—Best Buy Mobile selling more multimedia handsets: If you want to sell more feature-packed phones, it looks like the best way to do it is to hold a customer’s hand. Best Buy Mobile units are proving a hit in shifting high-end multimedia phones. Electronics retailer Best Buy said the “store-within-store” units had seen a ten-fold increase in the number of higher end and multimedia handsets sold compared with last year, thanks to its intense focus on customer service. The nearly 2-year old joint venture with UK’s mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse sells handsets from a variety of makers and carriers and helps customers figure out which features they want and how to use them before they leave the store. For example, they will set up a customer’s email and data transfer and ensure it works. The retailer also said it had completed its roll out of Best Buy Mobile throughout its 965 US stores three months ahead of time (release).

—Google Translate on iPhone: Just in time for the Olympics. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) engineers have created an iPhone interface for Google Translate, according to Google’s Mobile Blog. For those without a flat rate data plan, Google estimates that you can get between 200 and 400 translations in 1MB of data download. Google also said today that it has launched a new component to its mobile search tool that will deliver sport results, country medal counts and even schedules for the Olympics. The company developed a mobile website (http://www.google.com/m/summergames) where users can browse through all the events planned for the summer games.

—ABCNews.com mobile page views up: ABCNews.com said that according to its own measurements, its mobile site m.abcnews.com increased page views 77 percent versus the same time last year (release).

—Mippin creates Olympics channel: Mobile media service Mippin has created a channel dedicated to the Olympics. So far it has some 30 sites categorized from all over the world, including the BBC, CNN, AOL (NYSE: TWX), Reuters, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Google, and NBC, with plans to add more.

—GoTV Networks host wins ‘Last Comic Standing’: Iliza Shlesinger, a host for GoTV Networks, won NBC’s Last Comic Standing last night. “Everyone here at GoTV Networks is proud of Iliza and we wish her continued success as she enjoys the year as the Last Comic Standing,” said Daniel Tibbetts, EVP and studio chief at GoTV. “We’ve seen her talent come through on Rock On Altitude’s acclaimed show, Sex, Liza And Videotape, so she already had our vote!”