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• Royal Mail going mobile

  The UK Royal Mail is planning to extend the use of mobile devices in its workforce.

• ARM to show off Android platform next week at trade show

  ARM will demonstrate Google's Android on an early prototype device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of several demonstrations of the mobile platform that will occur at the conference, Google said on Thursday.

• Facebook links up with Vodafone on mobile platform

  Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.

• Study: Google Android faces big problems, tight deadline

  A new study says Google faces some big problems in making its Android handset software stack a success.

• Google touts 'Android,' its new open mobile platform

  Google and several other technology companies unveiled a new mobile platform called Android on Monday. The system is expected to yield an actual phone in the second half of 2008.

• Kiwis back voeveo into UK mobile content launch

  A mobile content company backed by New Zealand money has launched in the United Kingdom by announcing an international mobile content competion.

• Triple deal tipped to deliver third mobile operator to NZ

  NZ Communications, formerly operating as Econet, may be preparing to launch the global Virgin Mobile brand in New Zealand.

• Express Couriers on track to roll out 1,000 mobile devices

  Express Couriers is rolling out mobile devices to around 1,000 couriers nationwide.

• Three of the best in mobile, wireless and telco

  As it happens, the finalists in the Mobile, Wireless and Telecommunications Solutions category of the Computerworld Excellence Awards fall neatly into each niche: Kiwibank, and its Mobile Banking; Canning and Associates Limited, with its WIZWireless rural/remote ISP solution; and Spinning Planet, with its global media convergence telephony and internet access implementation.

• ‘One hand test’ key to wireless applications: analyst

  We already have a wealth of digital content available to us, so the next few years will be dominated by the battle for easy access to it, says industry analyst Andy Seybold.

• Verizon signs US$6B deal with Alcatel-Lucent

  Verizon Wireless has announced a three-year deal with Alcatel-Lucent for ongoing network expansion valued at US$6 billion.

• When crisis strikes: why staying in touch is vital

  On the morning of July 7, 2005, Kenneth McCrae left his hotel in central London and headed for Baker Street Underground station. It was a warm day and he remembers looking longingly across the street at the green grass and trees in Regent’s Park before heading down to catch his train. McCrae boarded at 8.42 am along with the millions who jam the city’s famous subway system each day. On a whim, he decided to take the Metropolitan line instead of the Circle line. It turned out to be a good choice. At 8.50, a series of powerful bombs exploded underground, and one of those seriously damaged a train on the Circle line, just two trains ahead of McCrae. Above ground, another blast would rip apart a bus in Tavistock Square nearly an hour later.

• Security vendor detects aggressive mobile worm variant

  Mobile phone malware writers are up to no good again. A security vendor has detected a new variant of an aggressive Russian mobile worm that uses some alarming new tricks.

• Survey warns of IT managers ignoring mobile media risk

  Two-thirds of IT professionals who answered a survey on mobile security use non-encrypted removable media at work, despite being aware of the associated dangers.

• AUT pulls in the texting generation with StudyTXT

  Auckland University of Technology’s first-in-the-world mobile study-support service has proved so successful it is already almost self-funding.