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• 12 March 2009

• News: Microsoft offers app developers 70% of sales

  Microsoft has revealed it will hand over 70 percent of any sales of software sold in its app store to the developer.

• News: Mobile phone market decreases for first time

  The worldwide mobile phone market will decrease by about 8 percent this year, although smartphones will remain a growth area, according to a new forecast from IDC.

• News: MIT mobile phone batteries charge in seconds

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have developed a way to charge lithium ion batteries in seconds, instead of hours, opening the door to smaller, faster-charging batteries for mobile phones and other devices.

• 11 March 2009

• News: T-Mobile G1 users get paid-for Google apps

  T-Mobile G1 handset owners will be able to download paid for apps for their phones from tomorrow.

• News: Nokia unveils new Comes with Music handsets

  Nokia has unveiled three new handsets that are compatible with its Comes with Music service.

• News: Apple blocks Twitter app from iTunes store

  Apple has rejected a Twitter app from being made available in its iTunes app store because it contained obscenities.

• News: Google blocks free iPhone text messages

  Google will block an Apple iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it.

• 10 March 2009

• News: iPod menus to speed mobile phone web browsing

  sNorwegian company bMenu has launched a mobile portal called bMenu.mobi, which uses its own technology to pare down the navigation of websites to just an iPod-like hierarchical menu. The goal is to speed up downloads and reduce data downloads, according to the company.

• 09 March 2009

• News: Barclaycard & Orange plan mobile phone credit cards

  Barclaycard and mobile network provider Orange have joined forces to develop a contact-less payment system, which the companies hope can be rolled out in the UK.

• 07 March 2009

• News: 10 'offensive' iPhone apps Apple blocked

  Apple has insisted on full control over its iTunes App Store, which offers downloadable software for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This has irked more than a few app developers, especially when their creations have been rejected for inclusion in the store, for on occasions, silly reasons.

• 05 March 2009

• News: Microsoft ups efforts to take on iPhone

  Microsoft has revealed it plans to concentrate on its position in the mobile market in a bid to keep up with competitors such as Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), which produces the BlackBerry handsets.

• News: Acer plans free smartphones for all

  Acer wants to bring the wholesale cost of smartphones down so far that mobile network operators can afford to give them away. It aims to release two such phones by October, said Aymar de Lencquesaing, the head of Acer's Smart Handheld Business Group.

• 04 March 2009

• News: Skype offers voicemail-to-text service

  VoIP service Skype is joining forces with Spinvox to offer users a voicemail-to-text service.

• News: Amazon combines Kindle and iPhone

  Amazon has released a Kindle e-book reader for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, giving Kindle readers another way of reading e-books

• 03 March 2009

• News: Mobile shopping still suffers security worries

  Mobile shopping is still some way off the levels of adoption seen on the web, according to two recent surveys, with concerns over mobile security paramount.

• News: Nokia Comes with Music to go DRM-free

  Nokia has revealed it may consider following in the footsteps of Apple and remove the digital right management (DRM) from the music tracks available through its Comes with Music service.

• News: Smartphone users only download 5 apps

  Smartphone users, including Apple iPhone owners, generally download five software applications each, according to market researcher InStat.

• 02 March 2009

• News: O2 & Orange angry at Nokia N97/Skype tie-up

  Mobile operators O2 and Orange are considering refusing to offer Nokia's N97 handset unless the phone manufacturer removes Skype software, which comes installed on the phone.

• 27 February 2009

• News: Free Apple iPhones for next two months

  Apple iPhone sales are so poor, the handset is to be given away as Softbank, the exclusive mobile carrier for the iPhone in Japan, finds itself left with a bit of a white elephant.

• 26 February 2009

• News: Google stops unlocked G1 users buying apps

  Google is preventing consumers that bought unlocked version of the T-Mobile G1, the first handset to run its Android Platform, from downloading copyright-protected apps for the mobile phone.

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