Alex Kinch

Whilst it only seems like yesterday the long-awaited Nokia N97 hit the streets, Nokia have not been sitting on their laurels – and have announced a new version of firmware will start rolling out tomorrow.

It’s been another weekend of rumours over the future of T-Mobile UK – with reports that Vodafone and 3’s parent company might team up to launch a bid for the troubled UK mobile division of Deutsche Telekom.

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Are you fed up with your old mobile? Willing to swap it for a shiny new handsets for a few weeks? We’ve three brand new 3 handsets, three cages, and are looking for three volunteers willing to lock up their old mobile and try 3 and Skype for a fortnight.

Mobile usage of Facebook in New Zealand has risen 700% since January 2009 according to figures released by Telecom New Zealand (Telecom), operators of the country’s second largest mobile network XT.
In a New Zealand first, Telecom customers with Facebook accounts can now also   sign up to receive text notifications directly to their mobile phones from [...]

Femtocell usage at home is set to grow over the next few years, with a new study from Juniper Research claiming such usage will generate in excess of $9bn per annum by 2014.
The Femtocells research found that Femtocell access points will increase to multi [...]

Australian telco Telstra’s Voice2Text – powered by SpinVox – has won the ‘Business Service Innovation’ category at the Global Telecoms Business Innovations Awards overnight.
The service – similar to other SpinVox-powered voicemail to SMS services, was originally launched in November 2007 to Telstra’s business customers – and later extended in February 2009 to all Telstra mobile [...]

WeROK, the advertising-funded, free to download and free to use mobile/web converged services application, launched last month by ROK Entertainment Group and Wi-Fi mapping company WeFI, has added free mobile games to its roster of web-enabled mobile services.
In addition to free mobile TV streamed on demand via Wi-Fi and free email, WeROK users are now [...]

Tesco Mobile has once again proved that it puts customers first by beating all other leading networks to scoop the top position in the prestigious mobile satisfaction survey from Which? Magazine for the fourth year in a row.
The authoritative survey of over 5,000 people found that Tesco Mobile was the favourite mobile operator for Pay [...]

Inventive SMS infrastructure and services vendor Telsis today unveils a solution that lets phone users discover and configure advanced SMS applications simply by sending colloquial text questions and commands.
The system, already supporting six languages with more under development, aims to make application selection and use simple and trouble-free – a critical factor if subscribers are [...]