Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has launched its mobile service in one of the biggest and most competitive mobile markets in the world: India. It has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement…

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Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging markets, drove worldwide phone sales to 1.15 billion last…

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Tokyo-based Morpho, a developer of mobile imaging technology, has raised an unspecified investment from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, Nokia’s VC arm. Established in 2004, the company has developed technology…

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The mobile phone is too complex for users to feel comfortable using them to buy physical goods, however, consumers in the U.S. and the U.K., say they are likely to…

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Growth in the U.S. telecom industry will accelerate a whole percentage point to 9.3 percent in 2008 over last year and is unlikely to be significantly impacted by a broader…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

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David Collier, who runs a mobile content provider in Tokyo called Pikkle, told developers today at GDC Mobile how Japanese game developers are avoiding two of the industry’s biggest headaches—sharing…

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Shipments of handsets that run Japan’s mobile digital TV service OneSeg has hit 20 million less than two years after its launch, reports IDG News. According to Japan’s Telecommunications Carrier…

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NYT discovers that the 1.4 million missing iPhones (not registered on their respective networks in U.S. and Europe) have landed up in, lo and behold, China. Well, a lot of…

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Several reports came out this week saying that unwanted text messages, or spam, sent to the mobile phone is on the rise. Quoting a report by mobile security firm Cloudmark,…

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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son warned operators they risked becoming “dumb pipes,” if they did not move swiftly to control mobile content, reports TotalTelecom. Speaking on Wednesday at the MWC, Son…

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Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloaded mobile game in December, according to M:Metrics, which…

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India’s diversified digital media group Spice is using Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to unveil three pieces of hardware, including this “Movie Phone” - a film-centric handset that plays titles…

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Korean handset maker LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) doesn’t want Motorola’s handset business either, reports Dow Jones (via Cellular News). Indeed, LG Electronics CEO for mobile Skott Ahn said the company…

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Global media investment management firm Group M has created an alliance with mobile technology provider Celltick to develop a joint mobile advertising venture in the Asia Pacific Region for cellphone…

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Third quarter profits at Japan’s smallest mobile phone network Softbank grew by more than six times, boosted by the November Hong Kong Exchange listing of Alibaba.com, the B2B marketplace for…

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CDC Corp. will increase its investment to Japanese 3G mobile content provider BBMF. The new investment will increase CDC’s total investment in BBMF to approximately $10 million. Based in Tokyo,…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) released its interim results for the quarter ending 31 December 2007 Thursday. Third quarter revenues climbed 15.8 percent to £9.2 billion ($18.3 billion), fuelled by strong growth…

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Japan’s largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) released its earnings for the nine months ending December 2007 today, which includes its third quarter results. From October through December,…

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Some analysts have looked at Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone sales figures (3.75 million) and AT&Ts activation figures (bit less than 2 million) and rather than conclude there’s almost a million…

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BroadWebAsia, an investment firm started by Brad Greenspan, has offered to buy a majority share of Chinese mobile content and applications provider Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), challenging a November offer from…

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At the World Economic Forum, Jianzhou Wang, the CEO of China Mobile says the company is anticipating future declines in the Asian stock market. To capitalize on the falling asset…

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South Korea’s largest operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has struck a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment to bring more than 200 Hollywood blockbusters, including Spiderman 3 and The…

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-- Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) Mobile Launches in Italy: Telecom Italia has launched Napster Mobile in Italy. The service, co-developed by Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and Napster will give subscribers access to…

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Japan is one of the countries looking to filter the mobile internet “for the sake of the children”, and Infinita has some details of the proposed regulations: “As well as…

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