Struggling T-Mobile UK Working On Turnaround Plan
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T-Mobile is one step closer to unveiling a turnaround plan, after the company reported today that it lost 87,000 subscribers in the UK durin… Read more »
Amazon And eBay’s Potential Role Going Forward In Wireless
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A study recently found that a quarter of mobile phones sold in Western Europe had been purchased online, mostly from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and… Read more »
Earnings: T-Mobile UK Health Hits Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) must now be looking to offload T-Mobile UK ASAP. The German group swung to a January-to-June loss of Read more »
The iPhone Wrap: Apple Claims 32 Percent Of Profits; Dictionary Censored And Ustream Video Uploads
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Analysts are estimating that Apple Read more »
Why It’s Hard To Say Which Mobile Ad Network Is The Largest
Advertisers want to know how many people they can reach before they commit to a multi-million campaign. But in the mobile industry, determin… Read more »
We All Knew Ringtone Sales Were Falling, But Drop Is Getting Bigger
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U.S. ringtone sales dropped so much last year it caused the entire mobile music category to record its first ever decline.
Considering tha… Read more »
Still Unclear Whether Apple Will Reboot iPhone UK Exclusive
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What’s really happening regarding O2′s UK iPhone exclusive? To be honest, we don’t know (if you do, drop us a line). But, after weeks of uns… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Spotify For 3?; Samsung’s Welsh OS; Indie’s iPhone App
– Spotify on 3?: Freemium music streaming site Spotify is in talks with UK mobile operator 3 to pre-load its software onto handsets, accord… Read more »
Video Interview: Mobypicture’s Mathys van Abbe On Expansion And Freemium
Mathys van Abbe, CEO of Dutch mobile media social sharing platform Mobypicture, tells Intruders.tv of plans to get UK business and whether t… Read more »
What If You Didn’t Have To Pay To Receive Text Messages?
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A new text-messaging service launched today could make advertising over text messages a whole lot easier.
mBlox has launched a new service… Read more »
It’s Media Day At SpinVox
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We weren’t invited to SpinVox’s technology demo on Tuesday morning, but we didn’t take offence; honest. The reception sounded like an effort… Read more »
Earnings: Glu Mobile Exceeds Own Expectations; Achieves Postive Cash Flow
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Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), a struggling mobile games company, achieved positive cash flow from operations in Q2, which was one quarter sooner… Read more »
WeFi Raises Undisclosed Round Of Funding; Addresses Mobile Market
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Delaware-based WeFi, which encourages a community approach to sharing Wi-Fi hotspots, has raised an undisclosed amount in a second round fun… Read more »
Microsoft Looks To iPhone Developers For Its Own Mobile Store
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If one of the defining qualities of a mobile phone these days is the number of applications available for the platform, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSF… Read more »
Music Search Startup Melodis Raises Another $4 Million
Mobile music search firm Melodis has raised $4 million in a round of funding led by Walden Venture Capital. Notably, Melodis said that “a ma… Read more »
Palm Pre Ads Are Creepy, But Deemed Effective By Creator
The Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre TV commercials are definitely strange. While the iPhone informs users how to use apps and while BlackBerry is show… Read more »
INQ Mobile Launches Two New Phones With Twitter, Media Syncing
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The first phone that Hutchison Whampoa-owned INQ Mobile built was known for its tight integration with Facebook, and drove 65 percent of use… Read more »
The iPhone In Brief: Apple Bans 900 Apps; Flaws Fixed; Netflix Streaming And More
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Everyone is up in arms about Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) voting the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Voice app off its iPhone island, but does anyone care that ab… Read more »
SpinVox: No, Whatley Hasn’t Quit; He’s Just Rafting
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Has SpinVox’s social media strategist James Whatley quit the voice-to-text firm? Not exactly. Late Sunday night, TechCrunch Europe accidenta… Read more »
Updated: SpinVox Gets Emergency Funds
Under-fire UK voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which we revealed last week was finalising a new funding injection, has in fact secured those new… Read more »
