Community-based free traffic and navigation service Waze has picked up an additional $30 million in funding.

Waze says the money will be used to launch its traffic-reporting platform in China and to support its user base of more than 7 million drivers worldwide.

Vodafone has announced that its Vodafone 360 service will close on 31st December 2011.

Customers are being directed to vodafone.co.uk/360close for instructions on how to backup their data.

A new eBook and application for iPhones is allowing readers to ‘turn the page’ without touching their mobile phone.

The app contains recipes by the well-known chefs and cooks in the Ebury Publishing My Kitchen Table series. Because users may well have food on their hands during preparation, the app takes advantage of the front-facing camera on newer iPhone and iPod Touch devices, allowing them to simply wave their hand over the screen to move to the next page.

Apple says it’s sold over four million units of the new iPhone 4S within three days of its launch on 14th October.

In addition, more than 25 million customers are now using iOS 5, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, and more than 20 million people have signed up for the free iCloud storage service.

Telefonica UK and Chargemaster plc have announced a partnership that’ll see O2 SIM cards used in the machine-to-machine technology connecting Chargemaster’s UK-wide network of electric vehicle charging points.

Chargemaster recently announced a national charging network called POLAR. It’s the UK’s largest private sector-funded network, with around 4,000 electric vehicle charging bays due to be installed in towns and cities across the UK by the end of 2012.