—Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Android: Next up in Amazon’s increasing use of the Android platform is the free Amazon for Android app for the UK market. This is an extension of the iPhone app already available: in addition to being able to access all regular Amazon online shopping services, users can…

You’ve gotta hand it to Three: just when European operators (and other mobile operators worldwide) are jumping back into mobile data caps, the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator has come out with a zinger: a mobile plan that offers unlimited data, on top of generous allowances for voice calls and texts.…

Three, Orange and T-Mobile officially launched their subsidised iPad sales in the UK today. Three appears to be offering the best deal of all at this point, offering “three” times as much data (geddit?) for the same price as the other two. But do users need so much?

O2 UK is preparing to carry iPhone 4 - by ending unlimited data plans. The telco’s network has been pounded by data-hungry iPhone users over the last couple of years, for most of which it had iPhone exclusivity, and has suffered a reputational hit from occasional resulting outages. Now it’s…

—Timeses’ apps: As the papers’ new pay-for sites launched, so, too, did iPhone apps, with no fanfare, ME spotted, though there’s confusion out of The Times on whether they’re really new. The deal - £2 a week for a hideous digital replica, better plain-text stories and weird text-to-speech audio. —3UK’s…

—BBC Comedy: The Beeb is unveiling new web comedy series from Mitchell & Webb, Lenny Henry and James Corden as part of a relaunch for its bbc.co.uk/comedy site. Via C21. —Pirate Bay: The torrent site went down after a Hollywood injunction convinced its host to stop routing its traffic. More…

—Vodafone/Foursquare: A European operator deal for the location-aware mobile social media app. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK customers can now “check-in” to Foursquare, through Vodafone’s live! portal, through the MyWeb sign-on, or by texting Foursquare to 97886. Normal data charges still apply to use the app, though. —FoneStarz/Disney: More content deals…

As expected, five UK-based mobile operators have started sharing data with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) and the GSMA in an attempt to eliminate two of the biggest problems facing the mobile content industry: lack of consistency and transparency in reporting mobile internet trends. In the first report released today, preliminary results…

This is the least surprising carrier relationship Spotify will get (since 3’s owner Hutchison Whampoa is controlled by Spotify’s big private investor Li Ka-Ching), but will nevertheless serve to demonstrate the kind of bundling the music service wants to do… Spotify will be delivered through the 3 mobile carrier in…

—Yell.com iPhone: Yell Group has released a free iPhone app offering Yell.com’s local business and service search functions. The company recently signed a deal to put its search widget on Samsung phones. Release. —3 UK: The operator is to give UK customers mobile banking services via a tie-up with Monitise.…

Hutchison Whampoa’s mobile carrier 3 posted two percent better January-to-June revenue than last year of £784 million from the UK and Ireland, after attracting four percent more customers during the period, up to 5.59 million. But average revenue per customer plummeted 13 percent to £29.36 on price competition and a…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is mulling over a bid for T-Mobile UK, a move that would catapult them to the lead of the British mobile phone market, one of the most competitive markets in Europe. The FT.com, citing “people familiar with the situation” said that Vodafone, the world’s largest carrier by…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding its channel lineup to 3’s mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster’s channels were already available through services offered by Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and in O2’s now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit is bringing the channels to…

Three parent Hutchison Whampoa is calling for roaming data charges to be lowered across Europe. It said it had reached a million mobile broadband subscribers across the continent but is being stifled by high costs. European telecoms director Christian Salbaing: “Consumers are rightly fearful of the excessive charges faced when…

The UK’s five largest operators—Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports that networks are also working with the GSM Association, the handset industry trade body, to develop a standardized set of…

O2 and 3 UK are combining their user generated video services—O2’s LookAtMe! and 3 UK’s SeeMeTV—to launch EyeVibe, to create what they claim is UK’s largest open access mobile video community. Members of the service upload mobile videos to the mobile site of eyeVibe, which other members can interact with,…

Three is following Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) by adding the MusicStation unlimited music download service to handsets in Hong Kong. The music shopfront and library software service, unveiled at 3GSM by Britain’s Omnifone, is an all-you-can-eat offering allowing customers to download as many tracks as they like for a small weekly…

Apparently the phone that is reportedly being developed jointly by Skype and mobile operator Three is a go-er, although neither company is still officially confirming this. It’s code named the “white phone,” it will launch by the end of this month in the UK, Italy, Hong Kong, and Australia (going…

A memorandum sent out by Hutchison Whampoa soliciting interest for its 3 Italia unit could mean a sale of the UK assets will also be imminent, writes The Times This is because the market has long assumed that an Italian divestment would precede one in the UK, although the operator…