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It appears to be official; two of the biggest and most influential players in mobile media are joining forces to capitalize on their respective strengths and as a result provide a significantly improved product to their customers. , one of the leaders in mobile content measurement, and , the developers of a robust web-based mobile advertising content management and delivery system have each managed to carve out a respectable niche for …

Japanese carrier Softbank has announced a range of new phones, and the one that stands out is the 812SH Pantone series by Sharp, if only because it comes in colours other than Black, Silver or Grey or a special edition Red or perhaps Pink - in fact, it comes in 20 different …

Venture Capital firm 3i has decided to withdraw from its investments in the mobile space.Ian Lobley, a senior partner at 3i, told AC Euro that its ivestments in mobile sector have been broad, and not so focused on say mobile content. Investments that have worked: “Investments around the semiconductor area, CSR, Sychip, Ubinetics - have been a great area for us. But middleware and software to the handsets has been good too: Magic4, Trigenix, and Bitfone. …

Video service YouTube has from re-encoding videos uploaded to the video sharing site so they can be viewed on mobile handsets. The block comes, conicidentally, after YouTube struck a deal with US carrier Verizon to redistribute videos to mobile users.TinyTube posted a comment on its forums on 30th November explaining that YouTube videos would no longer be available. YouTube and Verizon announced their tie up on 28th November.

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The Mobile Data Association has announced that with the number of SMS messages sent topping 4 billion in December, the UK has seen more than 41.8 billion SMS messages sent during the year.Person-to-person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators throughout the last month of the year show a growth of 38% on the December 2005 figure of 3.1 billion, and represent an average of 138 million messages per day. On Christmas Day this leapt to 205 million …

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Founders Alec Andronikov and Derek Merrill of competitor have launched a new mobile coupon startup after selling off their free 411 service to AT&T. The service lets you move print coupons on to your mobile phone by dialing into an 800 number listed with the print version, or subscribe to weekly SMS updates of coupons that interest you for free. Coupons are just text messages, so advertisers will have to be willing to have them spread …

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I can’t give an application a greater complement than to keep it installed on my phone and continue to use it once I’ve tested it out and posted on it. If I subsequently install an application on more than one device it should suffice to say I think the application is spectacularly useful. In the case of both of the above hold true. This is an incredibly smart, incredibly useful and incredibly easy to use application that …

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has just launched a new service being introduced by ring tone giant . is designed to help you save face while allowing you to escape from social situations that you might otherwise be forced to endure or as they put it, make your mobile a social weapon.

The new application features such escape tools as the “faux calls” (so you can escape that bad date), “faux numbers” (so you can give that loser that keeps pestering …

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Over the past few days I’ve had the chance to test out as well as meet with David Mitby, ’s Product Manager for this new and powerful application.

In a nutshell TellMe, the company that’s behind the “City and State Please” vocalizations that you hear when you call 411 or the brilliant bag tracking IVR system used by , has launched voice activated search for mobile phones.

While the bar is a little high …

Universal Music has with Groove Mobile to build an 'off-portal' music store for the publisher. The deal will let UK mobile users purchase and download full music tracks from Universal's catalogue.”Groove Mobile shares our commitment to driving the international digital music business forward through off-portal innovations that deliver mobile music to larger audiences,” stated Rob Wells, Senior Vice President, Digital, for Universal Music …