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Fantasy Football - Week 9 |
25/10/06 |
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| The Mobile Business Webmonkeys have been in tears the past few days after a poor week, and with some good scoring from other teams there's been a bit of a mix up at the top of the table. The Webmonkeys have been inconsolable since the weekend having dropped from 2nd spot all the way down to 8th. Although all their players score...Read More |
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| O2 reaches for the stars with its new smartphone. Running Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC and coming bundled with GPS the O2 Orbit looks to be the perfect mobile office. The O2 Orbit is an updated version of the XDA. Measuring just 108 x 58 x 16.8 mm this handset packs in quite a lot including an FM radio, WiFi, and comes bundl...Read More |
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LG's Shiny New Slider |
25/10/06 |
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| LG unveiled their new mobile LG Shine with the hopes of continuing the success of the highly popular LG Chocolate. As part of the latest Black Label series, it aims at fascinating customers both visually and technologically.The new LG Shine has an all-metal brushed stainless steel design and an innovative scroll-key navigation. ...Read More |
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New Unique Mobility Solution |
25/10/06 |
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| Not to be confused with Orange's "Unique" VoIP service, Unique Distribution have announced their support in the development and implementation of a new mobility solution with the Nokia Eseries on behalf of Westcon Group, a multi-national supplier of networking and security technologies.The launch of Westcon’s &ls...Read More |
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Vodafone Cuts off Customers |
25/10/06 |
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| Last weekend Vodafone moved from cutting parts of their distribution network to cutting off their customers. A network blackout left parts of the UK without any mobile service for most of Sunday. The Midlands, parts of the North-West and South-East, and North Wales were affected by the outage which was attributed to thieves tryi...Read More |
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It's Not so Good to Talk for Guys |
25/10/06 |
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| If there was ever an excuse to get your chatterbox girlfriend off the line this is it; mobile phones cause male infertility. Recent research shows that men who talk for four hours or more on a mobile phone have lower sperm counts. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) studied 364 men and discovered that the sperm...Read More |
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Vodafone Announce Christmas Early |
25/10/06 |
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| Vodafone unveiled its new 3G handsets for the Christmas season including 10 exclusives and two handsets from LG, the first time Voda have had offered any of the South Korean manufacturers wares. The network, trying to generate extra revenue through higher paying 3G services to boost slowing sales growth, said it would sell 10 ex...Read More |
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O2 Offer Free Roaming |
25/10/06 |
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| Following pressure on all networks from the European Commission O2 are the first to offer free roaming, regardless of which network the call is received on. 'My Europe' is a set of low cost roaming tariffs from O2 and movistar for European customers.The new pricing plan from Telefónica, through O2 in the UK and movistar i...Read More |
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O2 - 95 + 3 = 150 |
25/10/06 |
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| 3 have bought 95 stores from O2 in a bid to double its retail presence by Christmas and boost its market share by pulling in high street shoppers.In an agreement between O2 and 3, the Hutchison Whampoa owned network will buy 73 Link stores and 22 O2 sites, continuing their strategy to build a nationwide retail presence. There ar...Read More |
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The Very Best of 2006 |
24/10/06 |
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| LAST CHANCEIt's that time of year again. It's a time for seeking refuge from the cold and dark in the pub, for banking up the fire and baking potatoes, for sending someone else out to buy Christmas cards, and for filling in 'Best of 2006' forms. To vote: Make sure you're a registered member of the website.Log in. Click the...Read More |
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| Thank you for completing the 'Very Best of 2006' survey. ...Read More |
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| RSS creates news feeds which allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and video in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from. The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that...Read More |
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Fantasy Football - Week 8 |
18/10/06 |
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| With a good scoring week for the top ten it appears the MB WebMonkey's solid second place isn't looking that solid anymore. It would seem that this competition has got a long way to go. Nishil Patel's Ace999 (him again?!) is still top and had a good week scoring 61 points. However, just when it looked like the WebMonkeys were th...Read More |
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Smartphones to Kill PCs |
18/10/06 |
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| A third of all phones shipped will be smartphones by 2010, according to Symbian, and will replace PCs as the way users access data and the internet. In the keynote speech at the Symbian Smartphone show, Symbian CE Nigel Clifford told delegates that the era of the smart phone was dawning, representing a shift "as profound as...Read More |
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Deluge of Mobile TV |
18/10/06 |
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| It seems at the moment that not a week can go by without us featuring something to do with mobile TV in some shape or form. Well this week's no different with offerings from three different manufacturers.There's no escaping it, mobile TV is on it's way and looks like it's here to stay. A fact which certainly makes WebMonkey#8 ha...Read More |
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LG's JoY at New Smartphone |
18/10/06 |
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| LG get in on the smartphone bandwagon with their first effort at a Symbian powered handset, and by the look of it they have every reason to be full of Joy. The LG JoY is a good looking slider smartphone based on Symbian OS v9 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1. With a 2.4 inch LCD screen, HSDPA radio for super fast mobile intern...Read More |
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Samsung SGH-i520 |
18/10/06 |
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| Samsung launched their new slimline Symbian PDA slider, the SGH-i520, with HSDPA connectivity at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.At only 1.8cm thick, the new HSDPA smartphone i520 is based on Symbian OS v9 and S60 3rd Edition, the same as a Nokia N95. The slim slider phone has an HSDPA radio and browser enabling Internet a...Read More |
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FCIB Owner Arrested |
18/10/06 |
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| After a fortnight long manhunt, John Deuss, owner of First Curacao International Bank (FCIB) has been arrested, having been apprehended on the sunny island of Bermuda.Detectives have been hunting the millionaire oil tycoon on suspicion of money laundering, handling stolen property, and being in charge of a criminal organisation ...Read More |
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.mobi Premium Domains up for Grabs |
18/10/06 |
