The CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show kicks off tomorrow, but no one wastes a minute getting news out. Here’s just a sampling of what’s going on today:

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) provides Developer Community details: In advance of CTIA, Verizon Wireless released a number of announcements about its developer community. It said more than 1,000 developers have joined its community, and that V CAST Apps remains on track to launch later this year. It will be working with a number of partners, including Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), which will help developers monitor and measure revenues and usage information, and DeviceAnywhere, which will help developers test their applications remotely and reduce the time and resources required to develop, monitor and deploy apps.

mPortal partners with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Cricket: McLean, Va.-based mPortal, which works with cable and other operators to launch mobile content and applications, said it is working with both Comcast and Cricket. mPortal helped Comcast launch its iPhone app, which provides some Comcast experiences on the go. In addition, it said it’s working with Cricket Communications to create a service called MyHomeScreen, which will help users find mobile data services, directly from the “home screen” of certain handsets.

Mojiva’s mOcean Mobile creates mobile ad serving platform: mOcean, the mobile advertising platform recently launched by Mojiva, has created a free mobile ad serving platform for iPhone and other smartphone application developers. Called mOcean for Apps, the tool will help developers monetize their apps by selling and managing their own mobile ad space. In addition, it promises to increase downloads by using a portion of their ad revenue to promote the apps. The platform is expect to launch next month. The platform will be free, but a premium version will be sold, offering more features.

Ontela says the phone has killed the camera: Ontela, which provides photo-uploading software from the phone to the PC and other photo-sharing sites, is releasing results from a survey, saying that the death of the traditional film camera is near in the U.S. While the number of people who report owning a traditional film camera decreased from 67 percent in 2007 to 48 percent in 2009, camera phones have grown from 70 percent in 2007 to 87 percent in 2009.