British mobile phone giant Vodafone Plc said on Friday it had bought troubled media group Vivendi’s 50 percent stake in their web portal joint venture Vizzavi for EUR 142.7 ($140.6 million). The much-touted move comes as Vivendi, the world’s secon…

Swedish mobile manufacturer Ericsson may be running out of patience with its handset joint venture with Sony. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Ericsson’s CEO, Kurt Hellstrom, has warned that he will not continue ‘pouring money’ in…

Sonera, the Finnish network operator, has confirmed that it will launch a token 3G service on 26th September 2002.

The services, which use MMS and mobile Java technology, will operate primarily over GSM and GPRS network infrastructure, although…

Sonera Corporation today announced Juha Varelius, a member of Sonera’s Executive Management Team and Head of its Products and Services layer, has stepped down and that Yahoo Europe has appointed him vice president and managing director of Yahoo! M…

Samsung has licensed Nokia’s Series 60 platform for use in its Symbian smartphone products.

It is the third such agreement Nokia has announced in recent months, extending its Series 60 interface and applications layer to devices from Siemens, M…

Research by Comscore Networks suggests that there may be as many as 9.9m mobile internet users in the US.

Comscore surveyed 60,000 Americans and extrapolated the results to find that 5m people use a handheld computer to access internet services…

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), the industry group recently formed from the merger of the WAP Forum, SyncML initiative and other organisations, has announced specifications for standardising the process of downloading content to mobile devices.

The…

Network operator mmO2 has announced that it will introduce a Java gaming service in the UK from the beginning of September.

Customers will be able to download a wide range of colour and greyscale games to handsets such as the Siemens M50, Nokia…