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| October 27th will see the first batch of premium .mobi domain names put to auction. 'celebs', 'fun', 'laugh', and 'party' will be some of the potential site names put under the hammer. DotMobi, the official registry for the .mobi domain, will auction the first 10 premium names at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Florida on ...Read More |
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Carphone Launch eBay Rival |
18/10/06 |
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| Following The Carphone Warehouse's turbulent week, they've now launched an online auction site specifically for mobile phones. Mymobileauction.com will take on the likes of eBay as the favourite way for people to sell their old handsets. In a country with more handsets than people, Carphone hopes the site, www.mymobileauction.co...Read More |
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Newsletter Subscription Notification |
17/10/06 |
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| Thank you for signing up to the Mobile Business Magazine weekly eZine. You're now set up to recieve all the latest mobile industry news every Wednesday, straight to your inbox. Can't wait? Click on the links on the left and see what's happening in the Mobile Business world now. Register on the website and you can also comme...Read More |
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16/10/06 |
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| Fill in the details below to ensure you get our weekly newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. ...Read More |
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS |
16/10/06 |
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| The mobile business industry panel tackles topical issuesIn a highly competitive market, loyalty to a particular brand or a supplier is becoming a significant issue. What’s the best way to encourage a sense of loyalty in the mobile business? JULIEN PARVENDirector of Marketing, Fone Logistics &n...Read More |
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making my mobile mine: |
16/10/06 |
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| personalising the UIYour clothes aren’t the only thing that should change when you get home from work, says Cédric Mangaud. At the end of the day, your mobile should enjoy a little R&R, too. And we’re starting to see the emergence of the technology to allow that.To my horror, one of my colleagues turned up...Read More |
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DATA ROAMING RATES RISE: |
16/10/06 |
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| IF THE CAP FITS…Charges for mobile email and web access from abroad are characterised by a complete lack of transparency. Tim Belfall thinks the European Commission should extend its roaming caps to mobile data as well as voice. How many emails have you sent today? How many more will you send by the end of the day? It&rsq...Read More |
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Carphone Crashes as Vodafone Pull and Orange Threaten |
13/10/06 |
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| Vodafone has announced that they have signed an exclusivity deal with Phones 4U where the independent high-street retailer will have 100% of Voda's third-party business, causing Carphone's share price to plummet. Carphone were over the moon earlier this week when their share-price rose 8% following the acquisition of AOL, but ha...Read More |
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sony ericsson P990i |
12/10/06 |
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| SPECIFICATIONSize Length 114mmWidth 57mmDepth 26mm Weight 150gMain display TFT touchscreen, 256K colours, 240x320 pixels, 41x56mm Camera 2mp, 1600x1200 pixels, autofocus, video, flash, secondary VGA video call camera Connectivity 3G, tr...Read More |
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| SPECIFICATIONSizeLength 117mmWidth 69.7mmDepth 14mmWeight 144g Main display TFT, 16M colours, 320x240 pixels, 58x45mm Camera no Connectivity 3G, quad-band GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth 1.2, IR, USB Memory 75MB user memory plus miniSD slot (64M...Read More |
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| The Nokia 6233 is a classically styled candybar with a great TFT display, good stereo speakers, microSD card slot, and a 2 megapixel camera capable of capturing video in VGA resolution. It’s also a 3G phone, and must be a decent replacement for the 6230/6230i – not exactly exciting, but a real workhorse that pac...Read More |
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| The N93 caused a bit of a stir when it was announced – Carl-Zeiss optical zoom combined with a Vario-Tessar lens? Video capture in VGA resolution at a high frame rate? That cool twist-and-shoot clamshell design? Now that the phone is shipping, let’s see whether the fuss was justified. Point one: striving for the...Read More |
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| It’s good to see an alternative to the usual rectangular five-way navigation: LG is offering an iPod-like jog wheel on the U400, not least because it’s positioned as a music phone. So it’s a bit chunkier and a bit funkier than the Chocolate phone, it’s 3G, there’s a soft key for the award-winni...Read More |
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| The i320 is one of the best designed smartphones on the market. It has a brilliantly designed and solidly manufactured body, a full QWERTY keyboard,... good synchronisation abilities, sound internet and email access. It has a familiar UI in the form of Windows Mobile 5 for Smartphone and there are plenty of useful pre-installed ...Read More |
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| The N72 is an interesting phone. It certainly divides opinion: some people find it frankly unpleasant to look at and to use, others come to love it. At least it’s solid and stable, chunky but ok for a smartphone (and it’s one of the smallest N-series handsets). But it attracts fingerprints like crazy. The keypa...Read More |
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| Just 6.9mm – that’s the thickness of the world’s slimmest mobile phone. At the same time the X820 offers a rich feature set, a comfortable keypad, 82MB of internal memory, and a brilliant display in landscape format (long edge horizontal, PC-style). The build quality is superb – no creaks, no rough e...Read More |
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BenQ-Siemens E81: |
12/10/06 |
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| due Q4BenQ-Siemens calls this 3G candybar “the perfect business mobile phone”. The spec looks ok –... 262K colours and 176x220 pixels , 1.3mp camera, microSD slot, MP3 with dedicated music button. The business angle appears to consist of “timeless elegance” in the styling, and some practical functio...Read More |
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SONY ERICSSON Z610i: |
12/10/06 |
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| due Nov 2006This stylish 3G phone includes a clever mirror finish on the front cover and a hidden ‘magic mirror’ display which can only be seen when in use –...when a call or a text comes in, the display illuminates to give the effect that the caller-ID information is floating on the face of the phone itself. T...Read More |
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| due Q4 2006Yet another Windows Mobile 5.0 phone from HTC? That big 240x320 pixel touchscreen display looks familiar enough,...and quad-band GSM plus EDGE and WiFi are pretty standard these days – so too the 2mp camera and FM radio. The big plus here is integrated GPS and onboard TomTom; the only other satnav-included phone...Read More |
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| due Q4 2006This latest addition to Nokia’s L’Amour range is a good-looking 3G clamshell with a decent feature set – a 3mp camera,...3G goodies like video calling, a 262K colour 240x320 pixel display, microSD memory slot, plus the usual extras like Bluetooth, stereo FM radio, and MP3 player (with external media ...Read More |
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| due Q4Another upgrade from Nokia, this time the rotating 7370 that forms part of the L’Amour collection. In fact it looks almost exactly the same as the 7370,...apart from a 2mp camera and more memory (128Mb now, which starts to make sense of the MP3 player on board). Otherwise it’s the spec as before, including a ve...Read More |
