Music discovery service Shazam has announced that it’s exceeded a quarter of a billion users worldwide.

Last month the company revealed that its service had been used to identify over 5 billion songs, TV shows and ads since launching.

Mark Bridge writes:

I wasn’t supposed to be at this year’s AMEE 2012 conference in Lyon. AMEE is the Association for Medical Education in Europe, which - as you can probably guess - has very little direct connection with the mobile phone industry. However, my wife was going because she works in medical education. Me?  I fancied a trip to France.

Mark Bridge visits the AMEE 2012 conference to discover how mobile devices and mobile applications are being used in medical education.

This report covers everything from social networking to specialist teaching apps for medical students.

Juniper Research has forecast that the amount of mobile messaging traffic worldwide will reach 28.2 trillion messages per year by 2017, nearly double the 14.7 trillion messages expected to be sent this year.

It says most of this growth will come from instant messaging (IM), which will account for over a quarter of all mobile messages in five years’ time.

Technology business Huawei says it’ll invest £650 million in its UK operations and will spend another £650 million in procurement over the next five years. The company, which already employs over 800 people in the UK, now plans to increase its workforce to over 1,500 staff by 2017.

Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, announced the plans after a meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Lord Green, the Minister of State for Business.