• Alltel will offer its customers Pacific DataVision’s SkyMail service for wireless dictation.  The resale deal will being with business customers.

• Qwest, which recently switched its cell phone sales from Sprint Nextel to Verizon Wireless, now says its customers can start buying the Verizon products.

• Mobile social network MocoSpace snagged Jim Scheinman for its board of directors.  Scheinman was an investor in and the first employee of desktop social networking player Bebo.

• Namco Networks and USA Today announced the availability of USA Today Txtpert on mobile phones, a word puzzle game that tests consumers’ texting abilities. USA Today Txtpert by Namco is the mobile version of the word puzzle that recently launched in USA Today.

• mBlox announced that Ken Elmer has joined the company as CFO. Previously, Elmer was with Tiburon, and before that, he was a division level CFO at Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis Group, as well as CFO at Visionael, The MapFactory and TCSI.

• Otter Products is partnering with Moftware to offer cases for the BlackBerry and iPhone  in India, the U.K. and the United States. Cases will be sold on Fommy.com, a global site of smartphones, cell phones and accessories, and Fommy.co.in, a sister site for retailing specifically in India.