Unilever is using a mobile marketing service from Sonera Corpoation subsidiary Sonera Zed which is developing mobile advertising and mobile commerce solutions to corporations interested in mobile marketing and serving end users on the move.

The first solution with Unilever will include a Mobile Recipe Book and the second will be an extension of the Omo Careline to include FAQs regarding stain removing.

This is part of Unilevers quest for new relevant consumer solutions. Sonera Zed will provide us with a new medium to reach higher dimensions in consumer service and satisfaction says Christoph Michalski director of Unilevers Interactive Brand and Consumer Center.

Mobile communications is creating new business opportunities. The move towards mobile advertising and mobile commerce opens up a huge potential for creating new earnings models such as sponsorship and product advertising in mobile content services said Sonera Zed boss Juha Varelius.

Currently Zed services are available in SMS and WAP with the ability to expand into GPRS and UMTS. Zed has 600000 users in Finland.

The number of users registered at Zeds Finnish net service was close to 140000.

The radio cards will enable laptops and PDAs to connect to BTCellnets new high-speed data service GPRS. Engineers at BTCellnet will work with Options GPRS development teams in Cambridge and Leuven Belgium to develop customer-ready GPRS terminals from October.

BTCellnet will be marketing

Options GPRS terminals to connect wireless data applications to the new network which will support WAP and e-mail.

The terminals will also be used with BTCellnets new PocketNet Office application which enables users to web browse with the always on always connected benefits of GPRS.

Peter Richardson sales and marketing director of BTCellnet said:

This partnership with Option will further BTCellnets implementation of new technologies that benefit business users.

Business people on the move will be able to keep up-to-date all types of information including e-mail corporate news stock market updates as well as connecting to a corporate network.

Initially GPRS handsets will be capable of operating at speeds up to five times faster than on current GSM networks and speeds will increase up to ten times faster than is currently possible.

They now go forward to the national awards programme the winners of which will be judged in October.

The Young Entrepreneur awards are held annually. They are organised by Ernst & Young and are co-sponsored by Vodafone Citibank The Times and top jewellers Asprey & Garrard.

The awards are endorsed by the Department of Trade and Industry British Chambers of Commerce Institute of Directors and the Design Council.

Jay Pau (24) and Vimal Pau (27) began selling phones while still students.

The company is now one of Europes biggest accessory distributors. Sales last year reached 11 million.

The Fone Range group now includes fascia design and prodution house Nexxus Tec and merchandise licensing company FoneRange Partnerships.

Ananova is a digitally-rendered fully-animated internet newscaster and information provider using text-to-speech technology and providing advanced search capabilities.

Ananova is to be a key player in Oranges international internet operations. The computer-generated character was developed by the Leeds-based new media division of the Press Association the National News Agency.

Ananova is programmed to deliver breaking news faster than any human equivalent 24 hours a day.

Ananova is a key element of our plans to develop our overall portal platform which will take wirefree communications beyond what is available today reaching customers in the countries where we have a physical presence and beyond said Orange chief executive Hans Snook.

The event recognises successful retailing from bricks and mortar e-commerce design and product development to customer care and marketing.

What The Carphone Warehouse has achieved across Europe over 800 stores in 14 different countries including several number one market share positions is truly staggering. Moreover they seem to have done it without sacrificing their legendary customer service said judging panel chairman Mark Phillipson.

The flip-open handset launched in Korea this week can take 20 pictures.

A macro mode allows for photographs of written text to be taken. Standard accessories include a CD-ROM with picture-editing software and a data cable to connect the phone to a PC.

Samsung expects the phone to be able to be used to record emergencies or unexpected circumstances.

To take pictures the user presses the Camera Mode button on the side of the unit. A camera lens is located on the reverse side of the phone. The subject is viewed on the 1.5-inch LCD display.

The battery lasts for up to 200 minutes during picture taking with high-capacity batteries the Camera Phone delivers 170 minutes of talk time and 10 hours on standby.

The Camera Phone is the fifth multi-function mobile developed by Samsung after the MP3 Phone WAP phone Watch Phone and TV Phone.

Instead by speaking in an articulated but natural voice it will be possible to scroll through menus and to activate the dialling of directory entries and other commands.

These are the claims from word recognition specialist Domain Dynamics which has licensed European Telecoms new subsidiary ET Voice Limited to develop word recognition and speaker authentication services for mobile phones.

ET Voice will market word recognition applications later this year establishing technology transfer arrangements and licences with mobile phone and chip-set manufacturers worldwide. Instead of dialling a number or having to search through a handset directory the technology will allow users to activate voice dialling without the need to press buttons.

ET Voice now has worldwide exclusive rights to use Domain Dynamics TESPAR technology in mobile product development.

TESPAR is a signal processing technology which uses algorithms which require very little training time to recognise the sound of selected voices words or numbers and performs well in noisy environments.

The technology is said to be able to copy with varying speech speeds and pitches and can accommodate both temporary and permanent voice changes.

TESPAR accuracy is claimed to be better than that of existing products and about to double the capacity of the personal voice directory.

The sponsorship package will comprise 15 seconds of opening and closing credits for all movies until the end of December with Siemens-branded trailers.

Siemens will also have sponsorship rights to the Sky Movies web site and Sky Digitext available from November.

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Levi Cranston (18) is charged on eight counts of robbery with violence in the space of a month.

He is accused of robbing passengers of mobile phones and other personal belongings in April.

Afrinetworks owns the Eho chain which has 15 per cent of Moroccos cellular market. Emanuel made his money selling DX last year to BTCellnet for 42 million.