Mobizzo is an entertainment service offering trivia games on mobile phones and smartphones, from Fox Mobile Distribution [1]. Trivia games are played via SMS-text and mobile web. Mobizzo has sites online [2] and on mobile web/WAP.
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Trivia questions are varied from sports, general knowledge, movies, music, pop culture and entertainment. Tickets are earned with the start of each quiz and for every correct answer. Tickets can then be redeemed for rewards or to enter sweepstakes prizes. Monthly subscribers get a new quiz each day. They can also pay (per quiz) to take more quizzes on any day.
Mobizzo works on any phone that can send text messages and on smartphones with mobile browsers. As of 2010, these U.S. carriers are supported: AT&T, Alltel, Centennial, EKN, Cellular South, nTelos, Rural Cellular Corp., Bluegrass, ECIT, Cellcom, Cincinnati Bell, Dobson.
Fox Mobile Distribution [5] is a division of News Corporation's Digital Media Group [3]. See also, w:Jamba!.
According to Business Wire [4], Mobizzo used to be a different mobile service launched by News Corporation's Fox Mobile Entertainment in 2007, offering: "games, music, general entertainment and more - from across News Corp.'s worldwide divisions, as well as from other media companies."
Mobizzo.com
Fox Mobile Distribution
News Corporation Digital Media Group