—Qwest Begins Selling Wireless Services Under Verizon Wireless Brand: Qwest has begun offering Verizon Wireless services to all of its new residential and business customers in its service area. Under the new five-year agreement that came after Qwest dropped its MVNO business arrangement with Sprint (NYSE: S), Qwest can sell its customers a suite of products and services from Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ). Current Qwest Wireless customers will soon be notified of the change, the company said, but won’t be required to do anything for some time to come. When those customers are eventually required to switch to Verizon Wireless, Qwest will waive contract termination fees and provide special offers. Billing systems between both companies are expected to be integrated this fall. (Release.)

—W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices: A new group of best practices for the mobile web has been released by W3C, short for the World Wide Web Consortium. The guidelines are aimed at helping content creators develop content that works on the widest array of mobile devices possible. Other issues such as user experience, data input and page scrolling are tackled in the document as well. The organization also launched a mobile OK checker that works alongside its validator.

—Criss Angel Mindfreak Adds Text-In Component To Latest Stunt: A&E has added a text-in component to the latest special from Criss Angel Mindreak that airs tonight. For his latest stunt, Angel will be shackled inside a six-story former hotel in Florida where he’ll attempt to escape before the building is imploded. Viewers will be able to send supportive text messages to him during the event, which will appear at AETV.com and a JumboTron located at the site. The network’s also offering a subscription to a text blog that will send live updates every 10 minutes from the event to their mobile phones.

—Telegent Systems Gets Mobile TV Chipset Into ZTE Devices: Telegent Systems inked a deal with ZTE to be the exclusive supplier of free-to-air mobile TV chipset features for two years. Telegent’s chipsets enable consumers to receive local broadcast channels that they’re accustomed to watching at home. Telegent currently has chipsets in use on more than 80 handsets in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and Africa, with a significant amount of traction coming from emerging markets in China and Brazil, according to the company. (Release.)