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Billing firm Amdocs has signed an agreement to acquire Changing Worlds , which offers everything from personalized portals to mobile advertising and search. Under the deal, Amdocs will acquire all of the private company's shares for $60 million in cash. Additional payments may be made later based...
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-- O2 relaunches portal: UK operator O2 has relaunched a reworked version of its Active mobile internet portal for its latest handsets so that the site more closely replicates a PC experience, reports NMA.co.uk . The portal also makes it easier for subscribers to reach mobile internet sites. The new...
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A slew of deals for internet-based software testing service DeviceAnywhere, benefiting from the booming interest in mobile applications from operators and device makers as they try to lure consumers. The WSJ.com reports on DeviceAnywhere's partnership with RIM ( NSDQ: RIMM ) to let third party developers...
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Germany will launch a second round of 3G auctions next year, that will allow both new entrants and incumbents to participate, which could put more financial pressure on existing license holders, reports Reuters citing the Financial Times Deutschland. The second round of 3G auctions will give operators...
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It's been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that might actually compete with newspapers and television, The Guardian reports . Carriers are beginning to recognize that they aren't...
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O2 UK, which in November gave Near-Field Communication-equipped (NFC) handsets to 500 people so that they can trial contactless payments, reports nine in 10 of the users enjoyed the experience. The carrier issued Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) 6131 handsets to users of London's Underground, which is already...
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-- O2 Details Pay-As-You-Go iPhone 3G Price And Release Date: O2 plans to begin selling the iPhone 3G without contract on a post-paid subscriber basis on Sept. 16, Stuff.tv reports . The 8GB version will sell for $623 and the 8GB version will go for $713 – both of which include free Wi-Fi and unlimited...
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We have added more top speakers to the lineup for our EconMusic conference, which will explore the emerging economics of the digital music business at London's Natural History Museum on September 23 . New speakers are:- -- Tom Erskine , head of go-to-market, Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Music -- Tom McLennan...
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On the heels of Vodafone's new music store yesterday , O2 is itself doing a new music play of its own, and with SonyBMG the only label on board. It's added My Play to its O2 Active portal - a service powered by Momac's GoMedia that offers videos, full-track downloads and realtones in a store...
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Carriers that caught the Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) bug early and secured exclusive distribution rights for the iPhone are clamoring to maintain that position over competitors, but the pool of players is getting deeper. Britain's O2 is now facing threats from competitors who might try to take advantage...
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That price cut in the run-up to the iPhone 3G's release seemed to do the trick for O2 - between January and June it added 137,596 pay-monthly customers; that's 80.8 percent more additions than the same period last year (. O2 said the growth was driven by iPhone and strong traditional handset...
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This is not good. On Thursday, anti-spam company mailchannels, warned on its blog that the UK carrier O2 was leaking the images of its customers' multimedia text messages on the web, thanks to its shockingly lax system for dealing with MMS sent to phones without the ability to open them. O2 would...