March 30, 2010 by Janet Harris Vodafone has extended its partnership with communications solutions provider TDC to include Sweden and Norway, with effect from 1 April. The non-equity Partners Market agreement has covered Denmark since 2001. The new agreement gives TDC exclusive access to a range of co-branded products, services and devices from Vodafone, the acquisition of enterprise customers... 

March 30, 2010 by Janet Harris With a decision from the Office of Fair Trading due any time, Project Canvas is bringing in the big guns to take the project forwards. The joint venture, which will bring on-demand TV to Freeview and Freesat, has appointed Anthony Rose as chief technology officer and Tim Hunt as head of marketing. Rose will bring his experience from the BBC’s successful iPlayer... 

March 30, 2010 by David Allen The Digital TV Group (DTG) has announced that Freeview’s Technical Consultant, Simon Fell, has been appointed as the new chairman of DTG’s Technical Council. He will be taking up the position from the 1st April, taking over from Dr Ian Childs who has held the position since its creation in 2004. The position is a demanding role in a fast passed environment as... 

March 30, 2010 by David Allen The electronics firm 3View has announced that its new hybrid set top box will be available for pre-order on the 7th April. The price of the new equipment will be £299. The 3View set top box is being marketed as the first piece of equipment in the UK to offer access to the free to view digital TV service Freeview and to internet based content too. Although the... 

It’s celebration time for those who use Virgin mobile phones. Reportedly, Virgin media would roll out new tariffs this week. These would be applicable to Sim only deals, contract deals and pay as you go offers. If sources are to be believed, the cuts would be made keeping in mind, the existing as well as the new consumers. Reportedly, all sorts of offerings would be made. While on one hand,... 

Those who swear by the versatility of Vodafone mobile phones have a reason to smile. If reports are anything to go by, the network major would partner with British Gas and unleash smart meters. These would supposedly provide the consumers with more authentic meter readings. If sources are to be believed, Vodafone has inked a multi-million-pound deal with British gas. The contact has been entered... 

By Thomas Newton on Tuesday, 30th March 2010 It all started last summer when I was out for a curry with some friends. While we were all totting up the bill, a friend whipped out his iPhone to work out who owed what and afterwards he started playing Fieldrunners. I’d heard about Fieldrunners (pictured above) before and assumed that it was some kind of fitness app. Intrigued, I leaned over... 

By Thomas Newton on Tuesday, 30th March 2010 RECOMBU LINK Motorola Milestone Deals Looking for a Motorola Milestone? View all tariffs and offers – Buy online now! UK Motorola Milestone owners will be happy to learn that the latest version of Android (2.1) will be made available over the next few weeks. The following message was posted over on Motorola Europe’s... 

By Kate Solomon on Tuesday, 30th March 2010 SPONSORED LINK HTC Desire – Carphone Warehouse Offers View the latest HTC Desire offers from the Carphone Warehouse. Pay monthly tariffs from £30 a month. It conquered our hearts and minds in the official HTC Desire Recombu review, and at last you can get your lusty little mitts on the HTC Desire courtesy of Carphone Warehouse. The... 

By Kate Solomon on Tuesday, 30th March 2010 SPONSORED LINK Looking for an iBend? Buy your iBend online now at Firebox.com for just £4.99. File this under ‘Why didn’t we think of this?’. We love a good phone stand, especially now we use our handsets for watching videos and the like, but never before have we seen such a beautifully simple one as the iBend... 

The new mini version of the Sony Ericsson X10 has now been given a release date and price as a SIM Free handset, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini now looks to be making a late entrance as the Mini Pro is now beating this model to market. Offering nearly all of the benefits of the current Xperia X10 model aside from its huge 4 inch screen, the Sony X10 Mini will be available as an unlocked phone... 

The Google Nexus One is the first handset offered directly by Google. The Nexus One is an android based mobile phone that surpasses expectations and offers fast processing power by virtue of its integrated Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD 8250 1 GHz processor. It is a compact unit at 119 mm x 59 mm wide and 11 mm thick, whilst weighing 130 g. The phones 3.7 inch AMOLED display screen displays colour with... 

We’ve been busy catching up with all of the latest releases and have been a bit slow to post our deal of the day recently but the editor has more than made up for it with this amazing deal for the latest HTC phone with one of the most sought after free gifts available. The deal includes a free HTC Legend which is the latest Android phone to be released alongside the HTC Desire plus a free iPod... 

The HTC HD Mini is a compact new smart phone that manages to incorporate a wide range of useful technology into a small casing. This latest HTC handset is only 103 mm x 57 mm wide and is 11 mm thick and offers effective functionality by virtue of its Qualcomm 7227 600 MHz processor and Microsoft Windows mobile 6.5.3 professional operating system. The HD Mini comes with an impressively vibrant 3.2... 

The most marketable aspect of the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is its high definition video recording capabilities and it is completely understandable that a majority of the attention is being heaped upon this feature. However, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz operating system is the foundation upon which all other functions are based and so talking a little about the Symbian S60 platform and the tweaking that Sony... 

Social networking is quickly becoming the primary mode of communication which consumers from all walks of life use to organise themselves and stay in touch. Facebook recently knocked Google off the top spot in the US in terms of monthly visitors, which could even mean that search engines are beginning to play a back seat. Mobile users will already know how important having social networking access... 

It is one of the great unspoken truths of the smartphone industry that Google is known to be annoyed at the continued customisation – and consequently fragmentation – of its Android platform by over enthused handset makers. In fact, the motivation behind the Nexus One was to show users a ‘hero’ product that could illustrate the evolution of Android without needing to wait...