Carphone Warehouse profits rose 81 percent to £124 million in the year to March 29, on 12 percent better revenues of £4.47 billion. But the group has a “cautious” outlook…

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MediaFLO said it launched a special TV station today called EURO to broadcast live video coverage of the 2008 UEFA European Soccer Championship until June 29. The channel will feature…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT), feeling ignored among all the iPhone-mania, has announced a deal of its own: in UK, it has done a deal with Paramount Pictures to offer full-length film…

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O2 and Carphone Warehouse have confirmed they will offer both versions of Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) new 3G iPhone, announced Monday evening. Suggesting Apple has allowed O2 a degree of subsidisation,…

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A panel I chaired at the World Editors Forum at Gothenburg, Sweden, heard how Reuters reporters are using “MoJo” toolkits to gather news, how Telegraph.co.uk is planning to start a…

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Before King Carl and the amazing Swedish National Opera kicked off the 61st World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg this morning, I caught up with Oscar Westlund, a PhD…

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Breeze Tech, the incongruously-named Bluetooth marketing firm based in London, UK, has received £800,000 in funding commitments from private equity firm Beringea. Breeze was founded in 2003, and provides Bluetooth-based…

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Now that’s what I call a long tail. Roy Of The Rovers, the boy’s comic strip about a wholesome footballer that started in 1954, is being added to the line-up…

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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” (not…

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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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