UK mobile voice-to-SMS provider Spinvox recently won business with Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) in Latin America. It’s easily its biggest carrier deal so far. Any more like that, though, the company may need new growth finance… “You’ve got to remember that if I get another two or three deals like this—which…

Italy’s diverse social network, mobile and community operator Dada has resumed its journey on the M&A trail, buying 51 percent of Milan Stock Exchange-listed casual web games publisher Fueps for €1.36 million.

A Chinese company, which owns the trademark “i-phone,” may make it difficult for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell a similarly spelled product in the same market, reports IDG News Service. Apple has said it hopes to enter the very large market within the next year, and is rumored to be…

Counterfeiters have had two years to polish their iPhone look-a-likes, and today, are nearly impossible to identify on the outside, reports CultOfMac.com, which evaluated a video shot by MacMedics and clones being sold on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY). The knock-offs, which typically produced in China, are thin, boast a large display…

It will now be cheaper to make cellphone calls, send a text message or surf the web when traveling in Europe. The new rates, which the European Parliament formally adopted in March after months of debate, will go into effect tomorrow, July 1. Reuters said it will now be up…

The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, a success if you believe the buzz around the device and some of the numbers analysts have come up with, is looking to expand internationally, and, as a part of that, Germany, Europe’s biggest book market, is believed to be among the first of those…

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…

Lines started forming in at least Japan and Australia as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) kicked off its second worldwide release of the iPhone 3G S today, Bloomberg reports. The phone also went on sale in Austria, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, and is now on sale in 14 countries—eight others debuted…

Israeli smartphone ad network Toda!Cell has raised $1 million in its first round of funding led by Israeli VC AfterDox which describes itself as a group of angel Investors, made up of present and former execs from Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the mobile technology provider.

France Telecom’s UK carrier Orange, the country’s third largest, is cutting 370 jobs, the FT.com reports. A hundred of the lay offs will come in the next three months, while the remaining 270 jobs will be cut by not filling positions. Orange UK has been struggling to regain its position…

Swedish mobile payment and security solutions provider Accumulate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sweden’s Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, ArcticStartup reports. (The Sixth AP fund, as it’s also known, is a Swedish state fund for long-term risk capital, which invests in small and medium-sized growth companies.)

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has released its third Android phone, the HTC Hero, which has been picked up by France Telecom’s UK carrier Orange, as the first Android device in its portfolio of phones, the companies said today.

The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting media - but will eschew “bleeding-edge” mobile content for mass appeal. Alex Balfour, new media head for the Games’ organising committee told Mobile Entertainment Market ‘09 Vancouver 2010 will trial Samsung’s…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens, the joint venture between German electronics giant Siemens, and Finnish handset maker Nokia, has sold technology to Iran Telecom that allows the monitoring of fixed line and mobile phone calls. The story was first reported in the WSJ and subsequently picked up by a number of…

China’s mobile content giant KongZhong is acquiring Simlife International, a leading Chinese mobile game developer, the company said in a statement today. KongZong has agreed to pay $3 million in cash to the shareholders of Simlife. An additional payment of $1.25 million in cash and 6 million of the company’s…

Trouble for Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) in South Korea. The country’s competition regulator has charged the chip maker with unfair licensing terms, as well as charges that the San Diego-based company acknowledged earlier, according to Reuters, citing an unnamed source.

Rumors have been rampant over the fate of struggling T-Mobile UK, with its parent company Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) reportedly shopping the unit around and entertaining offers from carriers, including France Telecom’s Orange. However, a France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) spokesperson said it did not make an offer and now Deutsche…

—Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) claim wireless market is competitive: The two largest U.S. wireless carriers responded to U.S. lawmakers, who are concerned that the four largest cell phone companies doubled their text message rates from 10 cents in 2006 to 20 cents in 2008. Verizon and AT&T…

The largest Taiwanese Telecommunications Company Chunghwa Telecom has signed an agreement with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to integrate the company’s oneSearch service into the carrier’s portal, according to Lin Jen-Hon (pictured, left), a VP of Chunghwa Telecom’s mobile business group. The Chunghwa Telecom executive told Dow Jones Newswires: “This is a…