VFUK has announced plans to roll out another 50 stores over the forthcoming financial year – which will take it’s total to 400. The stores are being designed so customers can experience services before purchasing, and the extra staff required to show those off and operate the shops will mean 200 more jobs – definitely…
Vodafone Germany offers Bundesliga via 3G streaming
Vodafone Germany is to broadcast all 612 first and second division Bundesliga matches in the 2008/09 season live to customers will 3G Mobile phones, via streaming. The offer is via something called “Vodafone Live! Football Flatrate”, and will cost 7.50 EUR per month, of which the first month is a free trial. Users will even…
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…
RIM’s staggered Bold launch vs. Apple’s “all at once” approach
BlackberryNews.com has recently commented on the Blackberry Bold release dates – and the keyword we are looking at here is staggered… to recap, here are the supposed dates: July 29 – Rogers business customers August 1 – Vodafone UK August 4 – T-Mobile Germany August 8 – Rogers for general availability September 1 or later…
HTC Touch Pro coming to Vodafone UK in August
HTC is really hitting their UK market hard these days. With the HTC Touch Diamond already expected in the UK, lucky Brits will have to decide which handset they’d like to play with – a sleek and trim, VGA boasting, HSDPA handset with and without a QWERTY keyboard. The United Kingdom is set to receive…
MGM goes live on Vodafone in Germany
MGM has just announced it’s first big agreement with Vodafone Germany. The MGM Channel, which is currently a German-language channel on Pay TV in Europe, is now going to be available through Vodafone. The MGM Channel is available on the 3G Vodafone Live! network in Germany, offering movies from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film library – including…
BlackBerry Bold 9000 gets launch dates
So, it’s the 25th day of July, and we’ve still not heard a peep regarding the Blackberry Bold 9000’s release. Previous reports indicating that July 25 was the date to look forward to for an official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold’s launch were obviously off the mark. Where does that leave BlackBerry fanatics chompin’ at…
Sony BMG appoints ex-VF Content Director
Sony BMG has appointed Graeme Ferguson as SVP of digital of strategic partnerships – as some of you may know Ferguson is the former Vodafone content director, who was responsible for the launch of Vodafone Live! Whilst perhaps not the biggest announcement we’ve reported on this year, it could mark significant aspirations in Sony BMG’s…
Fond Memories: Sharp GX10i
I just received my regular email from Expansys, telling me about their latest offers – one of the items sparked some fond memories…. the Sharp GX10 was one of the first three handsets to launch Vodafone Live back in the day (circa 2002), with what was for then quite advanced features – camera, MMS, colour…
Vodafone launches Vodafone NetPC
VF Portugal has launched a new mobility proposition called NetPC, which consists of a “Vodafone Connect” Pen, and an Ultra-compact Laptop (is that a UCLP?!). The hardware consists of a EeePC701 Laptop, and USB Modem, allowing surfing up to 7.2Mbps. The version that VF is pushing is the GUI-Linux EeePC that we’ve reported on…