Last week, handset major, Nokia unveiled its own mobile television channel in an attempt to showcase its latest multimedia device and persuade users to finally embrace watching programmes on the move.
The Finnish handset manufacturer, which supplies four out of every 10 phones sold, has created a series of 96-second programmes.
Six new programmes – on motoring, fashion, [...]

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Feeling blue about the state of the world’s financial markets? Here’s a bit of cheerful news about one area of the economy that’s still powering ahead: mobile phone service.
According to a study released Sept. 22 by London-based market researcher Informa Telecoms and Media, the number of mobile subscriptions around the world will reach 4 billion [...]

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Far from being considered a social obligation, offering telecom services in rural areas has now become the hot spot for private telecom operators, says a news report. In India, nearly 75 per cent of the mobile users in the villages are now owned by private operators as cellular phones catch the imagination of rural consumers. [...]

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Here’s another study that warns that children who use mobile phones are five times more likely to develop brain tumours than those who don’t. The findings were presented at a British conference, recently.
Earlier a Swedish study had indicated that under-16s were more at risk of radiation from mobile phones because their brains and nervous systems [...]

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Driven by the rapid growth in the number of mobile phone subscribers in India, the country’s apex bank (RBI) has finally issued guidelines for mobile banking.
According to the guidelines, a transaction limit of $55 (Rs 2,500) will be imposed on all mobile banking transactions, and there will also be an overall cap of $110 (Rs [...]

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Would you believe it — there are now more mobile phones than cars or credit cards in the world? That’s a figure that Google’s engineering director Andy Rubin highlights in a company blog ahead of its launch of T-Mobile that uses Google’s Android operating system, which is a mobile open source.
As well as being ubiquitous, [...]

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Kenya’s leading mobile phone operator, Safaricom and the United Nations on Thursday launched a peace initiative dubbed the Text For Peace Campaign to enable Kenyans send peace text messages ahead of the International Peace Day.
Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph told a news conference in Nairobi the campaign will run from Sept. 18 to 21 during which [...]

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A student bought a mobile phone from Dick Smith Electronics and was shocked to find it contained pornographic pictures of staff. A university student who bought a mobile phone found it “contained pornographic images of a female employee from a Cairns Dick Smith Electronics store where she had just bought the phone,” reports The Cairns [...]

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Imagine being able to communicate with video images anywhere in the world. Regardless of the connection you still have a good image of the person you are communicating with. Ulrik Söderström from Digital Media Lab, Umea University in Sweden, has developed a technique that enables this. The technique is so powerful that it is possible [...]

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Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report says that the total value of the UGC market - comprising social networking, dating and personal content delivery (PCD) services - will rise from nearly $1.1 billion [...]

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