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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Sony Ericsson And Usher; m.friendster.com; Sprint’s Instinct; ShoZu’s NowPublic - 1 Comment
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…

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Updated: Jamba COO Lee Fenton Leaves, Replaced By Kaj Hagros - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 22 May 2008 08:06 AM PST

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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KIT Digital Acquires Kamera For Up To $10.2 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 May 2008 03:00 PM PST

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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Unlimited Data Plans Drive More Mobile Web Usage In The U.S. Over Britain: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 21 May 2008 09:25 AM PST

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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Shopping Malls Are Tracking The Habits Of Visitors Using Location-Based Services - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 20 May 2008 05:48 PM PST

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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T-Mobile Expects To Remain Exclusive Carrier Of iPhone In Germany - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 20 May 2008 04:56 AM PST

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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Mobivention Acquires Download Content Business of Airmotion - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 19 May 2008 02:26 PM PST

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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Swisscom Launches Mobile TV Service In Switzerland - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 May 2008 08:41 AM PST

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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Industry Moves: Jamster Takes Content EVP Linders From Endemol - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 19 May 2008 04:41 AM PST

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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Orange Unveils LiveRadio For WiFi Net Radio In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 19 May 2008 01:01 AM PST

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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Indian Mobile Content Firm OnMobile Acquires France’s Telisma S.A. - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 18 May 2008 09:30 AM PST

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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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