Sir Julian Horn-Smith, Deputy Chief Executive of Vodafone - and one of the company's founders - has announced that he's leaving the company this summer.
Last weekend's Sunday Times has an article written by the editor of "Television" in which he claims the technology that puts TV on mobile phones is still years away from providing a satisfactory service.
A project in California is planning to equip pigeons with satellite navigation and mobile phone technology to monitor smog. Data from the 20 pigeons will be automatically texted to a web site. Beatriz da Costa's 'Pigeonblog' is due to launch (no pun intended) this summer...
A press release from the USA suggests that many camera phone users are disppointed with their handsets and don't use the camera feature as much as expected. Meanwhile, a UK report says that many users are confused with 3G services and most non-3G users aren't interested in upgrading.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Contrasting with the 'disappointing' news below are stories that 2006 will be the year of 3G and also a boom year for mobile email.