UK-based digital agency Vexed Digital has acquired mobile specialist Future Platforms.

Future Platforms was founded in 2000 by Tom Hume, while Vexed Digital was formed in 2006 by the founders of the Good Technology agency (subsequently renamed ‘GT’ and now VML London).

Everything Everywhere is enabling UK customers on Orange and T-Mobile to use the 3G signal from either network.

It follows what the company called the ‘big switch-on’ last year, which allowed Orange and T-Mobile customers to to make calls and send texts using the other network.

Mark Bridge takes a look back at last week’s mobile industry headlines.

Rest in peace, Steve. The death of Apple co-founder Steven Paul Jobs following several years of illness has seen the kind of public grieving usually reserved for pop stars and princesses. There’s not much I can say that hasn’t already been said; it’s hard to argue with Tim Cook’s statement that “Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”

Anjana Pasricha of voanews.com writes:

India hopes that the launch of what is being called “the world’s cheapest tablet computer” will help tens of thousands of low-income students connect to the digital world.

The $45 device with a seven-inch color touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and two USB ports is meant to bridge the digital divide in a country where only three percent of the population has computers.

Fashion designer Jil Sander has created her own mobile phone, called simply the ‘Jil Sander Mobile’. It’s been built by LG and runs ‘Mango’ version 7.5 of the Windows Phone operating system.

The device will be available in the UK as well as in Austria, France, Italy and Germany.