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Yesterday I walked into a tree branch and hit my head - hard. So hard in fact I could see the birds flying around my head like on a TV cartoon. After I had recovered enough to stand up again I promptly walked straight back into the same branch. What a prat! Thankfully I don’t get too many days like that, although today I went through the same pain but with O2.

The UK mobile operator is offering existing iPhone customers the opportunity to upgrade, free of charge. Can’t say fairer than that can you. So having duly pre-registered a couple of weeks ago I received a text from them at 8.20am this morning - upgrade online now and get your new iPhone 3G by courier on the 11th. [Read more]

Tags: Apple, O2

In a first round of financing, PONTIS Venture Partners, a venture capital company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, as well as a group of business angels are participating with a EUR 2.3 million investment in Xendex, one of Europe’s leading developers for mobile games. The former founders of 3United mobile solutions PLC, an Austrian company that was bought for EUR 55 million in early 2006 by global market leader Verisign, are among the business angels. Xendex also has offices in London and Krakow and has generated sales growth of 80% in the last year and now has over 70 channel partners, including T-Mobile, Orange and O2.

Tags: 3United Mobile Solutions PLC, O2, Orange, PONTIS Venture Partners, T-Mobile, Verisign, Xendex

There are certain brand names synonymous with excellence in the mobile phone industry: Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, O2, Chicago Rush, .. wait a minute … Chicago Rush? Who? Never heard of them! Well Chicago Rush are just one of the new mobile phone service ‘operators’ that have sprung up on Sonopia.com, the branded mobile community.

With Sonopia, any person, organization, club or cause can offer their own branded mobile service and make money doing it!

• Offer customized phones and competitive calling plans
• Provide exclusive content right on the phone
• Earn $50 for every mobile subscriber you sign-up
• Get a percentage of your subscribers’ monthly cell phone payment - 5% of your users’ bills.
• All on the nation’s leading wireless network

And it is free!

 www.sonopia.com

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Tags: Cardinal Venture Capital, Chicago Rush, ComVentures, Danir, Ericsson, Macromedia, Microsoft, Nokia, O2, Sevin Rosen Funds, Sonopia, Symbian, Vodafone

The mobile phone company O2 is reported to be planning to launch a pay-TV offering in the UK from 2008.

O2, owned by Spanish telecoms company Telefónica, already has a broadband offering in the UK after acquiring Be Broadband. According to UK media reports it wants to add a TV service.

It is thought it will trial the service, ahead of a full roll out, if successful, by end 2008. O2 already runs a similar service, O2TV, in the Czech Republic, offering 55 channels and video on demand content from Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Disney, Paramount and HBO. It also holds the rights for the Czech national ice hockey league.

Tags: Disney, HBO, O2, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Telefónica, Warner Bros