Leeds City Council 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 sends…

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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…

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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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U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…

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-- BT Returns To Mobile Market With Home And Mobile Broadband Product: BT (NYSE: BT) Total Broadband Anywhere, which gives customers broadband at home and on their mobile, as well…

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-- Player X/Paramount: Mobile media producer Player X has been enlisted by Paramount Mobile Entertainment to produce games and short video series based on its formts, C21 reports, calling the…

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Snapped by Robert right in the middle of London’s Canary Wharf, and mostly ignored by busy financial workers today, was what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) dubbed “the world’s smallest cinema”…

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Celeb magazine Hello!’s website is to start beaming daily star gossip to mobiles via SMS and MMS. The text message will include a wrap of headlines from the accompanying website…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the mobile web and email into its…

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Ad-funded free MVNO Blyk reports that it has 100,000 clients in Britain after being operational for six months—that’s half a year ahead of schedule. Blyk said the ad campaigns “had…

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London-based mobile games developer, publisher and distributor Telcogames has gone in to administration, we can reveal after confirming with CEO Jamie Conyngham. The company was placed in to the administration…

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Startup blinkBox is adding full-length TV shows to its film/TV clip messaging offering as it comes out of beta phase today. Founded by former 4 Services MD Michael Comish and…

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Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social networking company, Danish Bluetooth-based mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. Zyb itself…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG is the second record label to join Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music pre-bundled music initiative. At a London joint press conference, the pair said Nokia…

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London, UK-based mobile start-up GoSpoken has launched a mobile service that allows users to browse, buy and download audio books. The service is compatible with 3G phones, but the company…

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-- Voda, Orange, BSkyB Eye Tiscali Acquisition - Reports: FT.com has added Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to the unsubstantiated list of companies interested in buying on-the-block Italian broadband/telco/IPTV group Tiscali, which…

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Mobile VoIP service Truphone has raised a big £16.5 million in second-round funding from its existing backers, led by private investors. Independent News & Media and German publisher Burda’s digital…

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-- CricInfo Widget for iPhone: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) subsidiary cricket site CricInfo has launched a mobile widget for the iPhone. Cricinfo Mobicast, created by widget tech firm Plusmo, provides iPhone…

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Latest mobile headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net. Click for more detail… -- 3UK To Downplay Emphasis On Content: Analyst Ovum emergees from an interview with 3UK CEO Kevin Russell…

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Mobile video broadcast service Qik has raised a $3 million second round and is adding interoperability with upstart UK-based web TV platform WorldTV. At MipTV in Cannes on Thursday, we…

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UK operator O2 has admitted limiting the speed of most of its customers’ 3G connections to 128 kbps, instead of the 384 kbps the technology is capable of, reports The…

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British telecoms group BT (NYSE: BT) is considering investing in WiMax, according to Ian Livingston, the company’s CEO designate, a move that could help it overcome its strategic soft spot,…

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Mobile content and apps creator MobiVentures is acquiring UK-based e-mail marketer PurePromoter for $7.8 million (£3.9 million). MobiVentures has secured $2 million (£1.01 million) in financing from Trafalgar Capital Specialized…

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UK telco regulator Ofcom will this summer embark on its biggest ever sale of radio spectrum when it auctions both the 2010-2025MHz block and the 2500-2690MHz block (commonly called 2.6GHz),…

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The European Commission just confirmed earlier reports it will begin an in-depth inquiry in to Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS mapping provider Navteq. It was always…

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