Computing giant Intel has acquired Basis Science, the company behind the Basis band.

The Basis band is a wearable fitness and health tracker that offers online analysis of these metrics.

Vodafone and UK-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have announced a global partnership that’ll see them using mobile health services to help patients with cardiovascular conditions.

The collaboration will work in partnership with healthcare professionals, who’ll enable patients to use mobile and internet-based mHealth services during their treatment.

Dr Kevin Curran, Reader in Computer Science at the University of Ulster, joined us during Mobile World Congress to offer his well-informed opinion about trends in mobile technology.

We talked about a wide range of topics, including battery life, disposable tablets, wearables, m-health, 4G fragmentation, connected furniture, M2M security, the rise of video and the IEEE.

We start this week's report with two new smartphones: a flagship Android device from LG and a dual-boot handset from Geeksphone.

We also talk about the health effects of mobile phones, a new mobile loyalty app, wireless charging, machine-to-machine connections, the purchase of Viber and a recent acquisition by Google.

The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR), which ran in the UK for 11 years until 2012, has published a final summary of its research projects.

The programme was set up in 2001 following what became known as the ‘Stewart Report’ from the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones.

A total of 31 research projects have now been completed as part of the MTHR Programme. They’ve been published in peer-reviewed journals and are also on the MTHR web site.