Even Australians with no particular interest in cycling seem drawn to the Tour de France, and Vodafone Hutchinson Australia is tapping this interest by delivering "exclusive" content.

Mnet Group (ASX: MNZ) has been appointed as master content aggregator for Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) for its various content portals including Vodafone Live! and the former Hutchison network's Planet 3 service.

OK, I admit it: the TelstraOne Experience user interface that Telstra delivers on some mobile phones does provide benefits for the user as well as the company.

Mobile and Internet content services provider, Mobile Streams, has signed a licensing deal with mobile entertainment retailer, FoneStarz Media, for distribution of its content on channels Australia and New Zealand and Western Europe.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority wants feedback on its proposed new rules for blocking unwanted high-cost services delivered to mobile phones by the end of this week.

More than 30 Mobile Foxtel channels with improved audio and video quality are now available to iPhone users on Telstra's Next G network.

The global financial crisis continues to reverberate around the world but in Australia, at least, one business sector - the ever changing telecommunications industry – is experiencing rapidly increasing consumption of non-voice/text services, including multimedia, content, information and entertainment services by consumers as mobile phone usage matures.  

ASX listed mobile content specialist, Mercury Mobility (ASX: MMY) is to merge with m.Net Corporation to produce "a new generation of mobile expertise and capabilities, targeting global mobile carriers, media companies and content and brand owners," and with their respective shareholders each holding about 50 percent of the merged entity.  

Consumers have a smorgasbord of new smartphones and varying applications, functions and services to choose from as the market for the phones continues to grow despite an overall decline in the total mobile phone market.

Stung by criticism that LG’s iPhone-clones didn’t offer an app store, something most notable on the recent new “Arena” handset, LG promised to deliver its own “app store” – and has just come through with the goods in beta form.