Yahoo's mobile search now available to all   20 Mar 2007 20:12 GMT
Yahoo opened up its mobile oneSearch offering to anyone with a phone who can access the Internet. The service, which aims to offer more than a simple list of search results, was previously available as part of Yahoo Go for Mobile, a mobile phone-optimized content offering that is compatible with only certain handsets.
Source: InfoWorld

Belgium eyes world first with text message payments (AFP)   20 Mar 2007 19:45 GMT

AFP - Belgium's nearly 10 million mobile phone users could soon use text messages to pay for everything from a taxi ride to a pizza in what organisers of the new system describe as a "world first."

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Yahoo's mobile search now available to all (InfoWorld)   20 Mar 2007 19:13 GMT
InfoWorld - Yahoo opened up its mobile oneSearch offering to anyone with a phone who can access the Internet. The service, which aims to offer more than a simple list of search results, was previously available as part of Yahoo Go for Mobile, a mobile phone-optimized content offering that is compatible with only certain handsets.
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EU probes SFR's bid for Tele2 unit (AP)   20 Mar 2007 18:21 GMT
AP - EU regulators said Tuesday they would investigate in detail plans by French mobile phone operator SFR to buy Tele2 AB's French fixed-line telephone and broadband unit, saying they believed the deal could shrink competition in the French pay-TV sector.
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Belgians to start paying with cell phones (Reuters)   20 Mar 2007 17:49 GMT
Reuters - Belgians will be able to use their cell phones as debit cards within a few months, Belgian cell phone operators and Banksys, a Belgian firm specialized in electronic payments, said on Tuesday.
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RIM chief: Wireless security must be top priority   20 Mar 2007 17:12 GMT
Wireless security must be the top priority for providers doing business with the U.S. government, Research In Motion's (RIM's) president and co-CEO said Tuesday.
Source: InfoWorld

Mobile search company launches ad network   20 Mar 2007 12:57 GMT
Seattle's Medio Systems hopes to win a piece of the promising mobile advertising market -- an emerging market that giants such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are also chasing -- by focusing on delivering advertisements in mobile search results.
Source: InfoWorld

BenQ chairman offers to resign over phone troubles   20 Mar 2007 12:44 GMT
The chairman of BenQ Corp. offered his resignation on Tuesday over losses caused by the company's inability to make its former German mobile phone subsidiary profitable. BenQ's board of directors refused to accept the offer, however, demanding that he remain in his role and turn the company around.
Source: InfoWorld

Teens targeted with cellphone marketing (USATODAY.com)   20 Mar 2007 12:23 GMT
USATODAY.com - Eager to connect with teen and twentysomething shoppers, retailers are focusing on the mobile devices that are never far from their hands - or ears. "They are the early adopters and the influencers," Roman Tsunder says of teens targeted by cellphone marketing campaigns from his company, Access 360 Media. "The youth markets will show adults how it's done."
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Yahoo jumps ahead of Google on mobile search   20 Mar 2007 12:18 GMT
Part of Yahoo Go mobile platform, OneSearch service said to deliver localized search results quickly and easily.
Source: ZDNet