Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other…

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket—centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit—and with today’s results it’s easy to see why: the company today released some dismal results for some of its legacy businesses—namely in its home market of Spain—which have resulted in…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device—and what, exactly, that device will be. Today, a new report out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech takes that one step further to lay out which operator will…

Some more consolidation in the digital marketing space, with one of the UK’s bigger mobile specialists, Mobile Interactive Group, showing that it wants to get involved in doing more cross-platform business: the company is buying 44 percent of Digital Jigsaw. Prior to today’s news, MIG had already owned 56 percent…

Very big news today for the mobile advertising world, and a major boost for the mobile ad network InMobi: the company has just announced that it has raised a massive funding round—$200 million—from the Japanese company Softbank Corp. The value is a sign of how much hope and expectation is…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Europe’s largest operator by revenues, is taking some decisive steps to keep pole position for the longer term: today it has opened a new R&D Center, Vodafone Xone, to try to seek out the best and brightest innovations in wireless technology and services. Yet despite Vodafone’s roots…

Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 in the UK will be no different… Before those operators have even applied for clearance from the regulators, the UK’s fourth-biggest operator, Hutchison…

Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer—France’s answer to Spotify—to launch an exclusive mobile music service that will effectively be offered “free” to those who sign up for Orange’s premium, two-year service plans.

Baidu’s determination to get a piece of the action in China’s fast-growing mobile market has yielded plans for an app store and mobile platform of its own, Baidu Yi, based on Android; and now we are getting more details on the second part of the equation: the devices.

Blyk, the once-groundbreaking mobile ad company that offered young users free mobile services in exchange for getting ads on their devices, has appointed advertising veteran Eric Kip as its new CEO. He replaces Pekka Ala-Pietilä, a co-founder of the company and a former president of Nokia (NYSE: NOK), who will…

When Facebook announced that it would be folding Places check-ins into status updates, some took it as a sign that the company was bowing to Foursquare as the dominant “check-in” service in mobile. But one app developer tells us that based on the activity on his apps, this is far…

Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data networks, but to have a hand in how people are using them to consume goods and services…

It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world and started to leverage some of the power it’s already established through one of its most viral products, BlackBerry Messenger.

One of the promising selling points of Android, for carriers, was that, unlike Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), they would have more potential to get involved in the apps ecosystem—namely in areas billing, where they could make a cut on purchases and keep some “ownership” of their users. In reality, that has…

The rise of smartphones has meant a big boost in data use and data revenues, but in many cases that is still not offsetting declines for mobile operators in other areas, a trend illustrated by Vodafone’s quarterly results, issued today.

All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere—the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile—has resigned and is getting replaced by Olaf Swantee, a longtime France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) operative.

Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet services to its customers, in the hopes of finally kick-starting a service that has been long on discussion but painfully short on execution up to…