Mickey Mouse loves you ... and your phone

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In last year’s Wilder-esque In Good Company Topher Grace becomes a marketing wunderkind by marketing cell phones shaped like dinosaurs for the "untapped under-five market." Someone at Disney must have been paying attention, because they’ve just signed a deal with Sprint to create Disney-branded content for phones. The deal, reported yesterday in Newsday, allows both companies to better target kids, who are one of the fastest growing segments of cell phone users; some 40 percent of kids aged 12 to 14 owned cell phones at the end of last year, up from just 13 percent in 2002.

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