—Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Android: Next up in Amazon’s increasing use of the Android platform is the free Amazon for Android app for the UK market. This is an extension of the iPhone app already available: in addition to being able to access all regular Amazon online shopping services, users can…

You’ve gotta hand it to Three: just when European operators (and other mobile operators worldwide) are jumping back into mobile data caps, the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator has come out with a zinger: a mobile plan that offers unlimited data, on top of generous allowances for voice calls and texts.…

Three, Orange and T-Mobile officially launched their subsidised iPad sales in the UK today. Three appears to be offering the best deal of all at this point, offering “three” times as much data (geddit?) for the same price as the other two. But do users need so much?

As Microsoft’s press conference gets under way this morning to promote the release of its Windows 7 operating system, T-Mobile USA is offering details of its forthcoming HTC HD7 device. As one of the first smartphones using the Windows Phone 7 OS, the device boasts rich mobile multimedia features with…

O2 UK is preparing to carry iPhone 4 - by ending unlimited data plans. The telco’s network has been pounded by data-hungry iPhone users over the last couple of years, for most of which it had iPhone exclusivity, and has suffered a reputational hit from occasional resulting outages. Now it’s…

—Timeses’ apps: As the papers’ new pay-for sites launched, so, too, did iPhone apps, with no fanfare, ME spotted, though there’s confusion out of The Times on whether they’re really new. The deal - £2 a week for a hideous digital replica, better plain-text stories and weird text-to-speech audio. —3UK’s…

—Vodafone/Foursquare: A European operator deal for the location-aware mobile social media app. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK customers can now “check-in” to Foursquare, through Vodafone’s live! portal, through the MyWeb sign-on, or by texting Foursquare to 97886. Normal data charges still apply to use the app, though. —FoneStarz/Disney: More content deals…

As expected, five UK-based mobile operators have started sharing data with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) and the GSMA in an attempt to eliminate two of the biggest problems facing the mobile content industry: lack of consistency and transparency in reporting mobile internet trends. In the first report released today, preliminary results…

Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa has offered to take Hutchison Telecommunications International private as the group’s largest shareholder. The move was expected given that the telecom company that has sold or spun off its most profitable operations in recent years. The super diverse Hutchinson Wampoa, which owns property, ports, retail and…

This is the least surprising carrier relationship Spotify will get (since 3’s owner Hutchison Whampoa is controlled by Spotify’s big private investor Li Ka-Ching), but will nevertheless serve to demonstrate the kind of bundling the music service wants to do… Spotify will be delivered through the 3 mobile carrier in…

—Yell.com iPhone: Yell Group has released a free iPhone app offering Yell.com’s local business and service search functions. The company recently signed a deal to put its search widget on Samsung phones. Release. —3 UK: The operator is to give UK customers mobile banking services via a tie-up with Monitise.…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is mulling over a bid for T-Mobile UK, a move that would catapult them to the lead of the British mobile phone market, one of the most competitive markets in Europe. The FT.com, citing “people familiar with the situation” said that Vodafone, the world’s largest carrier by…

GetJar, the independent mobile app store, has struck a deal with *Virgin Mobile* France, to provide the French carrier’s new mobile app store to launch on Wednesday with its entire selection of free applications, some 45,000 in total. The deal is the second for Getjar this month. Earlier in June,…

INQ Mobile, the cellphone maker behind the “Facebook Phone,” is hopping to tap into Twitter’s surging popularity by releasing a Twitter phone, in time for the lucrative holiday shopping season, Reuters reports. Like its Facebook phone, the Twitter phone would be a mass-market feature phone, and would cost carriers less…

Social networks are some of the most popular sites on the mobile web, and while its easy to access them with a smartphone, it gets a whole lot harder using a standard feature phone. According to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) M:Metrics, 15 percent of the 25 million US smartphone users access…

—EU’s telecoms reform delayed: The European Commission’s package of proposed telecoms reforms will now be delayed, thanks to a surprise vote by European parliamentarians who again refused to discard the so-called “three strikes” amendment that would force governments to get court permission before disconnecting illegal downloaders of copyrighted content. The…

—3 UK: UK Mobile operator 3 is launching its first brand advertising campaign in 18 months and is aiming its fire not just at would-be customers but the mobile industry at large. Under the tagline “changing mobile forever,” the campaign will attempt to publicize 3’s deepening relationship with Skype and…

3UK has deepened its relationship with Skype, with the telco rolling out free Skype calls in two stages: The first will start on May 1 when 3’s existing pay-as-you-go customers will not need to top up their credit to use Skype, and later 3 will sell SIM cards for £1.99…

—Sightless Touch Screen Dialling: A couple of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) engineers—T.V. Raman, who is blind, and Charles Chen, who is sighted—have developed software which makes the G1 more accessible to blind users by making the dialling pad relative to where the screen is first touch rather than fixed, reports NYT.…