It was 1996 when I started working at the Cricklewood head office of Peoples Phone [writes Mark Bridge], initially in a sales support role before becoming part of the Marketing team. The company was ...

Mobile industry veterans Ben Wood and Matt Chatterley have launched an online mobile phone museum with over 2,000 different handsets from 200 manufacturers. The Mobile Phone Museum operates as a ...

Lee Jae-yong, the son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee (and grandson of the company’s founder), has been promoted to president of Samsung Electronics. It’s part of a reorganisation that ...

UK virtual network giffgaff, which launched four years ago as a SIM-only service, has started selling mobile phones directly to customers. The Telefonica-backed company is offering a range of 20 ...

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi has been removed from the US government’s blacklist. Earlier this year the American government added nine Chinese companies – including Xiaomi – to a blacklist ...

The Google Nexus S, Three UK’s iPad deals, an experimental giffgaff tariff and Truphone’s new identity are all featured in this week’s edition of The Fonecast. It’s an entertaining 30-minute summary ...

Campaign group UK Uncut, which says the government is letting rich individuals and corporations avoid tax while making massive cuts to public services, has been campaigning across the UK today. Its ...

Amazon.co.uk has started selling ‘pay monthly’ mobile phones online. More than 90 different handsets are being offered, including the Amazon Fire smartphone, thanks to an agreement with O2 UK. Some of ...

This week’s edition of The Fonecast includes an interview with Leslie Ferry, Vice President of Marketing at BroadSoft, about the company’s plans and its move into mobile. And, as usual, the podcast ...

In what looks likely to be the daftest news story this week, US-based digital coupon company Coupons.com has described iPhone users as chicken-eating fish lovers and Android users as pork-eating bird ...

UK-based communications service specialist Azzurri Communications has appointed Chris Jagusz as its new Chief Executive Officer. He’ll join at the end of the summer. Company chairman Steve Andrews ...

Apple has updated iOS6 and iOS7 to fix an issue with browsing web sites protected by SSL. Without this update, iPhone and iPad users who were visiting a ‘secure’ website were at risk of having their ...