Help me find US mobile companies outside of Silicon Valley

I was recently in Silicon Valley and was once again reminded of the self-reflective nature of the place – they fund folks in the Valley to run services in the Valley for people in the Valley to flourish or crumble in the Valley – with little regard for those outside the Valley.

Oh, yes, there are a ton of great companies there doing great things for everyone. But, my particular interest is in cool companies outside of Silicon Valley. Indeed, I have seen some interesting mobile companies (or great services that should be mobilized) in Vancouver, Seattle, New York, Boston, and Chicago (I’m not counting the great ones who have or soon will succumb to the call of California).

I would love to hear about young non-California (let’s stick to the US for now) companies that are doing cool stuff with mobile, or who have cool services that need to be mobilized.

I am personally most interested in Boston-area companies, but would love to hear about all other areas too.

Care to help out?

UPDATE 24nov05: I’m getting wink-wink, nudge-nudge from folks who know me (and my restless nature at the moment), but this really is a genuine question that is important for all those companies outside of Silicon Valley who have to work harder to get respect in the tech and mobile field. This question arose after finding that all roads I found were leading to Silicon Valley. I am just curious to know of other roads.

The Boston focus is, yes, partly a personal thing. But Boston was really big in the telecom networks and big iron days of the 70s and 80s and I expected mobile to also be big there, what with MIT, Worcester Polytech, the big VC firms, and the big analyst firms. Boston is the Hub for Biomedicine (been there, done that). Could it be the Hub for mobile communications, too?