UK retailer: We'll sell 10k iPhones on day 1 (MacNN)
Carphone Warehouse, Europe's biggest independent mobile phone retailer, claims it is expecting to sell up to 10,000 iPhones when the device goes on sale in Great Britain next week. The iPhone will be sold through O2 UK and be made available through retail outlets like Carphone Warehouse (alongside Apple retail outlets and the online Apple store) st... ...more...Lebara Mobile Advised by Piran Partners On UK MVNO Agreement (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LONDON----Piran Partners LLP advised Lebara Mobile on the acquisition of its Mobile Virtual Network Operator agreement in the UK. Lebara Mobile launched its service in the UK earlier today and is Europe's leading MVNO addressing the needs of new immigrants to a country....more... HBOS launches ?mobile? student credit card with Incentivated (e-Consultancy)
London, UK - 1st November 2007. Mobile marketing agency Incentivated has today announced that it has been appointed by HBOS to launch its first ?mobile? credit card for students under its Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands. The product will allow students to be in control of their credit card, by......more... Phones4u Retains Vodafone UK Exclusive Contract Sales Deal (Cellular-News.com)
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Vodafone Group has renewed its mobile phone sales deal with private-equity backed retailer Phones4u, for contract customers....more... Millions of Japanese mobile phone users will soon be able to download music and video ringtones from some of the ... (The Herald)
The liquidity and credit crisis ?could lead to significant long-term issues? for the economy, according to former Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Peter Burt....more... Football club backer sells phone company (Daventry Today)
A DAVENTRY-BASED mobile phone company, which saved the town's football club from financial ruin, has been sold, making several staff redundant....more... Windows Mobile's standard home screen (WindowsForDevices)
A few vendors -- most notably HTC, with its TouchFLO interface -- have replaced this home screen with their own, however. TouchFLO, sometimes seen as the Windows Mobile world's answer to Apple's iPhone, is said to be able to distinguish between finger and stylus input, responding accordingly....more... Mobile Phone Payments to Soar by 2011 (BusinessWeek)
"Wave-and-pay" cards embedded in cell phones via near-field communications software will soon become consumers' payment method of choice ...more... ANALYSIS - Google phone could be tough sell to U.S. carriers (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc, which is used to dominating the Web search advertising business, may find negotiating its way into the cell phone market a tougher task....more... |