Yahoo! and ELLE have formed a partnership to provide fresh off-the-runway news, photos and trends from Fashion Week 2007 on the accessory people never leave home without - their mobile phone. Beginning Sept. 5 in New York City and followed by Fashion Weeks in Milan and Paris, consumers everywhere can access exclusive ELLE Fashion Week coverage through Yahoo! oneSearch on their mobile browser. Yahoo! oneSearch is a new search experience designed to give consumers more targeted content and instant info on their mobile phones. No more useless links that require time and patience to search and download.

Jamba, the mobile industry’s largest vertically integrated mobile entertainment company, will be exhibiting action-packed mobile entertainment for the first time at the Games Convention in Leipzig. From August 22 through 26, Jamba, together with Mr. Goodliving a global game development company, will showcase the latest trends in mobile games, including action games, exhilarating multiplayer games and many other novelties Jamba markets worldwide at stand B44 in Hall 4 at Leipziger Messe.

Kyocera Wireless, a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and leading wireless youth network Virgin Mobile USA announced that for the second consecutive year Kyocera is the premiere handset sponsor of Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile. A two-day music event held at historic Pimlico Race Course(C) in Baltimore, MD August 4-5, the festival includes over 40 bands and DJs featuring headline acts such as The Police, Beastie Boys and The Smashing Pumpkins.

The Nokia 6110 Navigator, launched in South Africa earlier this week, has proven its capabilities in one of the toughest environments possible - with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as they took the 'Long Way Down' from Scotland to the southern most tip of Africa on motorcycle. The journey lasted three months and saw the pair ride 24 000km and cross two continents. With the Nokia 6110 Navigator routing the path, best friends Ewan and Charley defied the elements atop customized BMW motorcycles, crossing the finishing line today in Cape Town.

With the increasing pace of digitalization of television transmission a new acronym has emerged: IPTV, which stands for “television on the basis of the internet protocol”. This refers to new kinds of television services which permit genuine interactivity, in other words not simply the capability for zapping through all the channels but also video on demand and individual access to all kinds of information and entertainment programmes. In this way television is expanding beyond the structures typically associated with it today: Viewers are no longer restricted solely to a time sequence stipulated by the programme schedules. Irrespective of the schedules drawn up by the television networks.

The GSMA is rebranding the 3GSM World Congress and its sister event in Asia to reflect their role encouraging the development of compelling new mobile services for end-users. Set to take place in Macau in November, the 3GSM World Congress Asia will now be called the Mobile Asia Congress and the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona has been rebranded as the Mobile World Congress. “Both the GSMA and the Congresses are focused on helping operators use the potent platform provided by today’s highly-capable and extensive mobile networks to better serve the many needs and desires of this industry’s almost 3 billion customers,” said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA, which owns both the Barcelona and Macau events.

Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless handsets and devices, at the CTIA Wireless trade show demonstrated several solutions that deliver on the promise of next-generation wireless technologies to enable a variety of mobile consumer applications. Using its trade show booth as an experience center, Kyocera is demonstrating prototype handsets and devices to showcase the Visa mobile platform using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology; MobiTV streaming television over a WiMAX high-speed connection with Runcom; Wi-Fi-powered music downloads; and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) mobile phone calls over dual-mode CDMA/Wi-Fi connections.

Motorola, Inc. announced its next-generation universal base station (UBS) and Picocell M810 at CTIA Wireless 2007. Both products will be deployed in mobile communications service provider networks with various frequencies and configurations (CDMA 1x and EVDO-Rev A) beginning this year. The Motorola UBS is built on a highly integrated product architecture that offers enhanced reliability and integrated functionality. It is a cost-effective solution for both emerging and mature markets with a broad range of capacity-growth capabilities and configurations.

Wireless 2007, the world’s largest event for the Wireless industry, announced that Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM) will deliver a keynote address on opening day, Tuesday, March 27. CTIA Wireless takes place March 27-29 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Mike Lazaridis is replacing Motorola CEO Ed Zander as a keynoter. “Mike Lazaridis is a welcome addition to a stellar keynote line-up this year,” said Robert Mesirow, vice president of operations and show director for CTIA Wireless.

Motorola, a global leader in wireless communications, delivered compelling mobile experiences with a portfolio of devices and solutions that demonstrate the company’s leadership in design, music, media, high-speed performance, wireless broadband and connecting the unconnected. “What better place than 3GSM World Congress to show how Motorola’s latest products and services are making seamless mobility real?” said Ron Garriques, president of Motorola Mobile Devices. “This year we’ll be demonstrating wickedly cool and compelling products that are making on the go and always-on entertainment and communication a personal reality for everyone, as well as the solutions and services which enable our customers to deliver them to their consumers.”