Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S.—impacting pricing for other retailers and influencing what products people buy—but it has stumbled in its effort to take that formula and repeat it elsewhere. Carphone Warehouse, the UK retailer that…

BT (NYSE: BT) added 251,000 DSL connections between April and June, while TalkTalk lost 27,000 broadband customers. BT signed up 71,000 fibre broadband customers in the quarter - but TalkTalk only 1,000.

Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now being sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, an extension of a retailing deal the two companies started in the…

With speculation building up that both Google and Apple are getting ready to launch cloud-based music services, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is making sure that it has its hat in the ring, too. The mobile company’s investment arm, Motorola Mobility Ventures, has taken a strategic stake in cloud-media service Catch Media,…

So INQ and HTC are revving up to release the first “Facebook phones”? Not exactly, but it’s a crucial step for Facebook in testing the waters for an even deeper plunge into mobile.

ISP and telco TalkTalk says it will cut 580 jobs to save £25 million this year, after seeing its Q3 revenue fall by £2 million from last year to £444 million.

Is this another example of a retailer looking to catch attention in the holiday shopping rush, or a quick response to early sales indicators? Only days after Carphone Warehouse started to advertise the Nexus S, which it is selling exclusively in the UK, the device is already getting discounted. First…

By Mark Sweney: Charles Dunstone, the chairman of Project Canvas partner TalkTalk, has dismissed criticism of the video-on-demand service by BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED), but expects to face further scrutiny before getting its final go-ahead. Dunstone admitted that there had been arguments over the strategic direction…

The Office of Fair Trading has taken two months to rule that… it is not supposed to investigate the BBC’s proposed Project Canvas connected TV joint venture. Though Canvas referred itself to the OFT in March, the agency says it actually “does not have jurisdiction” to investigate because “none of…

By Richard Wray: It’s as if the dotcom crash never happened. Today TalkTalk will open a swanky new office in Soho, central London, offering free WiFi and internet access to its customers and a roof over the head of dozens of entrepreneurs as it launches its own business “incubator”. The…

—TalkTalk: The UK ISP has announced it is upgrading its broadband customers to the fastest sync speeds that their lines will support, up to 24Mbps, as a network-wide upgrade of its backhaul network that has seen Gigabit Ethernet fiber installed between all its exchanges. It is also removing peer-to-peer traffic…

If all this world needs, it is a few more mobile application stores. GetJar is now letting carriers, retailers and other companies, launch a store using its catalog of thousands of applications. One of the first to use the white label service is The Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer…

Carphone Warehouse looks like it is putting its TV ambitions into a holding pattern until there is more movement on Project Canvas, saying it would be “foolhardy” to invest in its own TV proposition against incumbent offerings big TV operators. The comments were made during a trading update today, when…

—PRS For Music: The royalty collector, which last year nearly halved its online streaming rate, has picked ex-Sony (NYSE: SNE) mobile SVP Robert Ashcroft to replace Steve Porter as CEO. Porter quit in July. PRS did deals with YouTube, Spotify, MySpace and Sky over the last year. —TalkTalk: John Allwood,…

—Spain’s three strikes: The Cabinet has approved an anti-piracy law that offers a graduated response to sites that engage in illegal file sharing. First warnings, then an appearance before a panel of experts, who decide whether to then refer the case to a judge. via CNBC —Omnifone and Gracenote: The…

Is Carphone Warehouse finding it hard to shift its UK stock of Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre handsets? Amid speculation that sales of the Palm Pre have been flagging in the UK, the mobile retailer is offering two free flights to one of 15 European destinations to those who buy the…

BBC’s IPTV director Richard Halton now has C4 and TalkTalk to add to his Project Canvas partners BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), Five and BT (NYSE: BT). The addition of a fifth and sixth partner to the connected-TV EPG scheme means costs to the BBC will fall from the originally forecast…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s flagship smartphone, the Satio, has been pulled from the shelves of two British retailers after consumers complained of several problems, including the device freezing, the ringtone volume fluctuating and problems with phone numbers syncing with the address book. Both Phones 4U and Carphone Warehouse has stopped…

—Sky Mobile: Sky’s mobile VOD service is now available via a new Mobile TV iPhone app. Sky Sports, Sky News and ESPN (NYSE: DIS) channels are all available for £6 a month. —IP Vision: The IPTV box maker’s FetchTV Smartbox DTT product will be sold in Carphone Warehouse stores. The…