Three UK has signed an agreement with Macheen Inc, a US-based company that simplifies the process when device manufacturers want to include 3G connectivity ‘out of the box’.

Manufacturing partners haven’t been announced but could include producers of laptops, tablets, sat-nav devices and portable gaming consoles.

Everything Everywhere, which runs Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, says it’s accelerating the integration of its two mobile networks and will upgrade its network technology.

These plans, which will see over £1.5 billion spent during the next three years, also involve preparations for the rollout of 4G mobile technology.

The latest research from Strategy Analytics predicts that sales of mobile phones able to handle HTML5 - the latest version of the language used to construct web sites - will grow by 365% between 2011 and 2016.

In fact, worldwide HTML5 phone sales are expected to increase from 336 million units this year to 1 billion units in 2013.

Mark Bridge writes:

By now you already know the basics. More and more people have smartphones - and they’re becoming an essential companion. They’re taking over from digital cameras, they’re taking over from portable gaming consoles, they’re taking over from music players… and now they’re taking over from Christmas cards. Yes, Christmas cards.

The US Federal Court has granted a temporary restraining order against Research in Motion that prevents RIM from referring to its new BlackBerry operating system as ‘BBX’. BBx is a trademark of software company Basis International.

The order stops BBX from being promoted at RIM’s BlackBerry developer conference in Singapore this week.