Vodafone writes down £5.9bn as European ops suffer
Vodafone Group has announced a writedown of close to £6bn on its operations in Turkey, Spain and Ghana, as it presented its full-year results on Tuesday, but on balance the mobile operator turned in a largely solid performance given the economic situation and, as expected, accelerated its cost-cutting plans.
Total Telecom

Norway decides on T-DMB for Mobile TV
A joint venture between Norweigan broadcasters NRK, TV2, and Modern Times Group, has launched MiniTV - a new mobile-TV service that uses the T-DMB standard to broadcast a mixture of free-to-air channels, and pay-TV.
Into Mobile

What can mobile do for your brand?
Mobile has long been the underachiever of digital advertising, tipped for great things but never delivering its true potential. However, mobile advertising might be about to come of age thanks to consumer adoption of smartphones such as the iPhone and iPod Touch. Media Week investigates the £28.6m market for ads on the small screen.
Media Week

HTC Touch Diamond2 Smartphone Review
The original HTC Diamond was one of the company's bestselling handsets, so it was pretty much inevitable that HTC would take the Diamond name out for a second tour of duty. However, design-wise this new handset is very different to its predecessor.
Trusted Reviews

Tech Rumor of the Day: Qualcomm 'Smartbooks'
Qualcomm's  long-awaited Snapdragon platform is expected to debut in what some have dubbed "smartbooks" sometime in the second half of the year.
The Street

Mobile Streams' Australian Adult Fantasy
Content provider Mobile Streams is rolling out its adult brand in Australia and across Asia-Pacific. The subscription-based Adult Fantasy service, which comes in at A$8/month, will be offered through Mobile Streams' operator partners in the region.
Mobile Entertainment

Speech Applications in Mobile Computing to Triple by 2014
As individuals around the world become more accustomed to using mobile computing devices in hands-busy, eyes-busy environments, Datamonitor predicts the market for advanced speech recognition in mobile handsets will increase from $32.7 million in 2009 to $99.6 million in 2014.
Cellular-News

Computers can detect bullying on social networking sites
The university of Wolverhampton has developed software capable of taking the emotional temperature of postings on social networking sites After three months' development work, the software is able to assess the emotional content of postings with an accuracy of 60% - as good as a human reader.
ComputerWeekly.com

UK firm starts research into lasers for high speed internet
IQE has won funding for research into compound semiconductor laser products for the next generation of high speed broadband access devices. It is anticipated that the research could one day lead to laser diode-based optical communictaions systems capable of supporting internet access technology with speeds up to 10Gbit/s.
ElectronicsWeekly.com

Another 490 jobs go at Nokia
Nokia, the world’s largest handset vendor in terms of shipments, plans to cut a further 490 positions on Tuesday as part of its belt-tightening strategy. The firm is looking at sliming down its Demand Supply Network Management organisation after cutting 450 employees from its internal IT and Compatibility & Industry Collaboration unit.
Telecoms.com

Microsoft and HP team up on communications
Microsoft and HP are to spend $180 million in building and promoting a new unified communication system. The new system will be designed to combine messaging, video and voice communications with applications into a single portal. The system will also work across PCs, mobile phones and other devices.
Vnunet.com