Orange today announced that it has been selected as the sole mobile communications supplier by Derby City Council, enabling the Council to make savings of an estimated 200,000 per year.
The deal will see Orange primarily supply the council with 1,500 voice connections and Orange Wirefree Extension, which allows reduced-rate calls between [...]

Beta success

Microsoft’s MSN Video Player
MSN Video Player has been a big enough success through a pilot scheme to be launched as a major new product, and Microsoft is not ruling out offering the service to television manufacturers, on Xbox and through the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Series.
A million people have already used the ad-funded [...]

Bill Eyres, Head of CR and Sustainability at O2, unveils Think Big – a £5m investment in young people.
Young people today get a bad rap. Amazingly, research shows that 46 per cent of adults believe there is a negative view of young people in society. It’s not fair. And more [...]

Only one million to be sold this year

The Nexus One failing to live up to expectations
Google’s plan to release its own mobile phone – the Nexus One – seems to have backfired as sales estimates have been slashed.
Such was the hype around the search giant’s own phone that some analysts predicted that the Nexus One [...]

And not a jot of blurrycam to be seen!

The new BlackBerry Slider next to an 8900
The rumoured BlackBerry slide phone has been spotted in the wild once more – this time in more high res shots.
You will hopefully remember we brought you news of the first slider yesterday, which came complete with the – apparently [...]

Handsets just the ticket

Eat. Tea. Phone. Home – simple
The amount of consumers using mobile phone boarding passes has dramatically risen, with one company quoting a 1,200 per cent increase.
UK-based company Trinity Mobile is reporting that it has found that more and more people are using its phone-only boarding pass service, which negates the need for [...]

Touch screen technology and voice activation were once the subject of science fiction films but are now common place in many businesses across the world. With even translator phones soon to appear in our offices, it is hard to imagine where mobile devices will take us next.
Anthony Keyworth, Director of [...]