China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. It will focus on mobile…

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Ad-funded free MVNO Blyk reports that it has 100,000 clients in Britain after being operational for six months—that’s half a year ahead of schedule. Blyk said the ad campaigns “had…

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London-based mobile games developer, publisher and distributor Telcogames has gone in to administration, we can reveal after confirming with CEO Jamie Conyngham. The company was placed in to the administration…

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The iPhone vs Europe battle royale has gotten a piece in the International Herald Tribune, which links the rumors of a possible change in iPhone business strategy in Italy with…

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Mobile/web/IM status messaging service Twitter has launched its first localization in Japan. Tokyo has more Twitterers than even its native San Francisco. Unlike Twitter.com, Twitter.jp includes display ads. First…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still trails Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) in online search in China but has high hopes for mobile growth, Google’s China president Lee Kai-Fu said in an interview with…

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Update: Corrected: I got it wrong the first time...the other way around: Zyb bought Imity. Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG is the second record label to join Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music pre-bundled music initiative. At a London joint press conference, the pair said Nokia…

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The latest iPhone rumor has been sparked by an article in Italian paper La Repubblica, which claims that the 3G UMTS iPhone will hit Italy in the summer of this…

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By the end of 2007 there were more than 17 million mobile TV users in Asia, according to Media Partners Asia and reported by Asia Media Journal. While that’s a…

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In UK, Ofcom has released the bidders for the L-Band block of spectrum sitting between 1452 and 1492 MHz (the PDF is here). There’s only nine bidders, and some of…

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If only it were that easy…Japanese network NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has unveiled a new corporate logo (pictured, right), which it says will help stop its subscribers from switching…

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London, UK-based mobile start-up GoSpoken has launched a mobile service that allows users to browse, buy and download audio books. The service is compatible with 3G phones, but the company…

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Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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O2 UK - not known for being the most ambitious of carriers on data strategy - has followed Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), T-Mobile, 3 UK and even Orange by launching its…

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Mobile data services are picking up—at least in Australia, according to the results of a survey of 949 Australians. The survey found an increasing proportion of people using mobile data…

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Japan’s KDDI will launch visual search on its Spring 2008 au line of camera phones, and will make the application available for download to current customers with an au camera…

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British mobile VoIP service Truphone has raised a big £16.5 million ($32.6 million) in second-round funding from its existing backers, led by private investors. Independent News & Media and German…

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Mobile music is again the shining light in Japan, making up for the decline in CD sales. “Total music sales for 2007 in Japan came to JPY 466 billion (US…

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FT.com has added Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to the unsubstantiated list of companies interested in buying on-the-block Italian broadband/telco/IPTV group Tiscali, which yesterday set a May 5 sale deadline. Tiscali’s UK…

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Business Standard reports, quoting “Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) retail sources” that the iPhone will be launched in India the first week of September with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). We have not been…

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The market for mobile TV in India will hit $360 million in revenue and 12 million customers according to Springboard Research—which would be impressive considering that there is currently only…

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As Motorola (NYSE: MOT) sinks, its rivals rise. LG Electronics (SEO: 066570), the world’s fifth largest handset maker by market share, posted a net profit in the first quarter after…

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-- 3UK/Fun Text: 3 UK is adding Fun Text - a cutesy picture messaging service - to its Planet 3 mobile web portal. Cambridge-based Fun Text - which routes basic…

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Last week Sony Ericsson and Def Jam announced a limited edition Def Jam W910i phone with some exclusive videos and music tracks from Def Jam artists (covered here). Reuters has…

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