Following on from Will’s post, my fave UK mobile bits retailer Expansys has emailed me to tell me the Touch Pro is for sale, at the bargain price of £519.99! If that sounds a bit too much, they kindly point out that you can get it in contract, for a much-subsidised rate: You can also…
Convergence vs Divergence: Sat Nav
In this great world of Mobile Devices that are more than just phones, just about everyone is hell-bent on Convergence – slam as many features as you can in to a device, and that will make it great. We’ve only got to consider devices carring so-say High Megapixel cameras, Sat Nav, WiFi, and other “smart”phone…
Amobee pulls in investment from Moto and Cisco
Amobee Media Systems has announced that both Motorola and Cisco systems have made strategic investments in the company. They join existing investors such as Telefonica, Vodafone, and some financial institutions. This investment comes on the back of news of successful alliances with Telefonica, and go-live deployments with Vodafone. The Amobee media system establishes a new…
UK: MVNO Lebara links up with Morrisons Supermarkets
Lebara Mobile (which is apparently a UK MVNO that provides lo-cost calls to the UK’s ethnice residents) has announced it has signed up to a partnership with Morrisons, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains. This means that airtime from the MVNO will be sold through the supermarkets and petrol forecourts of Morissons locations. I…
More bad news for Mobile TV in Korea
Some new numbers on Mobile TV’s take-up (or not!) in Korea haev emerged – and by Mobile TV in this instance, I am referring to the broadcast variety using the DMB standard. DMB can include both Terrestrial (T-DMB) and Satellite (S-DMB), but these stats lump those together – and the numbers still aint good! Apparently…
Mobile TV in downward spiral in Germany and Japan
Whilst the lady in the picture seems quite happy with her Mobile TV, it would appear that people in both Germany and Japan will be less so…. Mobile 3.0 (the company that won the DVB-H auction in Germany) hasn’t been able to generate any traction in the market (and is probably headed for insolvency), since…
Vodafone UK launches Vodafone Music
Two music services launches in one week…. this is crazy! Vodafone has just launched it’s second, yes second, music download store for the UK market. As you most likely know if you are a Voda customer, Omnifone’s streaming MusicStation service has been running for some time – but now Vodafone has added “Vodafone Music”. The…
O2 and Sony BMG launch UK mobile music service
O2UK and Sony BMG have launched a new music store which apparently is the first to be supported by both a label and an operator (I am not sure if this makes it better or not, but it’s a different twist on the music play…). The service will be known as “MyPlay”, and can only…
Siemens exits Telecoms altogether
Siemens is apparently selling off it’s home cordless phone business unit, in a deal that will signal the completion of exit for the company out of the telecommunications industry. Siemen’s exit from the industry has taken 3 years, with the company’s CEO refocusing on segments such as energy and healthcare, in which it is a…
NTT DoCoMo profits up 41%!
Well it’s not all bad news in the financial stakes for companies in the Mobile Industry. Following Sharp’s bad news, and O2’s mixed news, comes pretty good news for NTT DoCoMo – their profits are up 41.3% in the quarter just ended! DoCoMo is attributing this rise to both strong sales of handsets, and an…