Nokia is taking The Recording Academy and the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards 'global and mobile' by offering GRAMMY Award winning music and video programming to Nokia customers around the world. GRAMMY Award-winning music is also planned to be available for download from the Nokia Music Store as well as preloaded on selected Nokia devices in key markets.

The GSM Association (GSMA) announced that film actor, director and Sundance Institute Founder & President, Robert Redford will headline at Mobile Backstage, a special one day Mobile Entertainment conference on Wednesday 13th February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s largest communications industry event. Known as the primary force for 25 years in the nurturing of new cinematic voices and the emergence of independent film as a force in the entertainment industry, Redford and Sundance continue a tradition of exploration and promotion of content delivery on new platforms.

Pepcom, Inc. announced it's taking its signature mobile and wireless press showcase event into the European market! The first annual MobileFocus Global in Barcelona will take place after opening day of the Mobile World Congress trade show. MobileFocus Global will be held at the Avenida Palace hotel in central Barcelona, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 11th. MobileFocus will be the largest media gathering during the show, with hundreds of journalists and analysts expected to attend.

SanDisk Corporation’s launch party on the famous Sunset Strip this past weekend was filled with an exclusive group of celebrities, musicians, SanDisk key clients and the world’s media enjoying VIP treatment in three of the most exclusive venues on Sunset Strip. Lucky guests were treated to exclusive performances from Linkin Park, Common, Z-Trip, Supernatural, Cut Chemist and The Crystal Method, all of whom performed in the top three legendary clubs in Los Angeles. The SanDisk event was the first time the Viper Room, The Roxy and the Key Club were simultaneously reserved for a single event by one company.

During a mixed dealer and press event in London, Samsung officially announced the Samsung G800 camera phone. The high resolution 5 Megapixel Samsung G800 is an enhanced version of the G600. Samsung introduce the new G800 camera phone as a striking digital camera that can also be used as a mobile phone. Samsung has high expectations from the G800 handset. Samsung had hired part of the British Museum for the event that took place in London on Monday night 29th of October.

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Cellufun announced their 'Hellofun' celebration; a community event where users can decorate their homepages and dress up their avatars in costumes. Just like all people who trick-or-treat every Halloween across the VS, Cellufun users can collect treats and give out tricks, right from their mobile phone. Registered users will find -from today on- a link on their homepage that invites them to "Celebrate Hellofun." Users start decorating their homepages with Halloween imagery, choose frightfully clever costumes for their avatars, and compete in giving and getting tricks and treats.

HTC gave their third press conference in the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands. Mark Moons, Country Manager Benelux and spokesman for HTC Netherlands looked back on the first half of this year, 2007, and compared it with the first half of 2006 regarding the market share they possessed at that time. Canalys data show a market share increase from 11.2 to 14.4%. At the same time it becomes apparent that Windows Mobile as operating system for the smartphone is the undisputed market leader with a total market growth of 17.6%. Resulting in a market leadership in the Netherlands for HTC phones for Windows Mobile Smartphones with a share of 69% (first half of 2007) as is shown in a diagram by Canalys.

Monotype Imaging Inc., a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, is bringing mobile alive with scalable fonts at the Symbian Smartphone Show, Oct. 16 - 17, at the Excel Centre in London. Monotype Imaging will feature demonstrations at its stand (# 35) and a series of presentations in the Live Lounge on how developers, handset manufacturers, operators and designers can enrich the mobile experience with fonts.

Pentax Technologies is pleased to announce that their UK distributor RGI Mobile Solutions will showcase the ultra mobile Pentax PocketJet 3/3 Plus printer solution and Pentax DS Mobile 600 colour scanner at Service Management Europe at the NEC, Birmingham, in October. RGI Mobile Solutions have been distributing the Pentax PocketJet range of portable printers and peripherals for over seven years. Thousands of PocketJets have been successfully installed in utility, fire, ambulance, military and commercial vehicles and field service engineers’ kits.

Deutsche Telekom is very satisfied with this year's Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin. More than 170,000 IFA visitors came to Deutsche Telekom stand in Hall 6.2 to find out about the latest innovations and trends in telecommunications. Over 700 visitors a day took up the offer of one-to-one advice at the service counter. Here, many individual questions on Deutsche Telekom's services and tariffs were answered and many mobile phones quickly repaired or re-set by experts.