O2 has announced a sponsorship deal with music identification service Shazam that'll deliver targeted ads for the O2 Priority Tickets service. Customers who have tagged songs through Shazam’s iPhone application will be shown relevant ads for O2 Priority pre-sales based on the music they're interested in.

O2 Priority Tickets gives O2 customers the ability to purchase tickets for gigs at The O2 and O2 Academy venues up to 48 hours before they go on general sale.

LG Electronics says it's developed its newest touch-screen phone – the LG GD880, also known as the LG Mini – because consumers were unhappy with touch-screen phones that were too bulky, too clunky and too expensive. Those were the words of Dr Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG's Mobile business.

The LG Mini is currently the smallest and slimmest 3.2-inch full touch-screen phone on the market. It includes a social network aggregator, which is rapidly becoming a favourite feature for manufacturers, and has a 5-megapixel camera.

Over a billion minutes of Skype calls have been made on the UK's 3 mobile network since the service was introduced. 3 originally launched Skype on its UK network in October 2007, making it free for all customers in May 2009. And each day, around three million minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calls are made using mobile phones on the 3 network.

In the kind of coincidence reserved for PR events, the call including the billionth minute was made by Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain, when talking to the CEO of medical aid charity Merlin. 3 recently donated five Skypephones to Merlin so that UK-based staff could stay in touch with colleagues on the ground in Haiti.