Studious readers of this blog will know we have covered before. Most people with a modicum of awareness of mobile technology will have heard of them. The New York Times, however, and has a write-up on interest in bringing the technology to the US.

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The Times Orange UK are about to finalise a deal which will see Orange users able to access their Bebo accounts from their mobiles.The tie-up - Bebo's first with a mobile operator - will allow Orange customers to edit their Bebo profiles, update their blogs and find friends on the online “hang-out” without sitting at a personal computer.The deal with Bebo will start out as an exclusive, but as other operators have also been talking to sites lilke Bebo and Myspace, this may not last.

The History Channel has announced the launch of a pay to access WAP portal in the UK.The service includes a “This Day in History daily feature with text and images, program information, video highlights, quizzes, wallpapers, games, polls and competitions”, as well as access to its encyclopaediaThanks to .

are reporting that US carrier AT&T has received more than 1,000,000 enquiries about Apple's newly announced mobile phone, the iPhone.Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless service being rebranded as AT&T, will be the first to sell the music-playing iPhone when Apple, the maker of the popular iPod music player, begins shipments in June.

While Cingular is not taking advance orders for the iPhone, it set up a section on its Web site inviting …

this morning, Yahoo! has decided to eliminate the 1GB storage cap on its free e-mail as it has integrated Yahoo! mail with Apple's upcoming iPhone, and expects demand to explode.

Apple previously announced it would include IMAP integration with Yahoo! mail …

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Voice messaging service no longer requires recipients to be pinger members in order to listen to messages on their mobile phones. Instead, upon receiving messages from Pinger users, recipients will be prompted by a text message to click and call a local number to hear the message. Previously non-members were emailed Pinger messages. Sending messages out and managing contact lists will still be reserved for Pinger members, however.

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Katie Fehrenbacher over at GigaOm is U.S YouTubers will be treated to a mini version later this year at the conclusion of the exclusivity clause in YouTube’s contract . The service will be live in Europe later in May.

The mobile version will be a condensed version of YouTube, featuring 800 videos picked by YouTube’s editorial staff. No word yet on what video format they plan on using to navigate mobile’s maze of varying …

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Yahoo! has announced a new service that will be kind of a big deal for the mobile arena. Yahoo! Mobile Publisher Services is a suite of services designed to enable publishers to increase the discovery, distribution and monetization of their content on mobile phones. The suite is comprised of Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network, Mobile Content Engine, …

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VoiceSignal makes the majority of voice recognition systems found in almost every major handset made. Never heard of them, you say? Well, that’s because they’re so embedded that its a struggle for them to even get their logos on the handset …

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HOMBRE, which stands for Hands On Mobile Runtime Environment, is a 65 kilobyte environment for building mobile applications. It can run on almost any handset and actually uses the handset’s on board applications and API calls to play video, audio, and access network features.