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Vodafone To Distribute iPhone In Ten Countries; Apple Breaks With Exclusive Deal In Italy - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 06 May 2008 08:34 AM PST

After losing out to its rival O2 last year, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in ten countries, reports Reuters. Those…

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Celeb Mag Hello! Launching Premium Daily SMS/MMS Blast - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 May 2008 04:00 PM PST

Celeb magazine Hello! is to start beaming daily star gossip to mobiles via SMS and MMS. The text message will include a wrap of headlines from the accompanying website and…

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Can “Free” DVB-T Drive Mobile TV Uptake? - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 05 May 2008 03:20 AM PST

Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn’t it? In recent weeks, both Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Qualcomm have said the service isn’t getting the take up it had expected, with…

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Updated: Deutsche Telekom Looking To Buy Sprint? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 03 May 2008 07:55 AM PST

Will Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel find a buyer to get it out of its troubles? So says Der Spiegel (via Reuters), the German magazine: Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), owner of…

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PhonepayPlus Probes UK Premium Rate Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 May 2008 03:00 PM PST

UK regulator PhonepayPlus has announced a review into the 350 million pound (US$691.6 million) a year premium-rate industry, after complaints soared by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2007.…

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Vodafone UK Incorporates Internet Pricing Into Monthly Plan - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 05:46 AM PST

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the mobile web and email into its…

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Ofcom To Fine ITV Record $7.8 Million For Premium Rate Phone In Scandals? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 03:30 PM PST

ITV (LSE: ITV) could be slapped with a record fine of about £4 million pounds (US$7.88 million) following the conclusion of Ofcom’s six-month investigation into last year’s premium phone line…

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Mobile Content Bits: Whrrl Events; iPhone Goes To Canada; Madonna Live; Nokia Music - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 29 Apr 2008 09:51 AM PST

-- Pelago Adds Events to Whrrl: Pelago, which has a social networking site called Whrrl that provides restaurant information and reviews, said it is adding news about local events. Whrrl…

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8GB iPhone Goes To End Of Life In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 09:43 AM PST

O2 will stop selling the 8GB iPhone, according to an internal memo reported by Engadget. The memo reportedly reads: “Due to the highly successful sales of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

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Blyk Hits 100,000 Customers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 24 Apr 2008 08:22 AM PST

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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UK Mobile Games Outfit Telcogames In Administration; Management Buy-Out? - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 07:28 AM PST

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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Is Europe Forcing Apple To Rethink Its iPhone Strategy? - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 02:34 PM PST

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 Phonebook Firm Zyb Buys Danish Social Network Imity - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 11:17 AM PST

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 BMG Joins Nokia’s Comes With Music Program - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 04:14 AM PST

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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3G IPhone In Italy Without Exclusivity, Revenue-Sharing: Rumor - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:33 AM PST

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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Bidders In The UK Spectrum Auction Announced; MediaFlo, O2 Among Them - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 18 Apr 2008 07:40 AM PST

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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GoSpoken Launches Mobile Audiobook Service With Random House Authors - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:22 AM PST

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 Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 02:19 AM PST

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 Latest To Bring Out A Dongle - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:06 AM PST

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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Truphone Rings Up Big $32.6 Million VC For Mobile VoIP - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:24 AM PST

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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Voda, Orange, BSkyB Eye Tiscali Acquisition - Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 05:06 AM PST

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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Mobile Content Bits: 3 UK Adds Fun Text; AOL And Time.com on iPhone; Egyptian Ads; RollingStone.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 11:55 AM PST

-- 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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Def Jam Handset A Tilt At The Hardware Market - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 15 Apr 2008 07:43 AM PST

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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SFR Launches MTV 3G Phone With Special Content, Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:12 PM PST

French operator SFR will launch an MTV-branded phone next week, the MTV3.3, along with limited-time and fixed-cost plans designed to appeal to the young people most likely to want the…

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Mobile GPS: At The Next Left, Hope For Anti-Trust Clearance - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 08:17 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is keeping quiet and corporate on its chances of winning European Commission clearance for its $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS map-maker Navteq, but TomTom sources are going…

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