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NOKIA 8800 SIROCCO: |
12/10/06 |
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| due Oct 2006Nokia has given the 8800 some tweaks that provide a more competitive spec – a 2mp camera instead of VGA, memory doubled to 128Mb,...FM radio and MP3 added, and a slight improvement in battery life. The lovely steel case and scratch-resistant screen are retained; the case is actually a bit thicker. Still no 3G, ...Read More |
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Samsung's New Phone is a Camera |
11/10/06 |
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| Or is Samsung's new camera a phone? Doesn't matter as we'd still be talking about the same handset. The new SCH-B600 has a 10 megapixel camera, the highest resolution on a mobile phone. Challenging Sony's Cybershot Series, the Samsung SCH-B600 also boasts a 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom, auto focus and flash. The TFT-LC...Read More |
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Orange Reinstate Wilson |
11/10/06 |
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| Following a 'thorough investigation', Orange have confirmed they have reinstated part-time political blogger Inigo Wilson who, with his 'Lefty Lexicon' caused quite a stir in political circles on the internet. Wilson was suspended from his role in community affairs back in August for writing his article entitled "A Le...Read More |
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O2 Turn Big Brother |
11/10/06 |
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| The next bill mailout from O2 will include new Terms & Conditions informing customers that changes have been made to the information O2 can collect and archive including length and times of calls, and more worryingly; location.The new T's & C's have been on O2's website for a while, but not all customers were aware, and ...Read More |
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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit - The O2 Jet |
11/10/06 |
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| Know anyone who can talk for England? The O2 Jet might be the phone for them. This robust phone boasts 9.9 hours of talktime, up to 67% more than comparable handsets. That's a lot of rabbit. O2 claim that their new Jet has 594 minutes of talktime, and over 540 hours of standby which equates to 22 and a half days. That's double t...Read More |
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Nokia Merges Sport and Music with the New 5500 |
11/10/06 |
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| Ever since the days of footballers bouncing their permed mullets and mouthing along to FA Cup songs have music and sport have been linked. It may have taken Nokia a while to catch on, but they now have with the updated Nokia 5500 - Sport Music Edition. The 5500 Sport Music (or spusic?... no maybe not) edition, the latest additio...Read More |
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Fantasy Football - In Form Players |
11/10/06 |
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| No action this week due to qualifying for the Euro 2008 at the weekend (poor show by England, let's hope they do better tonight). So this week we look at the most in-form players to give you guys an informed choice on making transfers. Form is a player's average score per game, calculated from all games played by his club in the...Read More |
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Carphone buys AOL UK |
11/10/06 |
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| The Carphone Warehouse has won an auction by Time Warner, beating off bids from Orange and BskyB, and has bought AOL's UK internet business for £370m, making it the country's third largest internet service provider.Under the agreement, Carphone Warehouse will get AOL's Internet access customer base in the UK as well as the...Read More |
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Four Euros for TDtv |
11/10/06 |
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| Four European operators are combining resources to trial yet another new mobile TV technology. 3UK, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone have joined forces for the launch of TDtv a competitor to DVB-H, DMB, and MediaFLO. Based on the Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services (MBMS) Standard provided by IP Wireless, TDtv allows 3G ...Read More |
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Motorola H5 Miniblue Bluetooth Headset |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: tbcIntroducing something truly revolutionary! The unique in-ear microphone picks up your voice through the ear canal so conversations are loud and clear –... even when in a hectic environment. Measuring only 33 x 41mm (not much bigger than a fruit pastel) this ‘barely-there’ headset fits perfectly ins...Read More |
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Nokia Cases CP-109/141/142 |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: £4There is now a great array of stylish Nokia carrying cases available to keep your mobile safe, secure and protected. The cases are compatible with the majority of Nokia phones. A low cost investment that ensures long term protection for your essential communication device. ...Read More |
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Sony Ericsson MDS-70 Home Audio System |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: FROM £100With great features such as an amplifier, full range speaker units and a subwoofer...you can enjoy all your phones downloaded music at home or work with full stereo quality. Compatible with all the Sony Ericsson phones this classy edition to any desk or home provides you with outstanding sounds and charg...Read More |
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Sony Ericsson HCB-100 Bluetooth Car Speakerphone |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: from £44Safety meets high performance. The HCB-100 doesn’t need any installation – with the sturdy clip you can easily attach it to or remove it from the visor of any car you’re in, making it a truly portable handsfree solution. It’s equally simple to use because it connects automatically ...Read More |
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Nokia MU-37 2GB microSD Card |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: from £55With phone quality and technologies ever increasing we need more memory than ever to store our movies, music, and pictures. The microSD card provides a wholesome 2GB of removable storage and increases the available memory for data, music and software applications. Which means you can store around 1,500 mu...Read More |
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Nokia BH-800 Bluetooth Headset |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: from £55New, stylish, and streamlined, the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-800 is deceptively simple. Its earbud design fits comfortably in your ear – wear it with or without the earloop. Answer and end calls, redial numbers, activate voice dialling, and switch modes—all using just one button. For tho...Read More |
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Nokia LD-2 Navigation Pack |
11/10/06 |
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| UD Price: £TBCAs an extra option the CK-20 car kit also supports first class navigation with the Nokia Navigation Pack – the LD-2 (available separately). The LD-2 comes with Route 66 software on a miniSD card and CD-Rom to make your navigation even easier. With turn by turn clear instructions, digital maps and up to ...Read More |
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SHOPPERS’ PARADISE |
11/10/06 |
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| Britain’s city-centre landlords are happy folk right now. Following the demise recently of a number of prime clients like Kookai and The Gadget Shop, there’s no shortage of conveniently-sized retail units – just right for a mobile phone shop, and boy are there going to be a lot more mobile phone shops ...The sm...Read More |
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Sony Ericsson Z610i |
11/10/06 |
