Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Orange has confirmed it is to offer the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 on both pay as you go and pay monthly tariffs from August. Talking up the social networking capabilities of the handset, manufacturers RIM say it will support mobile access to both Facebook and MySpace, as well as offering the usual email and messaging services.

Global HSPA connections will pass the 150 million mark by the end of the summer, according to figures released today by the GSM Association.

Suffering from flu I’ve been passing way my time playing the addictive Waterslide iPhone app, possibly the best piece of mobile marketing I’ve ever seen.

I have a T-Mobile broadband stick with a Fair Usage Policy which I’m very happy to keep within where possible.

UK mobile network 3 is to sell advertising space within its mobile broadband ‘dashboard’ to 3rd parties, a move the company says will provide advertisers with access to more than 1m mobile broadband users.

Vodafone UK is to be the first mobile operator to offer the Samsung NC10 ultra-mobile netbook with built-in mobile broadband connectivity.

In an unqualified victory for consumers, EU-wide caps on roaming call and text charges and data use have now been imposed, with data use now capped at at one euro per megabyte. That cap will decrease further over the next two years to €0.80 in 2010 and €0.50 in 2011.

Orange business customers can now opt for the HTC Touch Pro2 smartphone which combines multimedia and powerful business tools with smart styling.