
Motorola’s advertising slogan is untrue and misleads customers, Advertising Standards Authority finds The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says Motorola Mobility must stop advertising its Atrix device as “the world’s most powerful smartphone, as it misleads consumers. The ASA launched an investigation into the use of the phrase in a TV advert that appeared on June [...]
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Eric Vogel departs Everything Everywhere airtime distributor having only joined the company in March of this year Mainline Digital Communications head of sales Eric Vogel has left the company just five months after he joined the Everything Everywhere airtime distributor. Vogel (pictured) joined Burton on Trent-based Mainline in March to head up its sales team [...]
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RIM has launched three new “affordable” BlackBerry Curve handsets, the Curve 9360, Curve 9350 and Curve 9370, bringing new devices to six this month RIM unveiled its latest handsets, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 (UK model), Curve 9370 and Curve 9350 at a global press conference held in London this morning (August 23). It is the [...]
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Low-end device has long battery life and “Moto Switch” option to move from work to friend oriented interface easily Motorola plans to launch a “budget-friendly” Android 2.3 handset, the Motorola FIRE, in the UK at the end of September. The device features a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.8-inch touchscreen and a 3 mega-pixel camera. The FIRE has a [...]
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O2 promotes business manager Simon Voysey to new post of creative solutions manager to develop “intelligent and inventive” campaign ideas at O2 Media O2 has promoted business manager Simon Voysey (pictured) to the newly-created role of creative solutions manager. He will work on developing ways that O2 Media can work with advertising agencies on non-traditional advertising, as well as making [...]
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Data Traveller bundle automatically applied to business customers to help small business users save money overseas From September 19 all Vodafone business customers will be automatically opted-in to the operators Vodafone Data Traveller bundle, which provides cheaper data roaming in Europe. Data Traveller gives users 25MB of mobile internet for £1.66 + VAT in 38 European countries, [...]
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Latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia range will be one of the first handsets to feature the latest upgrade to the Android Gingerbread platform Sony Ericsson has announced the Xperia Neo V – the latest handset to be added to its Xperia handset portfolio. The Neo V runs off the Android 2.3.4 version of the [...]
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BlackBerry smartphone users will be able to build music profiles and share playlists with BBM contacts, with Omnifone providing a back-end solution for it Research In Motion (RIM) has launched BBM Music, a new social media service that allows users to share, discover, play and grow their music collections with their BlackBerry Messenger friends. Users [...]
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Three Samsung Wave smartphones, powered by the handset manufacturer’s own updated platform, follow later this year Samsung has launched the bada 2.0 – the latest update for its own mobile platform – in a move the company said said should expand the global distribution of bada smartphones. Three new Samsung Wave smartphones, to be powered [...]
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Analysts say new CEO Tim Cook’s experience and close relationship with Steve Jobs will help ensure continuity, but in the long term a new driving force may have to be found The resignation of Steve Jobs is unlikely to hamper Apple’s continued success in the short to medium term, according to analysts. Gartner analyst Carolina [...]
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