Everything Everywhere, which runs the Orange and T-Mobile UK networks, has released outline results for the first quarter of 2011. It says mobile service revenue was up 1.6% year-on-year, although overall turnover was down 1.7%. (Both figures exclude the effects of regulation).
Orange and T-Mobile now have 27.7 million customers between them.
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Westminster Abbey will have mobile phone signal blockers installed for the Royal Wedding, according to a report on the Yahoo! Shine web site.
It says the decision has been approved by the police, with signal jammers switched on throughout the wedding.
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Mobile payments company Square, which offers a plug-in card reader that enables iPhone and Android users to accept credit card payments, has received a "strategic investment" from Visa.
Square, currently only available in the USA, recently announced that it was processing more than a million dollars per day.
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The Nielsen Company has revealed recent research about mobile applications in the USA.
Its survey of mobile app downloaders - people who've downloaded an app in the past 30 days - shows that 74% of these people either have an Android device or an Apple iPhone.
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Canadian cloud-based calendar service Tungle has been acquired by Research In Motion.
The entire team will be joining RIM to work on the BlackBerry platform.
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