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FierceMobileContent's third annual Top Mobile Applications Awards winners have been announced.  They reflect the changes sweeping across the industry they honor,a new wave of practical, prosumer-oriented mobile services and tools that simplify and improve the day-to-day lives of a consumer segment in perpetual motion.

The Winners are

Cellfire http://www.cellfire.com/ - mobile coupons.

CellSpin http://www.cellspin.net/ - microblogging enables users to post content to destinations such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal and eBay,

CTA BusTracker http://www.cleverdevices.com/  - this GPS application delivers to web-enabled devices transit information for Chicago commuters.

E*Trade Mobile Pro - integrated mobile software solution promising users direct remote access to their E*Trade accounts from their BlackBerry smartphones.

MightyBackup - restores both user-generated content and licensed premium content in the event a handset is lost, stolen or replaced, enabling consumers to efficiently migrate contacts, photos, ringtones, games and other applications to a new device for $2.00 a month

Movial Social Communicator http://www.movial.fi/en/index.html - brings together Internet calling, user-generated content, unified messaging and web and video feeds to enable content sharing and real-time communication across mobile handsets, PCs, IP set-top boxes and Internet tablet devices.

Remember the Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ -web-based task management and time-organization application.

Skyfire http://www.skyfire.com/ - a free, carrier-agnostic mobile browser application wih PC-caliber experience, complete with lightning-fast page downloads, complete audio and video capabilities, and support for Flash, Java, Ajax and other multimedia formats.

Sniff https://www.sniffu.com/ - (Social Network Integrated Friend Finder) is a permission-based mobile application enabling users to locate their personal contacts in real-time, anytime and anywhere, via SMS.

VZ Navigator from http://www.networksinmotion.com/ - delivers information on traffic incidents, commuter updates and detour tips as well as 3D maps, a movie and events finder, weather reports and gas pricing data for $9.99 a month

More information available at Fierce Mobile Content.