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| Networks TBAPLUS• Lovely glossy top cover in a choice of bright, cool colours• Good OLED display, doubles as hidden ‘magic mirror’• Incoming call or text illuminates hidden external display – very neat effect • 3G performance, especially good for video calling MINUS • Back and inside ...Read More |
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Sony Ericsson K610i |
11/10/06 |
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| Orange, T-Mobile, VodafonePLUS• Compact, comfortable• 3G (especially good for video)• Good camera, good music player, good quality (and loud) speaker • Menu system is clear and concise MINUS • No autofocus, no flash on camera, zoom only works for VGA mode • Only video format supported is low-res QC...Read More |
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| O2, Orange, VodafonePLUS• Styling: nothing looks quite like it• Comfortable; light (81gm) and slim (9mm)• Decent extras – 1.3mp camera, music player, MP3 ringtones, email, 80MB internal memory • Clever leather case with backup battery built in MINUS • Styling: nothing looks quite like it • C...Read More |
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| O2, Orange, Virgin Mobile, VodafonePLUS• Heat- and touch-sensitive keys – plus conventional pushbutton to select functions, a good combo• Good feature set – 2mp camera, 80MB memory, speakerphone, microSD card slot • Excellent 262K colour screen MINUS • Touch sensitive keys take some getting used ...Read More |
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| O2PLUS• 3mp camera with autofocus; swivelling screen/viewfinder works well• Comfortable to use – quite light (107g) and just 20mm thick• One-button WAP access to O2 Active • Good price (£99 prepay) MINUS • It’s long • Nothing too special about the spec WE SAY Not as cool as the n...Read More |
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| Networks TBAPLUS• Good looks plus good build quality• 3G -- and there’s aren’t many 3G fashion phones around• Brilliant QVGA main display in 16m colours • 3MP camera with autofocus, flash and 8X zoom, video at 640x480 MINUS • Keypad feels oddly unresponsive (it may have been a pre-production...Read More |
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| Networks TBAPLUS• Stylish swivel phone• Upgrade from the 7370 (memory card slot, improved camera)• High-quality QVGA screen – 240x320 pixels in 30x40mm • Active stand-by display shows all urgent events MINUS • Almost unusable as a phone when closed • Spec is still a bit modest – poor c...Read More |
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| VodafonePLUS• Stylish if somewhat rococo design – beige/gold plus floral pattern• Fashion touches – translucent ‘gemstone’ as Select button etc• Comfortable size and weight, with real hand-appeal MINUS • Very average feature set (VGA camera, no Bluetooth, very ordinary screen) • ...Read More |
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Motorola RAZR V3i |
11/10/06 |
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| {mospagebreak}O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Virgin MobilePLUS• Smart styling, iconic design, supermodel slim – the first fashion phone?• Features improved from original with iTunes, Transflash slot, 1.23MP camera MINUS • Starting to look a bit underspecified now. Camera functions aren’t great • ...Read More |
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| O2, Orange, T-Mobile, VodafonePLUS• Cool, elegant design: gorgeous styling, feels great in the hand, fab light-up touch controls • Compact and light (85g) • Good music player with impressive sound quality MINUS • No expansion slot (internal memory of 128MB though) • Camera is a bit basic • Polished...Read More |
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BenQ Siemens EF81 |
11/10/06 |
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| VodafonePLUS• Looks and feels great thanks to solid metal construction• 2MP camera with clever rotating lens in the hinge (for video as well as snaps) • 3G (and slim for a 3G phone at 15.9mm thick) • 64MB internal memory plus microSD slot MINUS • Camera lens is disappointing • Ind...Read More |
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BenQ Siemens EF61 |
11/10/06 |
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| O2, VodafonePLUS• Good looks: not as brash as the CL75 Poppy• Screen switches between mirror and display • Hand appeal, with PEBL-like comfort • ‘Living Picture’ function – assign voice tags to a photo MINUS • Only 128x160 pixels • Can’t use mp3s as ringtones • Only 1.5...Read More |
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FAISAL says ... what dealers want |
11/10/06 |
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| Faisal Sheik, Average Dealer and king of the Mobile Business Dealer forum, just wants a level playing field for the independents and the chance to make lots of money. I love New York! It’s so cool, so stylish, so diverse. However, I wish I could say the same for the rest of America. Don’t get me wrong – the peo...Read More |
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Meet the RYVITA PHONE |
11/10/06 |
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| Samsung goes skinnyThe Samsung X820 has a reasonable collection of goodies on the spec sheet. It has a 2 megapixel camera, video capabilities, MP3 player, Bluetooth,...and nearly 4MB of memory for messaging-yet is more or less the same dimensions as a Ryvita cracker. Probably doesn’t taste as good with cottage cheese and a...Read More |
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Branding for Beginners |
11/10/06 |
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| In the course of this series we’ve talked about ‘brands’ and ‘branding’ quite a lot. It’s probably time for a quick refresher on brands and why they’re so important. You know a brand when you see it – MacDonald’s, Dell, Hovis, Ferrari. And Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, Nokia, Hugh...Read More |
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Mobile messaging |
09/10/06 |
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| steps into the future Enhanced messaging services are a way of tapping into the revenue potential at the same time as gradually encouraging a cultural shift towards making more use of our mobile phones. Tom Veldman thinks there are real opportunities here ...Recently, discussion within the mobile industry has focused on new tech...Read More |
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| The Mobile Business Guide toMobile SecurityA whole mini-industry has developed around the threat of mobile phone viruses. An equally vocal set of critics say it’s all hype designed to sucker us into buying anti-virus products and services. And how about Bluetooth – too useful to ignore, too risky for prime time?...Read More |
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WESTLEY MASON - MOCO DISTRIBUTION |
06/10/06 |
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| "It’s has been a great experience to work with Westley … he’s been very co-operative, understanding, patient and very helpful in setting up the account and was available and supportive at any time I needed his assistance ..."Shan Jaffri, Finlogic (UK) LtdQ What was your first paid employment? BMW tec...Read More |
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CHRIS JONES - DEXTRA |
05/10/06 |
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| Chris Jones, Managing Director of Dextra Airtime Solutions, is an industry veteran who started out as a successful photographer. Supermodels throwing themselves at your feet could well get boring – but fortunately life at Dextra is more interesting...Chris graduated from Birmingham School of Photography in 1975 and switche...Read More |
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| Map24 Mobile is a mapping service, route planner, and search aid for mobile phones (many but not all) and PDAs – and it’s free. The software can be downloaded at www.map24.com, and it looks like a reasonable alternative to a GPS-based system – the users needs an internet connection instead, and the application ...Read More |
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NAVMAN FOR SYMBIAN S60 |
05/10/06 |
