Hutchison Whampoa has reported that its profits for the first half of 2010 were up 12% year-on-year to HK$6.45 billion (around £521 million). Losses in the 3 Group, which runs a number of mobile networks including Three UK, were down 82% to HK$998 million. Hutchison Whampoa now has 27.8 million 3G mobile customers worldwide – a 6% annual rise – including over 5 million mobile broadband users.
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News Corp., the media company run by Rupert Murdoch, is reported to be considering the sale of its Fox Mobile Group businesses. Fox Mobile includes Jamster, which offers ringtones and other mobile content via the Jamba brand. News Corp took control of Jamster in 2006 and bought it in 2008.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Welcome to TheFonecast.com for this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, an itinerant online publication that contains the best mobile-focussed writing from the previous seven days.
The summer holidays may have reduced the quantity of online commentary for Carnival #234… but the quality remains unaffected.
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A website called jailbreakme.com that lets iPhone and iPad users ‘jailbreak’ their devices also introduces the opportunity for security risks, according to F-Secure.com.
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Good Technology, which provides secure mobile access to information for businesses, has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer. King R Lee III, who was already one of the company directors, has been named president and CEO with immediate effect. He replaces Brian Bogosian, who'd been with Good Technology for a decade.
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