Telecoms distributor Avenir Telecom has made further progress in customer retention, maintaining a steady churn rate on the O2 network of just 8%, a figure achieved in October 2009 and carried through into January 2010.

Preliminary data for TV viewing patterns for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver has revealed that mobile viewing has reached record highs for any Olympics.

IT and telecoms analyst ABI Research believes that the phoney war has ended in the battle to be the de facto standard for the next generation of wireless networks with WiMAX gaining traction over a slowly emerging LTE.

Intel and Nokia are merging their Moblin and Maemo software platforms, creating a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Orange is to become a key partner to Microsoft in Europe for the Windows Phone 7 Series, extending its long-term partnership to deliver a range of phones in 2010 with smarter design and software integration that are optimised for Orange customers.

Mobile telecoms distributor Avenir Telecom is preparing to make a series of big announcements this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

A partnership with Energizer, a major battery manufacturer, will be announced for the design, manufacture and distribution of a range of new mobile device chargers.

Vodafone has unwrapped its most affordable ultra low cost handsets to date, intended to give millions of people in emerging markets the opportunity to share in the benefits of mobile technology for the first time.

QuickPlay Media's now traditional quarterly survey of its mobile TV and video users has revealed increases in average number of downloads per user and average viewing time per stream.

Mobile entertainment services provider Rubberduck Media Lab has made its streaming mobile TV application available for download on Google's new Nexus One phone and the increasing number of Android-based handsets such as the Motorola droid.

Verizon Wireless and nPhase, a Verizon Wireless/Qualcomm Joint Venture, are forming a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the adoption of global machine-to-machine (M2M) deployments by simplifying the remote management and monitoring of devices spread across both European and US networks.