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| Navman’s Mobile Travel Assist S60 navigation system is a pretty standard GPS solution for Symbian Series 60 phones such as the Nokia N-series – Bluetooth GPS receiver plus maps on an MMC card for £169 RRP. The neat extra with Navman is Navpix, a way of tagging images with GPS data. A mobile user snaps a pa...Read More |
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| A world-first in mobile phone technology is claimed by Dunfermline-based Trisent, which has developed a cost-effective system that allows mobile phone locations to be tracked continuously in real-time using standard unmodified phones without the need for GPS or for additional equipment in the cellular networks.A number of servic...Read More |
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FIRST GPS ENABLED HANDSET FROM HTC |
05/10/06 |
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| HTC’s newly launched P3300 personal navigation device will be its first handset to feature the latest TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software and built-in GPS. The announcement forms the initial phase of a deal which will see TomTom and HTC work closely together on future devices. Said Florian Seiche, Vice President of HTC Europe: &ld...Read More |
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Revenues from mobile location-based services (LBS)... |
05/10/06 |
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| in the European market will grow by 34% annually to reach e622 million in 2010, according to Berg Insight. Johan Fagerberg, senior analyst at Berg, said that the market is picking up speed through successful launches of mobile personal navigation services and location based billing plans in several European countries. &ldqu...Read More |
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Global Mobile Phone Market |
05/10/06 |
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| Growth of the global mobile phone market slowed in Q2 2006, says Gartner – but the 229m units shifted still represent an increase of 18.3% on the same period last year. It’s just that Q1 saw 23.8% growth. Gartner said the market was still on track to reach 960m phones in 2006....Read More |
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Access the Internet |
05/10/06 |
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| Web hosting company Hostway says 73% of UK consumers don’t currently access the Internet from their mobiles. Hostway director Neil Barton blames the websites for this problem, “Most web sites just aren’t flexible enough to be accessed on mobile phones.”...Read More |
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| is the Cinderella of the cellular handset world, says ABI Research, while industry attention is focused on the newer technologies such as W-CDMA and HSDPA. But the worldwide market for EDGE handsets will reach 148m in 2006 – representing 14% of the total mobile phone market. ABI points out that EDGE is the only choice for ...Read More |
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Mobile phone usage... |
05/10/06 |
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| accounted for 31% of all call minutes in 2005 – up from 28% in 2004 and 20% in 2001 – according to Ofcom’s annual Communications Market Report....Read More |
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long form mobile video content |
05/10/06 |
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| The market for long form mobile video content – which means longer than 30 minutes – is likely to remain at an experimental phase for at least two years, says In-Stat. “By 2008, however, the industry will begin to gain traction and demonstrate its long-term potential”. The portable/mobile long form video ...Read More |
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Worldwide PDA shipments |
05/10/06 |
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| totalled 3.7m units in the second quarter of 2006, a 2.7% increase from the second quarter of 2005, according to Gartner. This was the highest Q2 total on record. Much of the growth came from vendors that were not among the first tier a year ago, such as Mio Technology, Motorola and Danger. Meanwhile, last year’s prime ven...Read More |
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FACTS ON MUSIC DOWNLOADS |
05/10/06 |
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| The 2006 Digital Music Survey, carried out by Entertainment Media Research for the lawyers Olswang, is loaded with interesting statistics about the habits and attitudes of 3,000 of Britain’s music listeners.The survey ranges widely, and Olswang’s interest is of course in illegal downloads, but there are some keynotes...Read More |
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BIG FUTURE FOR MOBILE ADULT VIDEO |
05/10/06 |
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| Mobile adult video services will mean the demise of more ‘traditional’ text-based adult mobile services within the next three years, according to the latest study by Juniper Research. According to Juniper, the global market for mobile text based adult services (currently 20% of the market) is forecast to peak by...Read More |
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EASY-TO-WIN COMPETITION |
05/10/06 |
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| HAVE ONE ON USA MIXED DOZEN NOTTAGE HILL WINESNottage Hill is one of Australia’s leading wine brands, with a reputation built over many years for consistently producing high quality, flavoursome and reliable wines. And we’re giving you the chance to find out just how flavoursome Nottage Hill wines can be.With a decad...Read More |
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White-label from Dextra |
05/10/06 |
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| Dextra has told dealers it is investing in a new white-label online fulfilment system to compete with Carphone’s Vanilla Mobile. Mike Gray joined Dextra in July, after a stint running Vanilla Mobile....Read More |
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| EA’s The Sims 2 has passed the 1m mark for downloads in Europe. The mobile game was launched here just seven months ago....Read More |
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Passport to success |
05/10/06 |
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| Vodafone says that data for June and July 2006 shows that Passport customers are paying around 50% less per minute for their voice roaming calls against the year-ago average. The average cost of a voice roaming call for these users is now below E0.45 (30p) per minute. 10m Vodafone million subscribers – more than a third of...Read More |
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4m Americans to watch mobile TV next year |
05/10/06 |
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| Over 4m Americans will subscribe to mobile broadcast services in 2007, says ABI Research. It thinks mobile broadcasting – as opposed to streaming “unicast” services – will rapidly become the model of choice for distribution of live TV and movies to mobile devices in the US....Read More |
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FREE job service |
05/10/06 |
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| Mobile Business magazine has launched an innovative recruitment service for the mobile business – and it’s free to both advertisers and job-seekers. The top three job agencies have already signed up, as have many employers in the mobile industry. Check out page NNN for a selection of jobs, or go to www.mbmagazin...Read More |
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No vat refund on 3G for networks |
05/10/06 |
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| The networks’ hopes of clawing back up to £4bn of the money they forked out for 3G licences in 2000 from the government have suffered a blow after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled last month that the 3G auctions were not liable for VAT.Vodafone, O2 and 3 appealed to the ECJ that under EU tax law, they should...Read More |
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91% of 12 year Olds have a mobile |
05/10/06 |
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| Most 10 year olds (51%) now have a mobile phone, and the proportion rises to 91% for 12 year olds.So says the Mobile Life Youth Report, published today by Carphone Warehouse with data from YouGov.By a large margin, young people would rather text than talk, with 11 to 17 year olds sending or receiving an average of 9.6 texts a da...Read More |
