It’s been another big news week for The Fonecast. In today’s podcast we talk about the recent ‘BlackBerry crumble’ before discussing legal challenges to Android, looking at mobile advertising and thoroughly washing our hands before making any phone calls!

You can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by subscribing to our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.

Google has announced financial results for the most-recent financial quarter, which ended on 30th September 2011.

Revenue reached $9.72 billion (£6.14 billion), an increase of 33% year-on-year. The company also said that 40 million people had registered with the Google+ social networking service.

Branding consultancy Interbrand has released the 12th version of its Best Global Brands report. Once again, Coca-Cola is rated as the world’s most-valuable brand at $71,861 million (around £46.5 billion).

In fact, the top seven brands remain in the same places as they did in 2010; after Coca-Cola comes IBM, then Microsoft, Google, GE, McDonald’s and Intel.

Google has launched a new interactive resource for companies and individuals that need information about mobile consumers.

Called Our Mobile Planet, it can provide insights into how customers are using their mobile devices and how businesses are engaging those consumers via mobile.

Mark Bridge writes:

Welcome to a summary of last week’s mobile industry news from TheFonecast.com.

The biggest mobile-flavoured story from the past seven days was probably HP’s replacement of its president and CEO. Léo Apotheker is out after less than a year, replaced by former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. It’s not likely to affect the company’s plans for webOS tablets and phones… but it’ll be interesting to see what Ms Whitman does next.