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BSkyB ( NYSE: BSY ) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange , T-Mobile , Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ) unit is bringing...
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In a bid to increase the amount of data its customers consume, Three UK launched its so-called "Facebook Phone" today--the INQ1--which Britain's smallest carrier and its handset partner INQ Mobile are calling the world's first social mobile phone. While the handset does indeed give...
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Hutchison Whampoa is rolling out a 3G Facebook phone in the UK and Australia next week, just in time for the holiday season. The handset, which will have the social net integrated into it as well as instant messaging, email, and Skype, is being built by Hutchison's new mobile device subsidiary INQ...
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Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) confirmed in its earnings call last week that British carrier 3 UK would be offering its all-you-can eat music service on its N95 8GB handsets. Now dates and prices have been firmed up: the CWM enabled N95's will be available starting November 3 for £35 ($57) a month on an 18...
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UK operator 3 UK has got its ad-supported mobile video service back on track, and has appointed 4th Screen and Mobix Interactive to run the service. The two companies replace ad-funded mobile video provider Rhythm New Media, which abandoned the UK market in August to concentrate on the US. Mobile ad...
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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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Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. is taking the wraps off its new handset subsidiary, INQ Mobile, this week and hopes to pick up where others have left much to desire. Coming from a carriers' point of view, the company doesn't hide the fact it wants as many customers as possible to access content on their...
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Sixteen global IT and telecoms giants, including Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ), Telefónica, Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ), and Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ), have come together to create a new gadget category—the always-connected mobile broadband device, which they're backing with a $1 billion marketing campaign....
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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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3 UK wants to pick up the iPhone if O2's exclusive UK deal with Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) comes to an end, says CEO Kevin Russell (via Guardian.co.uk ). With Apple now having abandoned carrier exclusivity in some territories like Russia and Czech Republic to meet its sales target, who'd bet against...
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GetJar , which distributes free mobile applications to consumers on the Internet and over the phone, said it is branching out its business by building application storefronts for wireless carriers. A few months ago, that would have been unheard of because carriers typically want to own the relationship...
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MediaFLO USA beefed up its news programming slate over the weekend with the addition of three new permanent 24/7 cable news channels: CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News. NBC Universal's NBC News2Go channel, which pulled content from the network's various news properties, has been replaced by the two NBC...