In a potential advance for the forces of paid content, The Economist is introducing a trial program today that lets New Yorkers use their cellphones to order overnight home delivery of the new issue at the regular newsstand price. AdAge reports.
“New Yorkers who have signed up for weekly texts announcing each issue’s topics will also [...]

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Vodafone has released its latest in mobile broadband, and major cities in the U.K like London, Birmingham and Liverpool will be among the first to receive the benefits. 14.4Mbps is in theory the peak rate, but customers can expect to see speeds varying from 1Mbps to 4 Mbps with a practical maximum speed of 10.8Mbps. [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia held a joint teleconference earlier today to announce the deployment of various Microsoft products on Nokia’s Symbian platform. It may not live up to some of the rumours circling before the conference that Nokia was going to work on a WinMo device, but it’s still an important announcement, for Symbian users at [...]

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Recent platform released from the Symbian Foundation amount to pretty much S60 5th Edition with extra funcionality and thus all those lovely apps that are installed on S60 handsets all over the world need not worry their pretty little heads. However, after 5th Edition we’ll basically see the end of the line for S60 as [...]

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According to the Sydney Morning Herald, eBay may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the founders of the internet telephony service.
“… eBay bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers [...]

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Tesco Mobile, one of the many MVNOs operating in the UK market, has sparked a potential price war by announcing a ne wunlimited tariff. The new tariff will be a SIM only deal and will offer unlimited calls, unlimited texts and unlimited data for £30 per month. The only stipulation is that users are restricted [...]

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Several Democratic senators are proposing new legislation that would require states to ban drivers from sending text messages and emails while operating moving vehicles. If states don’t comply with the federal mandate, they face losing up to 25% of their federal highway funds. If the legislation is passed, the transportation secretary would have six months [...]

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Today Verizon Wireless informed government agencies that it will shorten the period of time that it is the exclusive seller of certain handsets. Verizon said that it will restructure its agreements with handset makers, and will allow smaller, regional carriers with less than 500,000 customers the opportunity to sell handsets after an exclusive period of [...]

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O2 UK are now set to support NFC mobile payments, but are holding off on doing so for the moment. NFC technology allows for short range communication between devices and is being used to trial mobile payment systems using mobile phones. The user would swipe his mobile phone near an NFC terminal, which would debit [...]

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British network O2 is dipping its toes into the world of finance with the launch of pre-paid payment cards. In conjunction with Natwest O2 will offer two pre-paid VISA cards, ‘Load and Go’ and ‘Cash Manager’. The cards will only be available to O2 customers and O2 will send you text updates whenever they are [...]

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Sprint Nextel recently revealed that it plans to add Wi-Fi to the BlackBerry Tour starting in 2010, and will begin to require that all its future smartphones come with Wi-Fi. Sprint didn’t say exactly when this requirement will be reflected across its entire line-up of devices, but Wi-Fi is definitely on the way. Verizon Wireless [...]

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A blog post written up by The Huffington Post from Sonoma State University college professor and ecotherapist Shepherd Bliss, reports on a pediatrician who was shocked to see a three-year-old using a cell phone.
“The three-year-old just walked right past me, talking into a cell phone,” the Santa Rosa, CA, pediatrician said. “I was amused at [...]

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TracFone recently added a new calling plan to its list of pre-paid services. StraightTalk offers unlimited calling and messaging plus 30MB of data for $45 per month. Users can also select 1000 anytime minutes with 1000 messages for $30 per month. StraightTalk offers just three phones — the Motorola RAZR V3a and W385, and the [...]

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Who says happy endings only exist in the movies? This week sees Vodafone return to Carphone Warehouse after a three year absence. The two companies parted ways almost three years ago in a rather dramatic manner and ever since Carphone Warehouse, the UK’s largest mobile retailer, hasn’t sold any contract or mobile broadband options on [...]

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Mozilla has been making some noises about porting its Firefox web browser to Android. Until fairly recently this wasn;t do-able given that Android applications ran on Google’s Java virtual machine, but with the release of the NDK 1.0 (Native Development Kit) apps can run on Android itself. Mozilla had previously commented that because of the [...]

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