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The Dow Jones and WSJ are reporting that Deutsche Telekom, T-mobile’s parent company, and France Telecom, Orange’s parent company, have agreed a deal that will see T-Mobile merge with Orange to create the UK’s largest telephone company. The 50-50 venture will see Britain’s market leader O2 service lose its number one position, and the newly [...]

Recently, there haven been two market developments in The Netherlands which are very interesting. The first one is that recently the Dutch social network Hyves announced the opening of their own online app store where they will offer both online and mobile apps. The app store will be supported by a payment system, so Hyves [...]

If your carrier offered to take a hefty chunk off the cost of a mobile handset but you let them put advertisements on the home screen, would you take the deal? Nokia thinks you might. Our source deep within Nokia’s headquarters has just leaked us a bunch of information about the company’s future operating system [...]

Facebook’s battle with Twitter just got more interesting. Two months after its homepage redesign, Facebook’s iPhone application has caught up to the web version, and now features real-time updates. This is actually a much bigger deal than it sounds. Facebook is clearly looking to take on Twitter with its recent focus on realtime and the [...]

No, China is not technologically behind,but this is the Chinese Razor phone – with David Beckham as its unofficial ambassador -  has just been launched and is cutting edge, literally. The Cool758 Razor as the phone is called, is the first phone that has an actual working electric razor function build in! Apart from this [...]