Mark Loughran, general manager of Nokia UK and Ireland, is leaving the company on 1st October. He'll be replaced by Sami Lehtinen, Nokia's current head of retail.
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Microsoft says it's expanding Zune, its digital entertainment service, into more than 20 countries – including the UK. Zune's music and video services will be available on Windows-based PCs, on Windows Phone 7 handsets and on the Xbox gaming console later this year.
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The O2 More advertising service, which sends marketing messages to O2 UK subscribers, now has more than a million customers. O2 More launched in December 2009, less than a year ago. Customers who opt-in receive SMS and MMS messages from O2 More clients, including Adidas, Cadbury and NatWest.
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Facebook Places, the location-sharing service that potentially threatens stand-alone services such as Foursquare, is now available in the UK. It launched in the USA last month.
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The mobile phone market in Western Europe grew just 1.5% year-on-year to 43.3 million units in the second quarter of 2010, with smartphone growth offsetting a fall in the sale of traditional handsets. International Data Corporation's Mobile Phone Tracker says smartphone shipments were up 60% on Q2 2009 to 14.6 million units, while traditional phone sales fell 14% to 28.7 million units. That means 34% of all devices shipped were smartphones, up from 28% in the previous quarter.
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