mobile Future has launched The Mobileys, a new national competition to spotlight and support early-stage wireless apps, services and/or products that make the world a better place.\r\n\r\nWinners will have more than bragging rights.\u00A0 First prize is $10,000, and the total purse for the contest is $20,000.\u00A0 We want to elevate and celebrate the next wave of big ideas and the visionaries behind them who will power the next wave of mobile progress.\r\n\r\nApplications are welcome through the October 21, 2013 deadline.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s clear that mobile innovation is bringing change at a blistering pace. We need to continue to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit and technological vision that applies all this potential to improving the world around us. So what will be the next new things? That\u2019s an open question, and we\u2019re excited see the next generation of answers.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0The\u00A0Mobileys"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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