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The BBC has an article on T-Mobile's apparent U-turn on walled garden content, partnering with Google instead (or, as far as I can tell, make Google the default homepage for higher-end handsets), and Vodafone partnering with Microsoft to bring MSN messaging to handsets.

Via 160characters.org:

Nokia, O2, & Vodafone are using Hypertag to distribute mobile content at UK Festivals this summer

The Wireless festival in Hyde Park, London this week will be the venue for both O2 and Nokia using Hypertag. To enhance their sponsorship of the event O2 is taking wearable Hypertags into the crowds to offer free ringtones and encourage people to visit the O2 bubbles where O2 customers can receive more content and exclusive services.

Full story in the title link.

Russell writes about Fotochatter in his "Mobile technology weblog".

Having played around with FreeNews from Free Range Inc (http://www.freerangeinc.com) for the last week, it's the first mobile RSS reader that really felt as usable as some desktop readers. Good looking UI, and very easy to use, it's certainly the best mobile RSS reader I have seen so far. In the mobile space, the only other RSS reader I regularly use is mobile bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/mobile) which, being entirely web/xhtml-based, isn't in quite the same field.

Via Computing, summary of an In-Stat study:

The global messaging market continues to be important to mobile carriers, with the bulk of the revenues coming from text messaging, newly published research has found.

According to In-Stat, the greatest growth in mobile messaging is expected to come from wireless instant messaging, which is expected to increase revenues sixfold between 2007 and 2009 driven by corporate users, the high-tech market research firm said.

More in the title link.