ExclusiveUK mobile parking provider RingGo acquires US rival News Mark - December 1, 2010 RingGo, which is used for around three-quarters of all the UK’s pay-by-phone parking, has acquired US-based iControl Mobile. It’ll trade under the iControl name for a short while before moving to the RingGo brand.
ExclusiveResearch says most smartphone owners show no loyalty to their chosen operating system News Mark - December 1, 2010 New international research from GfK shows that most smartphone owners are currently ‘keeping their options open’ when thinking about their next smartphone purchase.
ExclusiveLG switching to eco-magnesium in all mobile phones by 2012 News Mark - December 1, 2010 LG Electronics says it’ll replace all conventional magnesium inside its mobile phones with ‘eco-magnesium’ by 2012.
ExclusiveMotorola to split on 4th January 2011 News Mark - December 1, 2010 The long-awaited split of Motorola has finally been approved by the company’s board of directors. Motorola Mobility Holdings – the ‘mobile’ part of Motorola’s business – will separate from the rest of Motorola before the US stock market opens on 4th January 2011. The remaining part of Motorola will then change its name to Motorola Solutions.
ExclusiveWe have a week of mobile retail news as Christmas approaches News Mark - December 1, 2010 This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.