Claims by store staff at retailers O2, 3, Orange, Phones 4U and Carphone are at odds with employers’ messages on retail cutbacks, as panic among staff over job security sets in

Telecoms distributor Nimans now selling SIM free handsets and mobile accessories

Network to launch advertising on location-based services, such as branded search and points of interest

Home Office offering four lots of £100,000 for designers to produce new technologies for protecting data on mobiles from theft and fraud

Viewty Smart includes 8-megapixel camera with a number of new imaging features

Asavie, Neverfail and Telmap are inaugural members of O2’s Application Centre of Excellence

Avenir Telecom UK to ape Dextra and Kondor with concerted push into mobile and IT accessories distribution

More than 650 Starbucks stores across UK and Ireland to offer Wi-FI to BT Openzone as well as O2 iPhone customers

Lycamobile chief triples customer target to 15-20m users globally and lays out plans for 65 per cent UK market share

O2 UK chief Ronan Dunne, BT chief Ian Livingstone and Virgin Media chief Neil Berkett speaking at conference to discuss how best to implement Digital Britain recommendations