Baddiel and Skinner return for World Cup 2010

March 2nd 2010

This would be big news even if there wasn't a mobile phone angle to the story - but, don't worry, there is. Sony Ericsson is working with Absolute Radio to offer a fantastic competition for free tickets to the tournament and a chance to report with Baddiel and Skinner. more...

T-Mobile/Orange merger cleared by Europe

March 1st 2010

The joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange in the UK has been cleared by the European Commission. The combined network operator will become the UK's number one with 37% of the market. more...

Palm Pre gets webOS 1.4 update

March 1st 2010

Palm has issues an update of its operating system, webOS, to 1.4 - with video capturing, faster apps and new alerts being some of the new features. more...

Virgin launches EU net surfing 'travel passes'

February 22nd 2010

Virgin Media has launched a series of 'travel passes' to offer discounted mobile data usage within the EU. Passes start at £4 and can be purchased by sending a simple SMS. more...

Nokia X6 gets exclusive b@TV content via Phones 4u

February 19th 2010

The Nokia X6 16GB will come with exclusive music content from b@TV when you buy from Phones 4u. The service offers streaming content from the best music clubs, DJ sets, festivals and lifestyle venues. more...

3 to sell HTC Desire in UK

February 18th 2010

3 is adding the HTC Desire to its portfolio, with a release in the Spring. This follows news that the Desire is coming to all of the other major networks in the UK. more...

MWC: Industry unites to form Wholesale Applications Community

February 15th 2010

The creation of the 'Wholesale Applications Community', consisting of 24 leading mobile operators, aims to build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users. more...

MWC: Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7

February 15th 2010

Microsoft has finally announced Windows Phone 7, the operating system that could finally make Windows Mobile everything it should have always been. Following the announcement comes news that most networks and handset makers are fully backing the OS. more...

MWC: Nokia and Intel merges software platforms to create MeeGo

February 15th 2010

Intel and Nokia will each work together to work on a combined platform for future computing devices, called MeeGo; a merger of Maemo and Moblin. more...

MWC: Symbian Foundation announces latest platform and gives it away!

February 15th 2010

Symbian Foundation today unveiled its latest platform, Symbian^3 (S^3) that will be used on devices in the second half of 2010. It is totally open-source and has been given away for free to everyone. more...

Nokia Booklet 3G hits the Nokia online shop

February 12th 2010

The Booklet 3G is now available from the Nokia website for £649.99. The mini-laptop ships with Windows 7 and offers up to 12 hours battery life. more...

Tweet free on 3 in February and March

February 5th 2010

For February and March, 3 is offering every subscriber completely free use of Twitter, via the mobile website or a dedicated Twitter app. more...

Symbian completes biggest open source migration project

February 4th 2010

The Symbian Foundation has now fully completed its open source migration project, meaning the platform that has been around for over ten years and is in over 330 million devices is now completely open. more...

Virgin Media gives free landline to mobile calls

February 1st 2010

From April 1st 2010, Virgin Media will offer new and existing Virgin Media customers free landline calls to Virgin mobile phones. This equates to around four million UK home phone customers who have a home phoneline with Virgin. more...

Half a million pounds of phones recycled over festive period

January 18th 2010

Mobile phone recycling website SellMyMobile.com today revealed that consumers recycled more than £545,000 of old mobile phones between December 26th 2009 and 15th January 2010. more...