There will also be live music from the worlds ultimate party band Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

Nokia also says it expects annual double-digit market volume growth to continue from 2002 onwards.

Nokia says this years market volume will finish at 380 million phones with expectations for about 105 to 110 million sold in the fourth quarter.

The company continues to expect a billion mobile phone subscribers during the first half of next year and is forecasting a total of 1.5 billion subscribers by 2005.

The Finnish manufacturer has promised a stream of new product and category launches for next year to achieve its long-term target of a 40 per cent share.

Shipment of dual-mode GSM/WCDMA 3G phones will start during the second half of 2002. These are expected to account for roughly 10 per cent of all mobile phone unit sales in 2003.

Last month Nokia launched a total of nine new products (Mobile News November 29): six mobile phones including Nokias first imaging phone and three models targeted specifically at Asia-Pacific the fastest growing market; and three Bluetooth accessories.

Yeoman has developed what it says is the worlds first turn-by-turn mobile navigation and traffic service which works through mobile phone text messaging rather than conventional GPS in-car installation.

McIntyre who also held senior sales and marketing positions at Orbitel Mobile Phones will be in charge of the commercial roll-out of Yeomans mobile navigation service which enables drivers to access route planningturn-by-turn directions and traffic information through conventional mobile phones.

Yeomans services will revolutionise the in-car navigation market and its exciting to be involved with such a dynamic and innovative company said McIntyre.

McIntyre is one of the countrys top sailors. He competed in two Olympic Games one Americas Cup (1986) and two Admirals Cups (1989 1991). He won an Olympic Gold medal in the 1988 Star Class for which he was awarded an MBE.

This is double the amount sent the same time a year ago.

The MDA says 38 million text messages are now sent every day compared with 21 million a day last year.

Pumfrey was at the network for four years and introduced Orange pre-pay to the high street.

Ex-Dolphin Telecom logistics and distribution account director Deborah Pope has also joined Unique to work on new areas of business.

Pope has worked in the mobile communications industry since 1985.

The Korean electronics giant plans to sell four million of the 1.8 inch small and mid-sized colour screens this year.The screens produce over four thousand colours and can precisely reproduce moving images.

Handsets with colour displays made up 12 per cent of the handset market last year says Samsung.

This says Samsung is set to rise to 60 per cent of the market.

Fone Range went into administration last April after selling the Fone Range band to Elite Mobile Accessories.

It blamed its failure on increased margin pressure in combination with high levels of fixed overheads.

Fone Range founders Jay and Vimal Pau are now operating through another company called Blue-I.

Fone Range administrators Levy Gee says 21504 was raised from a sale of remaining Fone Range stock.

A total of 13565 has been collected from trade debtors and 80000 has come in from the joint venture Fone Range Ireland.

Blue-I has since made two payments totalling 30000 and 9278 VAT refund has been obtained. A corporation tax refund is also on the cards. Creditors will soon decide to accept a voluntary arrangement for partial payment of their debts or have the company put into liquidation.

Manpower said the survey results showed that telecommunications is expecting its worst employment prospects since 1996.

Net job gains are down from a year ago due to lay-offs and a trend towards sub-contracting labour.

3 intends to invite people who have registered on its website to the opening of its flagship stores in London and Birmingham in the middle of February – the same time as the Cannes show.

The network will be sending delegates to the event but there will be no key presentations given by its personnel and no 3 stand.

The show falls at a time when we are very busy said a 3 spokesman. The week before and after the show we are inviting people to our stores and so we just cant afford to have key people away.

A 3 television advertisement featuring a variety of people trying to describe a goal scored by Liverpool ace Michael Owen was awarded ad of the week by advertising trade magazine Campaign last week.

The advertisement unveils 3s Premier League highlights package and aired on Monday January 13.

3 has dismisssed newspaper reports that it has attracted 30000 pre-registrations from its website although 3 agrees registrations are into five figures.

Adel Radwan (48) was ordered not to go within 50 metres of the shop or try to contact Deirdre John-Baptiste or Natasha Raveneau.

Egyptian-born Radwan is charged with intent to cause John-Baptiste alarm and distress with threatening behaviour at the shop last week. He is also charged with racially-aggravated harassment.