News analysis
VAS provider wants Euro breakthrough
Targets adverts as entry point
Indian VAS provider IMImobile is set to make a move on the European market in 2008, pushing its vision of managed and monitored value added services, content management and mobile applications.
Orange builds for future
Orange ceo brings back room team with him
It’s a given in football that when a new manager is appointed, he brings his “back room” team with him. An assortment of coaches, fixers and physios, these men are usually trusted officers who act as both the manager’s eyes and ears, but also as enforcers, in the club at large.
When England’s Football Association went to Italy to throw sterling at Fabio Capello until he agreed
Another slow year in the mobile trough?
Analysts say Alcatel Lucent has €500 million losses in WCDMA business
Several mobile companies face a tough first quarter to 2008, according to market analysts Credit Suisse, and the fundamentals of the mobile infrastructure market remain weak, with no significant revenue upturn till 2009 at the earliest.
Yahoo! opens up Java platform
Bring us widgets
Yahoo! will open up its application development platform to third party developers and content providers in a bid to boost the “internet experience” of mobile users.
The web giant, which is competing with Google and others for mobile internet eyeballs, has said that it wants to “lead a mobile exosystem serving billions”. To do its Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform will target four strategic areas. First, Yahoo! says
Buongiorno puts former iTouch man in charge of further acquisitions
Italian digital content provider Buongiorno has put Wayne Pitout, former Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of iTouch, in charge of its M&A strategy, as the company targets further growth opportunities in 2008,
iPhone out performing market on ad impressions
We have some more market stats on mobile data use. This time our info hasn’t come from an operator, but from AdMob, which has been tracking ad impressions on its network by device.
3 UK and T-Mobile to share 3G network - and more?
UPDATE: T-Mobile and 3 UK ceos speak to Mobile Europe
T-Mobile's UK ceo Jim Hyde has told Mobile Europe that he thinks there could be "lots of things" his company and 3 U K could collaborate on in the future.