Iain, James and Mark discuss the week's news - including recent criticism of Orange UK and Carrier IQ, an MVNO that prints customised phones, disappointing BlackBerry PlayBook sales, a couple of mobile payment deals and an interesting mobile app from Yahoo.
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Yahoo! has added a new mobile communications product to its portfolio.
It’s called Hub and is available as a beta Android app to users with a US-based SIM card. Plans for availability outside the USA haven’t been confirmed.
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Mark Bridge writes:
I’m reminded of a sketch from BBC TV’s ‘The Young Ones’ in 1982. The four horsemen of the apocalypse are waiting around.
“What’s new?”, asks Pestilence. “Microchip technology”, replies one of the others. “That’s quite a new thing, isn’t it?”
Quite new. It’s probably the best description for much of last week’s mobile industry news.
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Livestand, the long-awaited ‘digital newsstand’ that was announced by Yahoo! in February, has finally launched on the Apple iPad.
It offers a combination of third-party content, social media information and Yahoo! services in an application that becomes more personalised as it’s used.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Welcome to this week's news summary from The Fonecast. Sorry it's late but I have a reasonably good excuse. On Friday I was in central London to meet Hans Eriksson of Bambuser. He was about to stream his life online for 24 hours, relying on social networking to find him off-beat attractions. You'll find our conversation on TheFonecast.com – and the results are at bambuserchallenge.tumblr.com
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