-- Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) said it’s offering a service for $10 a month called RemoSync, which syncs Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange Server features, such as email, calendar and contacts, to feature phones, so businesses don’t have to buy their employees expensive smartphones. The service is available on select Get It Now-capable phones, and was developed by Remoba. Release.

-- Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia announced a deal today with Rhythm NewMedia to distribute “Minyanville’s World in Review” video content to mobile phones. Minyanville produces short original, animated videos that are subsidized by pre- or post-roll video ads provided by Rhythm. Content will include weekly episodes of Hoofy & Boo’s, which features a Bull and a Bear that take a humorous look at the world of business and finance.

-- Several rumors are surfacing that Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and HTC may be considering a merger. Cellular-News reports that the reports range from a short article in a Swedish newspaper, Elektronik Tidningen, to various reports of meetings with HTC being canceled at short notice without explanation. In an email, a spokesman responded to us about the rumors: “We don’t comment on rumor or speculation which clearly this is.”