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Will TD-SCDMA “Hobble” China Mobile? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 30 May 2008 04:27 AM PST

When China announced it was overhauling its telecoms industry last Saturday, it also said it would finally be issuing 3G licenses once the process was completed, which analysts believe will…

China Mobile Opens Experience Shops To Push TD-SCDMA - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 29 May 2008 01:44 PM PST

China Mobile has opened some TD-SCDMA “experience shops” to push its soft launch of the service in 8 cities, reports ABI Research. The idea is to let the public experiment…

Jamba Quitting Mobile Games Development, Shutting Ojom Unit - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 09:46 AM PST

Rafat was almost right on the button. In a meeting today, Jamba decided to stop developing its own mobile games, so is shutting its Ojom development unit. Berlin-based Ojom is…

Hutchison Telecom Plans To Sell iPhone in Hong Kong, Macau Later This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 29 May 2008 08:59 AM PST

Hutchison Telecommunications International said today that it signed an agreement with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau later this year, reports AP. The announcement…

PCCW To Consolidate TMT Units And Sell 45 Percent Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 29 May 2008 02:12 AM PST

Hong Kong telecoms firm PCCW announced today it plans to reorganize its telecoms, media and information technology businesses into a holding company and offer 45 percent of the new firm—to…

France Issues Mobile Broadcast TV Channels - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 May 2008 01:36 PM PST

French regulator Conseil Superieur de l’Audiovisuel has awarded mobile broadcast TV licenses, but it seems to have issued the licenses on a channel basis rather than issue a license for…

Mobile Content Bits: Brew Gets Flash; Juicecaster Adds Location; Nokia Goes Live; Guitar Hero Rocks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 28 May 2008 10:16 AM PST

-- Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) announced today at the Brew conference in San Diego that they have upgraded the Brew mobile platform to support Adobe Flash…

Chinese Mobile Content Retailer DUO GUO Providing Alternative To Bootleggers And Carrier Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 28 May 2008 04:20 AM PST

Would you stand in line to get content loaded onto your mobile phone? Apparently, in China’s smaller cities where mobile phones outnumber wired internet connections, there’s a flourishing black market…

Mobile Content Bits: Avot Media; JumpTap’s European Expansion; LiveWire Mobile Gets SPV Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 04:54 PM PST

-- Avot Media launching video service: Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Avot Media said it is launching a mobile video service in about 100 Home Depot stores that will help sell a product…

Reliance In 45-Day Exclusive Talks With MTN; Not Merger, Not Acquisition? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 27 May 2008 03:22 PM PST

After negotiations with Bharti-Airtel broke down, it appears that South African MTN is now in talks with Indian Reliance Communications. RCom has informed (pdf) the BSE that the ADA Group…

Napster Launches Music Video Service In Japan - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 27 May 2008 01:31 PM PST

Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) Japan has added music videos to its unlimited over-the-air subscription service, Napster To Go. The new service is dubbed Napster Clips, and is only available on the…

Chinese Ringtone Seller A8.com Files For IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 10:13 AM PST

A8.com, which mainly sells ringtones and other digital music to mobile phone subscribers in China, has filed for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong exchange to raise about…

Vodafone Germany Head Questions Pay Mobile TV Model; Cites DVB-T - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 08:04 AM PST

More evidence that DVB-T, the technology that allows handsets to receive regular terrestrial TV signals, may have European operators rethinking their mobile TV business models. According to Forbes, picking up…

Updated: iPhone Travels To Baltic and Nordic With TeliaSonera - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 07:59 AM PST

Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) journey across the world with its sole handset continues: it has tied up with TeliaSonera to bring the iPhone to the Nordic and Baltic markets, specially Sweden,…

LG, Samsung Fret Over Rumors Of Nokia Price Cuts - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 07:15 AM PST

Rumors that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will slash the cost of its cell phones by up to 20 percent to grab market share from the languishing Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and re-enter…

SK Telecom Pouring $1 Billion Into Chinese Digital Content And Design Center - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 05:03 AM PST

Following on the news that China is restructuring its telecoms industry and expects to issue 3G licenses after its completion, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said it would invest $1 billion…

China Overhauls Telecoms Industry; Aims To Increase Competition - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 03:13 AM PST

China is restructuring its telecoms industry--a long-expected move that could bring increased competition to the market. The overhaul will see six of the country’s main state-owned telecoms companies reduced to…

Arun Sarin To Step Down As Vodafone CEO; Colao To Be Replacement: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 07:59 PM PST

Arun Sarin, who defined Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as the big global telecom conglomerate in his five years as CEO, is going to step down in July and will be replaced…

UK Bluetooth Marketing Firm Breeze Tech Gets $1.6 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 02:32 PM PST

Breeze Tech, the incongruously-named Bluetooth marketing firm based in London, UK, has received about $1.6 million (£807,000) in funding commitments from private equity firm Beringea. Breeze was founded in 2003,…

EA’s Acquisition Of Hands-On Korea: $29 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 09:52 AM PST

Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At that time, no financial details were released, but…

Is Qualcomm’s UK Spectrum Too Big For Mobile TV? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 23 May 2008 02:49 PM PST

ZDNet UK journo Rupert Goodwins reckons that there are far better things for Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) to do with the 40 Mhz in the L-band it just bought for 8.3…

Videocon Emerges As Buyer For Motorola’s Handset Division Emerges; In Early Talks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 23 May 2008 08:21 AM PST

Videocon said today it was in early talks to buy Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) handset division, according to the Business Standard. Videocon, a consumer electronics company, said it made a bid…

Bloomberg Launches Mobile Application With SingTel - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 22 May 2008 03:57 PM PST

Bloomberg has launched its new mobile service with SingTel, an application which lets users “create a personalized portfolio to track the performance of their shares and stock exchange indices from…

Earnings: China’s Linktone Revs Jump 44 Percent In Q1 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 03:41 PM PST

Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), a Beijing-based company that provides wireless interactive entertainment services to consumers and advertising services to enterprises in China, announced its first-quarter financial results today, saying that revenues…

Mobile Content Bits: Sony Ericsson And Usher; m.friendster.com; Sprint’s Instinct; ShoZu’s NowPublic - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 12:41 PM PST

-- Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that it will be partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist Usher and AT&T (NYSE: T) to market Sony Ericsson’s Walkman music phones…