Staff Reporter

The mobile industry is to lead the consumer electronics sector as smartphones gain in popularity with $17 billion in revenues this year

Ethnic MVNO Lebara is to air its first TV commercial on Eurosport during the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament

Truphone has updated its Android application to integrate instant messaging and accounts for other VoIP services

XLN increased its customer base by 25 per cent in 2009, also recording an all-time high for customer service

Orange retail director Sian Doyle has announced she will be leaving the network in March to join a mobile firm abroad

HP is the first manufacturer to announce the launch of a new device, a smartbook, that will be powered by Android and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor

Shebang has appointed former Brightstar Europe UK and Ireland sales director Joe Bennett as sales director, replacing Julian Burton who becomes general manager

HTC announces the Smart, which will be released across Europe and Asia in the spring

T-Mobile UK and Innovative Converged Devices (ICD) unveils portable family hub, to be made available in the UK later this year