Vodafone has extended its partnership with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 racing team; a relationship that began three years ago.

The existing sponsorship deal will now run until the end of the 2013 Formula 1 championship calendar, with Vodafone expanding from being 'mobile partner' to 'total communications partner' of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes.

iSuppli has just revealed its preliminary hardware analysis of the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tablet.

The so-called 'teardown' shows the Galaxy Tab having a very similar design to the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. Both have a Samsung-branded Hummingbird 1GHz ARM-based processor and an Infineon baseband processor.

IMImobile, one of India's largest and fastest-growing mobile technology companies, has acquired UK-based mobile content and services provider WINplc. The resulting company will have a global workforce of over 600 people. Former WIN CEO Graham Rivers will become an Executive Director of IMImobile.

TomTom and HTC have done a deal that'll put navigation and location solutions on HTC smartphones. The new HTC Locations mapping application – preinstalled on the new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z smartphones, with other devices expected to be added in the future – will come preloaded with TomTom’s maps. The option of turn-by-turn navigation can be purchased through HTC Locations or on HTCSense.com

The International Telecommunication Union, which looks after information and communication technology issues for the United Nations, has calculated that 90% of the world population has access to mobile networks. It's one of the figures from the agency's The World in 2010 report.