WiMax Broadband Revenues Expected To Hit $15 Billion In ’14
Despite all the delays, mobile WiMax service revenues for network operators could hit $15 billion by 2014 as the number of mobile broadband… Read more »
Cellufun Secures $1 Million In Financing
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New York-based Cellufun, which makes free games that integrate chatting and other social features, has secured about $1 million in bridge fi… Read more »
Microsoft Says Mobile Volume Up Slightly; But Acknowledges “Issues”
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer proudly rattled off a list of his company’s accomplishments over the last year at the company’s fin… Read more »
MobiTV Looking To Partner With Carriers In Europe And Asia
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MobiTV, which packages together TV content for mobile phone operators to offer streaming video services, is looking to expand beyond the U.S… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Funny Or Die; MetalHammer App; Nimbuzz Launches Android App
– Funny Or Die: Online TV service Babelgum has got an exclusive, two-year license to distribute the comedy clips series on mobile, includin… Read more »
Industry Moves: Vodafone CMO, NME Ed., LinkedIn PR, AVG Comms
– Vodafone: Wendy Becker, MD of marketing at Carphone Warehouse’s ISP TalkTalk since February 2008, has joined as chief marketing officer,… Read more »
Earnings: Telefonica Resilient; O2 Says Apple ‘Extremely Happy’ With iPhone Exclusive
Update: Pushed on on the prospect of losing iPhone exclusivity, Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Europe CEO Matthew Key told analysts in their confere… Read more »
Earnings: Orange Shedding UK Broadband Subscribers
Orange lost 10.3 percent of its UK home broadband subscribers in the year to June as competition hotted up around it. It now has 954,000 ADS… Read more »
If Microsoft Wants Yahoo’s Mobile Search, They’ll Have To Earn It
Updated: Following Microsoft’s search and advertising deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be the largest mobile searc… Read more »
Orange Offers PAYG Music Downloads, But Is It Free?
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Orange is teaming up with Channel 4 and Universal to let UK pay as you go customers listen to music via their mobiles. It’s not quite a repe… Read more »
Microsoft Will Also Power Yahoo Mobile Search, But Deal Is Not Exclusive
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Under the terms of the 10-year search and advertising partnership they announced this morning, Microsoft’s Bing search technology will be us… Read more »
Industry Moves: Buongiorno Names Reutter UK & International MD
Italian mobile entertainment outfit Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is upping former O2 Germany head of content Juergen Reutter to be its MD of UK and… Read more »
Apple Wins Right To Say Its Apps Are ‘Only On The iPhone’
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has won the right to say that its apps are available “only on the iPhone” in the UK despite complaints that other handset… Read more »
Spotify Is Already Out For iPhone (Unofficially)
While Spotify crosses its fingers Apple will approve its client for iPhone’s App Store, some folk are already using Spotify on the handset.… Read more »
Can Chinese Mobile Content Company KongZhong Keep Up Its Torrid Growth?
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MocoNews Contributor Jeremy Laws was formerly SVP of Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, where he headed up the film studio’s mobile initi… Read more »
Sprint Buying Virgin Mobile USA For $483 Million To Boost Prepaid Offer
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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has agreed to buy Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) for $5.50 per share or $483 million, combining it with its own Boost… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: New BlackBerry; NPR Mobile; Opera Page Views; NFL On Pre; Qualcomm Widgets
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– T-Mobile USA gets new Curve: Research In Motion said today the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available via T-Mobile USA on August 5.… Read more »
Booyah Will Capitalize On Giving iPhone Users Sense Of Achievement
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Booyah, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company started by veteran game-makers and funded by none other than Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ i… Read more »
Microsoft Asks Developers To Build A Windows Mobile App For Chance At Surface Table
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is now accepting applications for the upcoming Windows Marketplace today as expected. To get people excited, Microsof… Read more »
SpinVox Says It Is Close To Finalising New Funding
SpinVox it is close to securing a new round of funding, after burning through the $100 million it raised in March 2008. The CEO of the voice… Read more »
