Motorola has partnered with Microvision to add a PicoP miniature projector on a prototype phone. With this, future Motorola handsets will have a big-screen viewing experience.

According to the : By projecting content displayed on the device screen onto a wall, object or even a curved surface, mobile users …

For aspiring authors who do not have much time to sit down with their computers and compose the next best-selling novel, you can try using your mobile phone instead. This is what Italian author Robert Bernocco did to finish his 384-page science fiction novel, or Fellow Travelers in English.

Mobile phone manufacturer has acquired social media sharing site, , for $96.8 million.

This acquisition will help to seamlessly facilitate sharing of content between mobile devices and desktops. According to their press release: “The Twango acquisition is a …

After a month of absence, I’m finally back here to deliver more interesting mobile trends affecting the way we communicate with each other. So here we go.

First stop - .

After months of marketing hype coming from Steve Jobs and powered by blogs all …

Carnival of the Mobilists number 83 has arrived, hosted on .Emerging from the GoldenSwamp is Carnival of the Mobilists 83 in full swing at Hogwarts. The Epilogue in the final Harry Potter book released this week reveals that Hogwarts must prepare for a new generation of young wizards and witches. We don’t have to be clairvoyant to know mobile learning must be a major ingredient of the education brewed for the new generation at the fabled school. Uncertain …

I stumbled across this item on , but haven’t been able to access the relevant page on . According to the story, O2 are planning on closing their i-mode service due to a lack of takeup.Mobile phone company O2 is understood to be dumping its i-mode mobile internet service in Britain, owing to low take-up and a lack of attractive handsets.

The company, owned by Spain’s Telefónica, launched i-mode less than two years ago with its largest advertising campaign since rebranding from BT Cellnet.

Global use of SMS text messaging is continuing to rise, according to figures released by Informa. According to World Cellular Data Metrics, more than 620 billion messages were sent worldwide in the first quarter of 2007.SMS revenues were up 23% over the same period, helping total data revenues to reach US$34.3 billion in the quarter, the highest ever. The higher increase in SMS traffic compared to revenue reflects lower SMS tariffs and the greater availability of bundled packages.

I've deliberately avoided posting about this subject the past few days, although I've been following it since it first website last week. I've also been encouraged to write about the post by a number of other bloggers.

I've vacillated between two schools of thought about this topic, but the one I keep coming back to relates to the underlying principles of capitalism, where Sprint are well within their rights to terminate any …

The BBC is reporting that UK operator O2 has secured a deal with Apple to be the exclusive provider of the iPhone in the UK.A spokesman for O2, which is owned by Spain's Telefonica, declined to comment on the reports.

More than 500,000 iPhones were sold in the first weekend in the US by AT&T, which has exclusive rights there.

Vodafone had previously been tipped as the likely winner of the contract.

The agreement with …

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Mobile Crunch chatted with Ojas Rege, Yahoo’s vice president of global mobile products to talk about mobile content, advertising and the significance of the iPhone (for which Yahoo provides Yahoo Mail, a push email service, OneSearch and financial and …