Motorola has recently acquired software developer 280 North, although neither organisation appears to be saying much at the moment. 280 North describes itself as “dedicated to advancing the state of the art on the web”; it’s created a browser-based presentation application called 280 Slides and has also released its app-building framework Cappuccino as an open source project.
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Cellmania, which described itself as “the leading provider of wireless search, provisioning and billing solutions to wireless operators”, has been bought by Research In Motion.
It appears likely that Cellmania’s expertise will be used for BlackBerry App World, the RIM application store.
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Google’s Gmail email service already includes instant messaging along with voice and video chat. The company has now added conventional phone calls to the Gmail interface. This option is currently only available within the USA, although the company says its working on making this available more broadly. A special voice and video plug-in needs to be installed; it’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux computers.
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In this week's edition of The Fonecast we take our regular look at mobile industry news from the last seven days, including two Ofcom stories, two Intel stories, two network problems, three sets of financial results and nine arrests.
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Iain, James and Mark take their regular look at the UK's top mobile industry news stories. This week, Intel, Nokia, Ofcom, ZTE, Apple, Facebook and the City of London police are some of the organisations making the headlines.
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