Stories about: Vodafone

As Thursday turned to Friday shoppers in Sydney were among the first in the world to pick up the new phone during a midnight event at a local Optus store.

As if "openness" wasn't already the key word of the year for mobile communications, Nokia took the concept a step further Tuesday, announcing plans to create an organization called the Symbian Foundation, which will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.

Vodafone's CEO resigns, NASA's Mars Lander touches down, Dell is found guilty of fraud, LG introduces the KF600, Sony shows off pricey speakers, Google I/O kicks off, and more!.

Linux is expanding its influence outside of the world of smartphones, and is poised to take a significant share of the mid-range mobile phone market as well, according to a new study from ABI Research.

There was a lot of talk about WiMax at CTIA this week, but in the convention center parking lot, the rubber hit the road.

The LiMo Foundation was formed on January 2007 as a consortium of mobile industry companies joining together to create for handsets an open and standardized software platform based on Linux. Their goal is to deliver an open handset format that will become more widely accepted and used over closed, proprietary platforms. The foundation's major founders include Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone. These companies and other members share leadership and decision making.

CeBIT comes to a close, reporting more visits to this show than last year.

In the news this week: CeBIT - Intel and AMD's new chips, Asus' new Eee PC, Greenpeace, Vodafone's image search service, Blackerry browser updates, and more!

Vodafone has a photo frame with cellular modem built in so friends and family can send images. The frame has no subscription charges and also accepts images via e-mail.

Vodafone demonstrates image-based search. The service was launched commercially as CeBIT began and allows newspaper readers to take shots of articles and receive related video on their cell phones.

Another mobile Linux platform, this time from Azingo, hit the market on Wednesday, joining an increasingly crowded market of Linux phone software.