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English City Leeds Tries Metro-Wide Mobile Info Blasts - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 16 May 2008 05:17 AM PST

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…

Orange To Sell iPhone In Europe, Middle East and Africa - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 16 May 2008 03:54 AM PST

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…

Mobile DRM Vendor BeepScience Bought By Safenet - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 May 2008 02:18 AM PST

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…

Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 10:18 AM PST

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…

Mobile Content Bits: Mobile News; SendMe; Anti-SMS Spam - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 May 2008 04:04 PM PST

-- 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,…

Earnings: Telefonica Profits Rise 22 Percent Boosted By Latin American Units - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 May 2008 06:21 AM PST

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…

LG Launches DVB-T Handset - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

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…

Mobile Content Bits: Big Fish And Glu; SendMe And IAC; Sega And Greystripe; Momail Email In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 01:00 AM PST

-- *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…

Quarter Of UK Social Net Users Go Mobile: Research - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 May 2008 02:35 AM PST

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…

Mobile Content Bits: Indiana Jones; Yahoo Go 3.0; Australia 3G - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 May 2008 05:42 PM PST

-- 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…

BBC Admits To Premium Rate Phone-In Problems; Pays $246,000 To Charity - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 09 May 2008 11:59 AM PST

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,…

ITV Fined $11.14 Million For Phone-In Scandal - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 May 2008 05:17 PM PST

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…

Best Buy Pays $2.1 Billion For Half Of Britain’s Carphone Warehouse - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 12:22 PM PST

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…

EC Launches Consultation, Mulls Data Roaming And SMS Price Caps - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 08 May 2008 04:51 AM PST

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…

Earnings: Deutsche Telekom First Quarter Stable; T-Mobile Hit By Currency Declines - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 08 May 2008 02:52 AM PST

German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) reported stable first-quarter results with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 4.7 billion euros ($7.28 billion), virtually unchanged from the…

BT Returns To Mobile Market With Home And Mobile Broadband Product - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 07 May 2008 04:23 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) is back with another attempt in the mobile market. The UK’s largest fixed line operator and former incumbent launched a new mobile package today, BT Total Broadband…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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)…