Carphone Warehouse makes up with Vodafone
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At least for existing customers Just a couple of months after Vodafone announced that Phones4U would get the exclusive right to sell its connections it has back-peddled and will allow CW to sell contract renewals and pre-pay connections.â¦
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Virtualises storage for its utility data centre Carphone Warehouse has tapped storage newbie 3PAR for 24TB of virtualised disk storage.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone Group is counting on the MySpace.com social networking site to drive its U.K. customers to use their mobile phones for more than just talking. The two companies have struck a deal the to distribute software for updating a MySpace user profile from a mobile phone, the companies announced on Wednesday. The agreement is the first MySpace, which is owned by News Corp., has reached with a European carrier, a MySpace spokesman said. It calls for Vodafone to ship an application on new mobile phones it sells that will allow MySpace users to e-mail, blog, manage their community of friends and post comments to other users' profiles. The application, which will also be available for download, will be launched before the end of the year for U.K. users, the companies said. Pricing for use of the application has not been set, a Vodafone spokesman said. The agreement could help Vodafone nudgeÂ slow overall revenue growth in Europe, by drawing on the MySpace's popularity to boost use of mobile data services. Vodafone saw growth in mobile data services revenue accelerate in the fourth quarter, but the total still lagged far behind revenue from voice services. MySpace counted 90 million unique visitors worldwide in December, the spokesman said. Vodafone has about 16.9 million customers in the U.K. MySpace launched a similar dealÂ in the U.S. in December with Cingular Wireless. Cingular subscribers can download a Java application that lets them manipulate MySpace for $2.99 per month plus standard use charges.
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Shares in British mobile phone group Vodafone jumped Thursday to the highest level for about five and a half years on speculation linking it to a European distribution deal for Apple&#39;s iPhone.
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone   unveiled plans to return an extra 3 billion pounds (&#36;5.6  billion) to investors and hiked its dividends on Tuesday,  spicing a well-flagged new strategy to cut costs and embrace  new technology.
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Ziff Davis - Vodafone signs a global purchasing agreement with Sun that gives Vodafone consistent terms for Sun's hardware, software and services product line.
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Britain's Carphone Warehouse has  started sales of a black fashion phone model from the world's  top cellphone maker Nokia  which has not yet been  unveiled by the Finnish company.
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Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer and telecommunications group, has joined a growing band of consumer companies that missed sales targets over Christmas.
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Preparing itself for the eventual release of Apple's iPhone in the UK, Vodafone on Tuesday unveiled a new music store that allows the unlimited download of tracks to compatible phones.
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(InfoWorld) - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube. The announcement follows others this week from Vodafone withÂ MySpace.comÂ and eBay. The deals point to a growing interest from online content providers to offer their services to mobile customers as well as continued efforts by operators to drive usage of their wireless data networks. The mobile YouTube service will launch initially in the U.K. where customers will be able to view select videos, forward links of videos and upload and search for videos. Vodafone plans to launch the service in other European markets as well. YouTube has a similar offering in the U.S. where customers of Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless can all upload videos from their phones. On Thursday, Vodafone said it will be the first to launch a new mobile service from eBay in Europe outside of the U.K. Vodafone Italy customers will be the first to be able to download a free application in order to search for and buy items on eBay. The application will come loaded on phones in the future and Vodafone expects to launch the service across its European markets later this year. EBay has experimented with different mobile offerings. In Germany, it launched a customized version of the Opera Mini browser that lets users buy, sell and track bids. EBay also allows any U.K. mobile user to bid for and buy items on their phones. Also this week, Vodafone announced that its customers, starting in the U.K., will be able to download an application to their phones that will allow them to edit their MySpace profiles, upload photos and blog entries and send and receive MySpace messages. It's the first mobile offering for MySpace in Europe, Vodafone said. All three services will be available within Vodafone Live, the operator's mobile portal.
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Carphone Warehouse today announced a 25% increase in the number of connections during its second quarter, with interim pre-tax profits expected to be at least Â£27m.
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Nokia said Wednesday that it had reached a deal with Vodafone that brings some of the latest and greatest mobile phones exclusively to the carrier.
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Well, it looks like things are getting a bit more interesting regarding the Sprint/Nextel deal. It seems that Vodafone, which owns 45% of Verizon Wireless in the US, is supporting a move by Verizon to potentially buy Sprint PCS.
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UK-based record company EMI has teamed up with British retailer Carphone Warehouse to sell Robbie Williams&#39; Greatest Hits album in memory-card format for cell phones and PDAs.
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Carphone Warehouse predicted a full year result ahead of market expectations on Thursday when the UK mobile phone retailer announced an 11.2 per cent increase in third-quarter like-for-like sales.
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The misinformation and confusion over whether or not the US mobile phone company Verizon Wireless, part owned by Vodafone, is going to muscle in on the $35bn (Â£18bn) merger of rivals Sprint and Nextel continued yesterday with hedge funds playing both
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc.  said on Thursday it is partnering with U.K. retailer Carphone Warehouse to test mobile phone-only stores at nine locations in Manhattan.