Microsoft's CEO has said - in answer to "can you crack the iPod market?" - that his company is looking at creating a music player combined with a mobile phone.
The European Commission is proposing that the cost of using a mobile phone abroad should be cut to the same level as using it at home. I can't see many consumers complaining about this... although why stop at mobile phone charges? Why not standardise the price of a bottle of wine? Petrol, too?
Japan takes another step towards paying by mobile phone
Japan's biggest mobile phone network is buying a share in the country's second-largest convenience store chain. It's then planning to allow customers to pay for goods using their mobile phones.
A new study from Sweden appears to show that heavy mobile phone use - at least an hour every working day for ten years - could increase the risk of a brain tumour.
French telecomms company Alcatel is to buy USA-based Lucent, creating the "world's leading communications solutions provider" according to their press release.
Chrysalis, the company behind UK radio stations including Magic and Galaxy, is trialling a mobile phone service that lets customers listen to digital radio stations by mobile phone. It's then possible to purchase the song that's playing by selecting a special 'buy' option on their handset.