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13 February 2008
News: Mobile phone operators to measure advert success

Five UK mobile operators are working with the GSM Association in a bid to create a system to measure the effectiveness of mobile advertising.
News: Mobile WiMax to hit UK in near future

Mobile WiMax, a long-range, high-bandwidth wireless technology, may soon be making its debut in the UK. Mobile-phone manufacturer Motorola told ZDNet.co.uk it had been working with a new operator in a bid to offer the technology to the UK.
12 February 2008
News: Video: Google Android phones demoed at MWC

Google’s Android software platform for mobile phones has made its debut on a number of devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
News: Picture: BenQ's new Mobile Internet Device

BenQ is showing off a new user interface on an ultramobile PC at the Mobile World Congress, and said it plans to start marketing the product in the second quarter of this year
News: BlackBerry service recovers after US outage

Research In Motion's BlackBerry service suffered an outage in the US yesterday, but the company insists no messages were lost during the incident.
News: 3G iPhone coming this summer?

The 3G iPhone could be with us by the summer, according to a financial analyst who said that waning inventory of Apple's current model and the increasing demand in Europe for 3G products could be a sign that the handset maker is preparing the first major iPhone upgrade.
News: Nokia unveils successor to popular N95

Nokia has introduced the successor to its popular N95 mobile phone, the N96, featuring a slightly larger screen, as well as an upgraded mapping program.
11 February 2008
News: Mobile phone companies warned over prices

Once again, mobile-phone operators have come under fire for the charges users are subject to when texting and surfing the web abroad.
News: Sony launches first Windows Mobile phone

Sony Ericsson is to launch its first Windows Mobile handset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Until now, Sony Ericsson has primarily used the Symbian operating system to power its smartphones.
News: LiMo Linux phones coming from Motorola & LG

The LiMo Foundation plans to announce 18 mobile phones based on its platform - from manufacturers including Motorola, LG, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung, among others - at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today.
News: Samsung launches multimedia smartphone chip

Samsung Electronics is launching a new mobile-phone chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video.
09 February 2008
News: February's coolest gadgets revealed

February sees the world's first commercially available thin TVs, as well as a DivX-enabled mobile phone and Sony's latest DSLR range.
08 February 2008
News: Pictures: Samsung unveils latest 'Ultra' phone

At the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona next week, Samsung Electronics will present the latest model in its popular Ultra edition range of mobile phones - the Samsung Soul.
07 February 2008
News: Video: Mobiles to get Vista-esque widgets

Mobile phones could soon use widgets, or small web apps, to supply useful information directly to the screen on their handset, if plans developed by Japanese firm Access come to fruition.
News: Vodafone offers Facebook mobile in the UK

Vodafone has become the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the UK and Germany. Facebook's platform, which Vodafone will soon offer in Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal, is designed to make its social-networking application work better on portable devices.
06 February 2008
News: BT denies killing BT Fusion

Despite reports to the contrary, BT has not stopped marketing its converged fixed/mobile phone service, BT Fusion.
News: Nokia relaunches content-sharing service

Nokia has rebranded Twango, the photo- and video-sharing site aimed at mobile users, as Share on Ovi. The service is based on one developed by Twango, a company Nokia acquired in July last year.
News: Nokia previews N-Gage gaming service

Nokia has invited some Nokia N81 phone users to start playing with its delayed new N-Gage gaming service.
News: Opera Mobile 9.5 matches desktop web browsing

Opera says the latest version of its Opera Mobile smartphone browser delivers a user experience similar to that of web browsing on a desktop PC.
News: MMS goes mainstream with 448m messages

Mobile phone picture messaging is on the up. Figures released today show that nearly 448 million photo messages were sent in the UK last year. The Mobile Data Association report says 23 percent of UK mobile phone owners are now using their handsets to access the internet. In December 2007 alone, 17 million handsets were used to get online.