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NEC thinks twice |
05/10/06 |
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| Japanese manufacturer NEC has stopped handset trading in the UK for at least 12 months. NEC told its operator partners last month that it would see out existing supply contracts, but that it would not supply new devices or sign new business until it had reviewed its position.Around 20 redundancies are expected. NEC has said that...Read More |
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Freshly eased Orange |
05/10/06 |
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| The Orange Future Enterprise Coalition (OFEc) was created by Orange Business Services and Henley Centre Headlight Vision at the end of 2005 to provide “fresh and innovative views on how mobile technology is affecting the way we work and live our lives”. Members include individuals from government, academia, business,...Read More |
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T-Mobile commissions rise |
05/10/06 |
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| T-Mobile has increased commissions on FlexT and Relax tariffs, by £45 and £30 respectively. ...Read More |
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Motofone speeds to market |
05/10/06 |
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| Motorola’s new Motofone, its thinnest product yet and the first of the SCPL (pronounced ‘scalpel’) line, is “the quickest-to-manufacture product in the world” according to Ron Garriques,...president of Motorola’s mobile unit, speaking in an interview. We think he means mobile phone products, b...Read More |
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Vodafone exits Belgium |
05/10/06 |
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| Vodafone is to sell its 25% interest in Proximus, the leading mobile operator in Belgium, to the other shareholder Belgacom. The price is e2.0bn in cash....Read More |
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EC consults on child risks |
05/10/06 |
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| The European Commission has started public consultations on the potential risks faced by children using mobile phones – everything from harmful content and SMS bullying to expense. The Commission hopes the debate will encourage self-regulation among Member States. ...Read More |
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| Even jazz fans have mobiles, so the Blue Note Label Group (an EMI division that includes the classic Blue Note along with other labels) is offering jazz ringtones from a roster of great jazz artists – among them Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey and Chet Baker. Cool, man....Read More |
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Mainline gets heavy with distance-sellers |
05/10/06 |
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| Orange distributor Mainline has served 28-days notice on three dealers who operate outbound call centres for failing to comply with the network’s procedures on distance selling.“There are several dealers who are dragging their heels and whose business with Orange and with Mainline is at risk as a result,” said ...Read More |
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Hutchinson leaves Virgin Mobile |
05/10/06 |
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| Virgin Mobile’s long-serving sales and marketing director Graeme Hutchinson has quit the company after seven years.Hutchinson, who has most recently been working as trading director with ntl:Telewest to develop trading strategy and distribution of products, left at the end of September and will work out three months’...Read More |
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Customer service counts |
05/10/06 |
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| Virgin Mobile and Vodafone scored at the 2006 National Customer Service Awards. Virgin was awarded the overall Customer Service Management Team of the Year, while Vodafone took Customer Service Team of the Year – Telecommunications & IT Services....Read More |
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| Here’s a neat way of giving to a conservation charity – text WLT CARBON to 87050. It’ll cost £1.50 plus network charges, and for each text received the charity the World Land Trust will offset 140kg of C02 through reforestation projects. That’s the equivalent of a return flight from London to Paris,...Read More |
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Finn flings phone |
05/10/06 |
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| The seventh annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship, held in a small Finnish town close to the Russian border, drew a hundred 100 throwers from as far afield as Belgium and Canada. But Finland’s Lassi Etelatalo hit gold, flinging a dud Nokia some 89m. ...Read More |
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Mobiles easily lost |
05/10/06 |
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| 40% of mobile devices left at airports this summer will never be reclaimed, says a survey from Pointsec Mobile Technologies. Heathrow alone has around five laptops and 10 mobile phones handed in every day, with just 60% being reclaimed – the rest go to local auction houses after 3 months. It seems we’d prefer to clai...Read More |
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Symphony Mobilises |
05/10/06 |
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| Following the acquisition of Symphony Telecom by Redstone plc this summer, Symphony is to be rebranded as Redstone Mobile. Anglia Telecom, which was also acquired as part of the deal, retains its separate identity....Read More |
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“surprising” FINE FOR CARPHONE |
05/10/06 |
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| The Carphone Warehouse has called the £245,000 fine levied against it by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling insurance “surprising and disproportionate.”Carphone CEO Charles Dunstone said: “We take every aspect of service and administration very seriously. The FSA response does, however...Read More |
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The Nokia N93 Golf Edition |
05/10/06 |
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| combines the probably unrivalled mobile video capabilities of the N93 with a unique golf application that enables the user to video their golf swing, analyse their game, and generally improve their golf. It really is impressive – a great one to demo....Read More |
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Carousel fraud success |
05/10/06 |
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| A suspected e165m fraud has been disrupted during a pioneering joint UK and German operation against VAT carousel fraud. Codenamed ‘Operation Sunrise’, mixed teams of UK and German customs officers were deployed on the Swiss-German border and at Frankfurt airport to gather intelligence about the movement of goods int...Read More |
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Mobile search wars hot up |
05/10/06 |
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| Yahoo has signed a global agreement to provide a portfolio of mobile services to 3 networks. 3 subscribers will get Yahoo Search plus extras such as webmail, Yahoo Messenger, and content via Yahoo’s Mobile Web portal.This is Yahoo’s first strategic alliance with a global 3G operator. Geraldine Wilson from Yahoo Europ...Read More |
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The new O2 Ice... |
05/10/06 |
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| is a chic 3G handset aimed at a fashionista market but provided with a good deal of functionality and offered at below £80 on some of O2’s tariffs (from £99 on pre-pay). The goodies include MP3 player, 32MB memory and microSD card slot, 3G video calling and a 1.3mp camera. There’s WAP access to O2 Ac...Read More |
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PHONE THEFT RISES UP THE AGENDA |
05/10/06 |
