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Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 07:26 AM PST
The 3G edition may have accelerated iPhone sales worldwide, but the picture in eastern Europe is less rosy. Dow Jones reports that T-Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in the Czech…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Jul 2008 04:59 AM PST
Another music label staffing up digitally at the top, this time with a mobile track record. SonyBMG UK is hiring mobile media software maker Picsel‘s global content MD Graeme Ferguson…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 23 Jun 2008 08:50 PM PST
UPDATED: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants it all. The Finnish handset maker said today that it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian, that it…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 01:59 AM PST
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) - thought to have been the likeliest candidate to buy on-the-block ISP Tiscali - has pulled out of the running for the whole of the company, leaving…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 10:29 PM PST
Arun Sarin, who defined Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as the big global telecom conglomerate in his five years as CEO, is going to step down in July and will be replaced…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 16 May 2008 03:32 AM PST
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) announced today that it is acquiring 100 percent of the privately-owned Danish mobile social network ZYB for 31.5 million euros (£25 million) in cash. The network operator…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 04:50 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse is out of the running to acquire Italian broadband provider Tiscali, reports FT.com. Tiscali rejected the British mobile phone retailer and broadband provider from its shortlist after the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 03:00 PM PST
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…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 08:55 AM PST
-- 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…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 18 Mar 2008 02:44 AM PST
Mobile news from sister site mocoNews.net: — Vodafone Strikes Exclusive Madonna Deal: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with record label Warner Music to give the operator’s customers exclusive…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:37 AM PST
- Games prediction: Ad-funded mobile games will be worth £600,000 this year and £41 million by 2012 in the UK, research for the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) says. The forum…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 14 Feb 2008 06:08 AM PST
Rafat wrote last night Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) mobile SVP Pieter Knook is leaving the company after 17 years. At MWC in Barcelona this morning, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) just announced Knook…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:46 AM PST
Day two of the MWC. Here’s what’s happening in UK-related news from our sister site mocoNews.net: @ MWC: Orange, Nokia Sign Services Agreement; Doesn’t Include Ovi: Orange and Nokia (NYSE:…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:54 AM PST
The UK’s five largest operators--Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Feb 2008 09:13 PM PST
Building off the success of its online developer platform, Facebook launched a mobile platform for wireless carriers today, according to IDG. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is already using it in Germany…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 01 Feb 2008 04:07 AM PST
UK mobile content headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- BBC Deciding On Mobile TV Strategy: The BBC is currently mulling over the results of a 12-month long mobile TV…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jan 2008 07:27 AM PST
- ITV Launching Made For Mobile TV Series “The Gym”: ITV (LSE: ITV) premieres its second made-for-mobile (and internet) TV show on Monday. The “mobicom” The Gym, is a comedy…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 06 Dec 2007 07:20 AM PST
--The Sun: The newspaper has rolled out a quick response (QR) mobile barcode service that it hopes will enrich print ads by giving readers a way to quickly access mobile…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Dec 2007 07:13 AM PST
Latest European headlines from our sister site mocoNews… - Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Offer: The Details: Songs consumers get under the handset maker’s deal announced with Universal yesterday will be…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 Nov 2007 06:46 AM PST
SF-based mobile advertising firm Amobee has taken strategic minority investments from operators Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Telefonica. These investments come after an initial VC round of $5 million from Accel…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:07 AM PST
T-Mobile has announced it will now start selling iPhones with out a contract, for 999 euros (£713), as opposed to 399 euros (£285) with a two-year contract. Any customer can…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 20 Nov 2007 05:49 PM PST
Vodafone Germany has succeeded in getting a restraining order against T-Mobile prohibiting the carrier from selling the iPhone in Germany, reports Dow Jones. “Specifically, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is questioning the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 19 Nov 2007 08:02 PM PST
Wow, talk about your sore losers… Right after Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin spat the dummy over not getting the iPhone contract saying “it’s a pretty poor experience” Vodafone…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 19 Nov 2007 02:51 AM PST
File this under “a bit rich”. A couple of months after reportedly saying Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) will “absolutely” get another crack at carrying the iPhone somewhere in the world, CEO…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 Nov 2007 06:47 AM PST
From our sister site mocoNews: Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) data revenue was up 48.8 percent year-on-year to £1 billion in earnings for the six months to September 30. Group revenue grew…
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