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ExclusiveThis week's podcast: roaming contracts, mobile payments, app downloads and much more

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This week's edition of The Fonecast starts with a look at the EC's plans for European roaming charges. We then talk about payments and patents, apps and advertising... before finishing with a story about a kettle that'll charge your phone.

As always, you can download this week’s show from iTunes or you can listen to the podcast by using the audio player on our website. There's an MP3 podcast RSS feed as well.

ExclusivePodcast - 13th July 2011

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We're talking about the EC's new roaming proposition, eBay's latest mobile payment purchase, Three's partnership with Ovi and all the other top mobile industry news stories in this week's podcast.

ExclusiveEA buys mobile game company PopCap

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Electronic Arts (EA) has announced an agreement to acquire PopCap Games, a US-based company that produces games for mobile phones, tablets, PCs and social network sites.

PopCap has produced a number of popular titles including Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Zuma.

ExclusiveOver half of Europe is expected to have smart meters by 2016

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A new research report from Berg Insight says the number of smart electricity meters in Europe will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19.4% for the next five years to reach 130.5 million in 2016. That means 52% of European houses will have smart meters.

By this time, over €3 billion per year is expected to be spent on smart metering technology.

ExclusiveGetJar tells Apple it won't be bullied

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Apple's lawyers have sent independent application store GetJar a 'cease and desist' notice that asks GetJar to stop using the term "app store". There's currently a similar legal challenge between Amazon and Apple.

GetJar Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Mork has responded with a blog post that said he's surprised and disappointed with Apple's C&D notice.

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