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| The UK’s mobile industry has pledged to cut off stolen phones in a move co-ordinated by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum (MICAF). MICAF, which represents the five primary operators plus BT, Virgin, Nokia, BenQ Siemens and the biggest mobile retailers, said the new code would mean 80% of stolen phones would be blocked...Read More |
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Custom billing software for dealers |
05/10/06 |
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| Bill management specialist Ryder Systems has launched a new billing solution designed for the telecoms dealer channel. It has signed up CBS Communication Centre in Cambridge as the first user for Atlas Bill Manager; the software is described as a powerful off-the-shelf solution that allows the dealer’s customers to access ...Read More |
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A future for micro fuel cells |
05/10/06 |
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| With energy requirements for portable and handheld devices increasing on a daily basis, traditional batteries will be unable to meet the demands of advanced power-hungry multimedia applications.A visiongain report says micro fuel cells are emerging as a viable technology alternative to bridge the current power gap, although seve...Read More |
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Hooray for Bollywood |
05/10/06 |
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| Orange customers are being given the chance to appear in a forthcoming Bollywood movie being produced by Eros International. To participate, would-be Bollywood stars need to post a picture message of themselves dressed in a Bollywood theme to Orange World; entries will be rated by other users....Read More |
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Ofcom must give base-station info |
05/10/06 |
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| The Information Commissioner has ordered Ofcom to provide all data on mobile phone base stations held within its Sitefinder database. (The database was set up in response to the Stewart Report on possible health risks from mobile phones.) Ofcom had put forward several reasons for withholding grid references and a full-search fac...Read More |
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‘best global brands survey’ |
05/10/06 |
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| Interbrand has just published its ‘best global brands survey’ for 2006, and while no network is featured – none are seen by Interbrand as ‘global’ – three handset manufacturers did make it,...along with Sony and two names that include (smallish) MVNO operations:• Nokia (6) • Disney ...Read More |
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‘Your Price Plan’ and ‘Your Extras’ |
05/10/06 |
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| Last month Vodafone UK launched ‘Your Price Plan’ and ‘Your Extras’, a new contract offering providing customers with more value and choice than ever before. Which means it looks not unlike Flex-T and the newly tweaked Orange tariffs. Vodafone is claiming “more options than any other tariff on ...Read More |
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MoCo’s recently launched Business |
05/10/06 |
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| The smiling faces belong to the first participants in MoCo’s recently launched Business Partner Programme, who were treated to a five-star short break away. MoCo aims to encourage dealers to increase their connections on the most profitable deals. MoCo is offering enhanced commissions and quarterly bonuses, PR and marketin...Read More |
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LG AIMS FOR PREMIUM POSITION |
05/10/06 |
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| The Korean head of LG’s mobile phone business has expressed the company’s intentions that “the Chocolate phone is part of our strategy to build LG into customers’ top choice among premium mobile brands”. In practice that means white and gold versions of the existing black KG800, with pink and &lsquo...Read More |
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Toucan to Pipex Internet... |
05/10/06 |
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| service provider Pipex has acquired the UK MVNO Toucan from IDT Telecom for £24m....Read More |
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Jordan for Fone Logistics |
05/10/06 |
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| Fone Logistics has appointed former Dextra/4U business acquisition manager Michael Jordan to the newly-created role of business development manager. Jordan has been tasked with driving forward the Newcastle-based distributor’s fulfilment business into the high street....Read More |
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Ryanair gets mobile |
05/10/06 |
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| OnAir is to install mobile communications equipment on Ryanair’s entire fleet of Boeing 737s. Passengers will be able to call, text and email using their mobile phones in-flight at “rates that mirror international roaming charges”. ...Read More |
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Samsung sees more sales |
05/10/06 |
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| Samsung has been saying it sees global mobile phone sales growing faster than expected this year, to reach 950m sales, while confirming that its own handset sales would meet its target of 115m this year “without problem”. If the market is growing faster and Samsung sales are on target, that implies a loss of market s...Read More |
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Saatchi for Sony Ericsson |
05/10/06 |
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| Sony Ericsson has named Saatchi & Saatchi as its global advertising agency. The present agency, McCann Erickson, missed out in the competitive pitch but will still do the Christmas campaign for Sony Ericsson....Read More |
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| Vodafone has appointed Ben Threlfall as distributor channel manager, the latest in a merry-go-round of staff changes at the Newbury-based network operator. Threlfall, formerly Vodafone head of IT reseller and distribution, replaces former distributor channel chief Keith Varty; Threlfall reports in to Rob Sandford, Vodafone&rsquo...Read More |
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TrafficTV mobile application |
05/10/06 |
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| T-Mobile is now offering the award-winning TrafficTV mobile application exclusively on its BlackBerries. Provided TrafficTV is genuinely clever and surprisingly useful for the road user; it gives you real-time traffic reports 24x7 (sourced from TrafficMaster and covering 8,000 miles of UK roads) but with the addition of relevant...Read More |
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The latest in Orange’s SPV... |
05/10/06 |
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| range is the SPV M3100, its version of the HTC TyTn that T-Mobile is also taking as the MDA Vario II. The M3100 will be available via Orange Business Services and supports Orange’s push email solution, Orange Mail, as well as the Direct Push functionality provided by Microsoft. This is the first SPV with quad-band GSM. It ...Read More |
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BlackBerry Pearl |
05/10/06 |
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| The BlackBerry Pearl from RIM is the smallest, lightest and best-looking member of the BlackBerry family. As the ads say, it’s still a BlackBerry and the keyboard is familiar; but it actually looks like a mainstream phone,... and it’s the first BlackBerry with a built-in camera, music player and expandable memory (mi...Read More |
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FREE VOIP FOR E-SERIES |
05/10/06 |
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| Mobile messaging provider aql is inviting users of Nokia’s E60, E61 or E70 to sample free peer-to-peer WiFi calling over its mobile VoIP network. To connect to aql, Nokia E-series users text ‘Nokia’ to 64446 and their phone will be configured automatically. “We are keen for all E-series users to ......Read More |
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More Firms going Mobile |
