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Plenty of surprises at last night's Mobile News Awards

Last night's Mobile News Awards saw HTC win 'best manufacturer', bringing an end to the battle in previous years between LG and Samsung. The 'best large retailer' award for 2010 was based on mystery shopping results, which resulted in Orange picking up the award for the first time.

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Real-time satellite navigation uses GPS on a SIM card

Mobile location company Telmap has announced a partnership with BlueSky Positioning to put real-time search, mapping and navigation on mobile phones that don't have built-in GPS. Instead, it's using BlueSky Positioning’s A-GPS technology, which is embedded into a phone’s SIM card.

The result is a mapping and navigation solution for mid-range handsets that includes in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, multi-lingual turn-by-turn directions with street names and even traffic and speed camera information in some areas. Telmap’s solution also includes pedestrian navigation.

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HTC politely disagrees with Apple's legal action

In a polite but firm statement, HTC Corporation has responded to Apple's recent legal action. Peter Chou, HTC's CEO, said "HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible".

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Listen to this week's podcast for the UK mobile industry

This week's edition of The Fonecast covers Wayfinder's closure by Vodafone, NFC phones for mobile payments, Digital Britain delays and an interview with Jim Bryan, co-founder and managing director of Retrieva Limited, whose company produces a tracking and anti-theft dog collar that combines GPS, GSM and RFID technologies.

As usual, you can listen to this week's programme on our website...

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Podcast - 17th March 2010

This week's podcast covers Wayfinder's closure, NFC mobile phones, Digital Britain delays... and an interview with Jim Bryan, co-founder and managing director of Retrieva Limited, whose company produces a tracking and anti-theft dog collar that combines GPS, GSM and RFID technologies.

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