It's easy enough to pick wireless partners today: look for the big wireless service providers and major  equipment vendors (with names like Motorola [1], Nokia [2], LG [3], or Samsung [4]) and you can have a safe deployment history in most cases. What about companies for future partnerships? This article features nine companies you should keep on your radar screen. If names like a la Mobile, emoze, Formotus, and Kore Telematics aren't familiar, you have some homework to do.

For more on up and coming companies:
- read the in-depth report [5] at NetworkWorld