05/10/06 |
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| The number of businesses actively providing employees with remote access to corporate business systems and other services has trebled over the last 12 months, increasing from 20% in 2005 to 65% in 2006. An additional 30% of businesses will also become active in mobile during 2006, leaving just 5% with no plans to mobilise parts ...Read More |
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Quick push email for all |
05/10/06 |
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| ThinPrint, hitherto best known for its Content Beamer print-from-smartphone tools, has come up with an interesting service that provides direct push email on Cortado, one of the world’s first direct push mail services based on Microsoft Exchange.Cortado gives users with Windows Mobile devices push mail for a simple monthly...Read More |
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The money in mobile games |
05/10/06 |
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| The global mobile games market will grow from sales of $3.1bn in 2006 to nearly $17.6bn in 2011, according to Juniper Research. The Asia Pacific region will continue to dominate, representing 38% of cumulative revenues over the period. Europe will contribute 31%, North America 22% and the rest of the world 9%. Big-selling ...Read More |
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| A new high-tech promotions tool from TxtLocal enables event organisers to send group text messages without the use of a computer – and for a fraction of the cost of messaging individuals directly from a mobile. The message is sent directly to TxtLocal who then bounces it out to a predefined group, enabling everyone to be k...Read More |
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510m (oR 446m, or 102M) watching mobile TV in 2011 |
05/10/06 |
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| Three market forecasts for the growth of mobile TV have dropped on to our desk recently, and it’s interesting to observe their differences.In-Stat for instance forecasts 102m mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2010. It reckons there will be 3.4m worldwide by the end of 2006. IMS Research and ABI Research are much more bul...Read More |
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| The Puzzler Portal now available on O2 Active contains “Europe’s first and most comprehensive selection of mobile puzzles”. They come from Puzzler Media, the world’s largest puzzle content provider. And T-Mobile is offering Sennari’s PrizePlay gaming service (seven pay-per-play games with in-game pr...Read More |
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Maxdox Mobile Publisher |
05/10/06 |
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| We came across Maxdox Mobile Publisher by accident, but it’s worth a look. The software lets you create mobile publications for any Java-enabled mobile phone; it can be used to combine text, images, sounds and actions, and anyone with some basic web page design experience can use it. There’s a free, fully functional ...Read More |
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Mobile Marketing Council |
05/10/06 |
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| The Direct Marketing Association’s recently-formed Mobile Marketing Council has published its Best Practice Guidelines. They aim to show practitioners how mobile marketing applications can be used in an effective and non-invasive manner. The guidelines are available on www.dma.org.uk....Read More |
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| can now offer Yahoo! search advertising products and services to mobile content providers, through the integration of Bango’s platform and Yahoo’s mobile marketing service. Said Ray Anderson, Bango CEO: “This relationship between Yahoo! and Bango unlocks the value of the mobile internet so that every business c...Read More |
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Red Kite Animation... |
05/10/06 |
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| picked up the inaugural award for best mobile short film at this year’s Talent Circle Super Shorts Film Festival for its animated short, ‘The Imp’. The film was voted as the best film designed for viewing on phones and handheld devices at the festival by a panel of judges, and by people who voted by text to dow...Read More |
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A Virgin Double Pammy |
04/10/06 |
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| In a double whammy, Virgin Mobile announced a new tariff - the best value prepay offering on the market – and a new ‘Virgin’ face for the company, Pamela Anderson.Yesterday, Virgin announced their most competitive customer offering to date: 3p per minute calls Virgin to Virgin. This new promotional tariff is be...Read More |
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3000 BenQ Job Losses, Siemens to go legal? |
04/10/06 |
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| BenQ axes 3,000 mobile employees whilst the Siemens Board considers legal action against them after digging into their retirement funds to offer the affected workers a €30m hardship fund.The Siemens handset unit given to BenQ last year filed for bankruptcy last week after its parent company refused to make any further payme...Read More |
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Mainline announces Hong Kong Incentive |
04/10/06 |
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| The latest incentive from Mainline promises five lucky winners and their partners the chance to welcome in the Chinese New Year in five star style as they sample the sights and sounds of Hong Kong - one of the world’s most exciting and vibrant cities.“This is the second major incentive that we have offered our Club m...Read More |
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Touchy, touchy clamshell |
03/10/06 |
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| Sony Ericsson have just launched the Z558, a clamshell with a difference; touchscreen. The touch sensitive display will feature character recognition for what Sony have dubbed 'one-touch' text messaging. The Z558, Sony's first non-Symbian based handset to offer a touch screen and a stylus, is otherwise a bog standard clamshell. ...Read More |
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Watch TV on a Lobster |
03/10/06 |
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| The new Lobster 700TV isnt just for making and taking calls. It's for watching TV, listening to crystal clear digital radio, and a whole lot more besides.Flying in the face of the larger networks Virgin Mobile have now destroyed the final excuse for the couch potato's lack of exercise.Virgin's new Lobster 700TV does what it says...Read More |
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Motorolaarrrrrrggghhh! |
03/10/06 |
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| Soon the high-pitched annoying ringtone you hear in the cinema might not be someone who forgot to turn their mobile off. A new service can remotely set a phone to start screaming out loud when it's lost or stolen. Remote XT allows victims of mobile phone theft to strike back. The new service gives users the ability to cause thei...Read More |
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O2 eats into Vodafone's Pie |
03/10/06 |
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| Following Vodafone's fall from the global number one spot earlier this year, the company is also losing out in the UK market. Voda's retail revenue has slipped to leave O2 picking up the slack. In an Ofcom report published this week Vodafone were down £56m in the first three months of this year from it's peak in 2005. On t...Read More |
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Fantasy Football - Week 7 |
03/10/06 |
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| With a slow week in the football front, Mobile Business takes a look at some of the names of both teams and players, and wonders "What were they thinking?!"Still at the top of the table is Ace999, but don't worry folks the MB Webmonkeys have cut that down to 25 points, and we predict the soccer loving simians to hit to...Read More |
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