Article: Silicon Valley goes mobile / Up to 100 startups get into the game with wireless applications for cell phones

Eh, bien, oui, oui, na, j’adore les pommes de terre au lard. (an obscure line from an Ionesco play)

Link: Silicon Valley goes mobile / Up to 100 startups get into the game with wireless applications for cell phones.

[quote 1] For Sievers, establishing the startup in the Bay Area was a must. "It’s less about where the (cell phone) carrier is. It’s about where are the best people and capital and open ideas to drive fresh mobile ideas," co-founder and CEO Sievers said.

[quote 2] "We’ve basically created the technology structure for the Internet here. Now as fixed line and mobile Internet converge, you’re seeing the expertise in this region come to bear that you don’t see in other places like San Diego, Atlanta or Boston," said Stephen Burke, chief managing officer of mBuzzy, a ring tone and game provider in San Mateo.

Basically: OK, OK, I get the picture!