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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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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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