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Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 07 Aug 2008 06:56 AM PST
Teletext Holidays, probably the main reason anyone still uses the ageing TV text brand, is going full-steam into developing its mobile offering, and plans to offer holidays for sale wirelessly.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 06:56 AM PST
On the heels of Vodafone’s new music store yesterday, O2 is itself doing a new music play of its own, and with SonyBMG the only label on board. It’s added…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:39 AM PST
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will begin offering 50Mbps broadband in the second half of the year and mobile broadband dongles in Q4. Virgin is late to the UK’s booming broadband…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 04 Aug 2008 02:37 PM PST
Carriers that caught the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) bug early and secured exclusive distribution rights for the iPhone are clamoring to maintain that position over competitors, but the pool of players…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 03:50 AM PST
-- E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to replicate the page-turning paradigm of a print newspaper…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:13 AM PST
That price cut in the run-up to the iPhone 3G’s release seemed to do the trick for O2 - between January and June it added 137,596 pay-monthly customers; that’s 80.8…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Jul 2008 03:43 AM PST
T-Mobile is planning to launch a video-on-demand service for films and TV shows that can be watched on either a mobile or PC. NMA.co.uk reports that the operator is in…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 25 Jul 2008 04:57 AM PST
The BBC Trust is inviting opinions on the BBC’s proposal to resume broadcasting to 3G mobile handsets, following the completion of a 12-month trial in April. The BBC had simulcast…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Jul 2008 02:44 PM PST
Three parent Hutchison Whampoa is calling for roaming data charges to be lowered across Europe. It said it had reached a million mobile broadband subscribers across the continent but is…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 24 Jul 2008 11:58 AM PST
Mobile news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: UK publisher Trinity Mirror is developing mobile sites for 2 national newspapers and 12 regional ones, teaming…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Jul 2008 01:46 AM PST
Stockholm-based Icomera, which fits WiFi internet access on trains, is buying UK mobile networks company Moovera, which also does WiFi for public transport, for an undisclosed amount in a deal…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 17 Jul 2008 09:50 PM PST
Two new government initiatives to crack down on rogue mobile phone services: Just days after the EU said it would force operators to lower SMS roaming charges, its consumer chief…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 17 Jul 2008 12:44 PM PST
Record high inflation is apparently taking its toll on the purchasing power of French citizens, so what better way for the government to tackle the problem than to target the…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jul 2008 01:49 AM PST
And you thought it was mostly Americans addicted to the SMS/IM/web presence thingamy… ? Web measurer Hitwise says it’s the reverse - at least, proportionally. “Last week the site’s share…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:54 AM PST
UK mobile games maker Player X is buying Madrid-based mobile games publisher Gaelco Móviles for an undisclosed cash amount - its first acquisition and part of a European expansion plan.…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jul 2008 05:43 AM PST
Here it is: After months of threats and warnings, the European Commission announced today that it will end “roaming rip-offs” for text messages abroad after calls to the industry to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 14 Jul 2008 03:52 PM PST
The European Commission is expected to announce tomorrow that it will propose legislation to cut the cost of sending and receiving text messages while roaming, according to the IHT. On…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jul 2008 12:01 AM PST
-- Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will merge it with its own Musical Instruments Professional…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PST
If my local O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores were anything to go by, there was no-one queuing and zero buzz for the long-awaited iPhone 3G. But that was 10pm last…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 10 Jul 2008 09:55 AM PST
After facing strict regulatory approval, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it has officially closed the $8.1 billion acquisition of digital map company Navteq, which was before its expected Aug. 8…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 01:37 AM PST
Mippin, a London-based service that repackages web content for mobile handsets, has appointed Judy Gibbons, the Accel VC partner who funded the company, as its CEO. Formed in October out…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:53 AM PST
Another upstart mobile social media platform, Next2Friends, will announce a “multimillion-dollar” first funding round in the next four to six weeks. Term sheets are being signed for the company to…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:07 AM PST
-- iPhone Demand In UK Overwhelms O2 Site: It’s four days before Apple’s iPhone goes on sale in the UK, and it looks like mobile operator O2, may not be…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Jul 2008 03:55 AM PST
Mobile news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- Orange Launches Ad-Funded Mag: Orange has rolled out an ad-funded video magazine service on its portal Orange World. The clips—which includes celeb…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 02 Jul 2008 06:52 AM PST
It’s best days may be behind it in online search, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is proving it’s still a contender in mobile. The search engine and portal struck an ad…
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