Update: Jamster COO Lee Fenton will be succeeded by Kaj Hagros, an Airwide Solutions VP, at the start of July. Jamster via emailed release) said Englishman Fenton “has decided to…

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-- 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…

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KIT Digital (formerly Roo Group) has bought Swedish mobile video firm Kamera for $4.2 million in cash and up to $6 million in KIT stock, depending on certain performance thresholds,…

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U.S. smartphone users spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes a month browsing the mobile Web, whereas their British counterparts spend about two and a half hours a…

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Here’s another interesting use of location-based services on the cellphone: a company in the U.K. is pinpointing devices to track a shoppers every move to determine what stores are visited,…

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In the last few weeks, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been striking iPhone deals with carriers around the world, with the handsets to be sold on a non-exclusive basis in several…

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German mobile content vendor Mobivention has bought Download Content business of German-based Airmotion—the companies aren’t releasing the financial details but Mobivention claims it will contribute to a “significant 6-digit increase…

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The spate of mobile TV service launches continue, even as the user and business case for any of them are still unproven: Swisscom has launched its mobile TV service, Bluewin…

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News Corp/VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) mobile entertainment JV Jamster/Jamba has hired Endemol International’s digital media director William Linders as its content EVP, based at the Berlin HQ. Linders had spent seven…

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After home broadband and TV, add another service to Orange’s growing arsenal - radio. The telco is unveiling LiveRadio, a WiFi-enabled radio device that comes with access to more than…

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OnMobile Global, one of the biggest mobile content and technology companies in India, has acquired France-based speech recognition software provider Telisma S.A. As per the earnings call we had covered…

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Leeds City Council, UK, is trying its hand at a variation on the location-based mobile services (LBS) theme. LeedsCast sees nine mobile-detecting “pods” dotted around the city, each of which…

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France Telecom’s Orange has reached an agreement with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to take the iPhone to Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and its…

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Norway-based mobile and online content DRM vendor BeepScience has been quietly bought by US security technology company SafeNet, reports DRM Watch. The deal terms were not disclosed. Beep Science’s client…

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Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

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-- Knight Foundation awards digital community news projects: The Knight Foundation is awarding $5.5 million to 16 different projects which won a content for transforming community news through digital technology,…

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Spanish telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported a first quarter 22 percent rise in profits, boosted by its Latin American mobile phone units. Net income rose to 1.54 billion euros…

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LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

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-- *Glu* unveils “Mystery Case” game: Today, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is unveiling “Mystery Case Files: Agent X,” a game designed and developed by Big Fish Games for mobile phones…

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Just 1.7 percent of all UK mobile subscribers (812,000) used a mobile social network in Q108, according to new Nielsen research. Even so, the research firm said the space “could…

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-- O2 and Samsung are teaming up to sell exclusive content for the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. Wallpapers, true tones, voice tones and…

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The UK’s premium rate phone-in scandal rumbles on. The BBC admitted today that £106,000 ($212,000) raised for charity through a premium rate fundraising phone-in was in fact kept by Audiocall,…

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A week ago there was the rumor that British broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) could be fined a record $7.8 million (4 million pounds) for its part in the premium phone…

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U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…

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The European Commission launched a public consultation on Wednesday asking for feedback on its roaming regulations, adopted in June of last year. Reuters reports, that among other issues, the EC…

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