Mobile Miscellany: week of May 7th, 2012

May 12, 2012 No Comments

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, Sprint reassured us with optimism for Windows Phone 8, and T-Mobile’s CEO found a new partner to continue the fight against Verizon’s [...]

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Mobile Miscellany: week of March 12th, 2012

Mar 18, 2012 No Comments

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, we’ve seen T-Mobile expand its network coverage and take an argument to the FCC regarding interoperability requirements of the 700MHz band… Tweet [...]

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Industry Moves: Financial Times, Future, O2, Emap, Moo

Jan 26, 2012 No Comments

Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… —Future Publishing: News International senior digital trader Nick King is becoming the magazine publisher’s new digital commercial director, heading up digital sales and ad ops teams across Future’s Bath and London hubs from February 6… [...]

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Updated: Privacy Alert: O2 Accused Of Sharing Mobile Surfers’ Phone Numbers

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments

O2, one of the largest mobile operators in Europe, says that it is currently investigating accusations that it is sharing its customers’ mobile numbers with websites visited while surfing on the carrier’s mobile data network… Tweet This Post

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O2 data breach potentially shares your cellphone number with the world

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments

There’s an alarming rumor circulating that suggests that UK network O2 forwards your phone number to any website visited on a smartphone. Lewis Peckover built a site that displays the header data sent to sites you visit, finding a network-specific field called “x-up-calling-line-id” which displayed his number… Tweet This Post

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Let’s Try This Again: UK Regulator Revises 4G Auction Terms For Q4 2012

Jan 12, 2012 No Comments

While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date… Tweet This Post

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More Carrier IQ Detail: Nokia, Google, O2, Verizon, Vodafone UK Say No Dice

Dec 01, 2011 No Comments

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here… Tweet This Post

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RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology

Nov 24, 2011 No Comments

As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just the last two days, no less than four major mobile players have been linked with new initiatives around NFC technology, the wave-and-pay system that its supporters hope will turn your mobile device [...]

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Mobile Miscellany: week of November 14, 2011

Nov 19, 2011 No Comments

This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of November 14, 2011: Sony Ericsson has teamed up with Ingram Micro, a distributor that ships [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Note now available on O2 in the UK, priced at around $400

Nov 18, 2011 No Comments

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a week after O2 announced that the Galaxy Note would be “coming soon,” Samsung’s 5.3-inch handset has just popped up for sale on the UK carrier’s site. It’s available now for £250 (or about $396) on the most basic of monthly plans, offering a hybridized notepad/tablet experience, in [...]

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Three Cries Foul To EU Regulators Over British Mobile Commerce JV

Nov 17, 2011 No Comments

We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other cross-operator services like advertising… Tweet [...]

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Galaxy Note hooks up with O2, brings the hybridized goods to British hands

Nov 12, 2011 No Comments

Sammy’s already released its massive mobile in-betweener to the UK, but so far the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note’s failed to catch on with the country’s carriers. Well, the winds of wireless change are sweeping in and O2 looks to be the spot for your subsidized needs… Tweet This Post

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