London, UK — April 23, 2009 —Handmark®, the leading global developer and distributor of mobile games, applications and storefronts, today announced its new Mobile Store Platform. This platform offers a fast, turnkey solution for handset manufactures and carriers to launch their own native, on-device mobile store full of the best mobile games, apps, ringtones, themes and more.

The platform is ready to employ across a wide-range of Windows Mobile® devices immediately, but will soon be available across a variety of other smartphone platforms.

“Developers around the world have created an amazing array of titles that complement the unique Windows Mobile experience,” said Chris Barnett, EVP of Global Sales for Handmark.

Read more: Handmark Unveils Industry’s First End-to-End, Customizable Mobile Store Solution for Partners

Groundbreaking new mobile and web service helps users share, synchronise and backup mobile content online, bridging the gap between mobile and web

London, 22 April 2009 – vufone, a new mobile service that enables users to share, manage and unify all the social content between their mobile devices and the Internet through one simple interface, launches today in the UK.

Bridging the gap between mobile and web applications, vufone’s pioneering service allows users to automatically synchronise personal mobile content with photos, videos and other multimedia across the spectrum of popular social media websites. Accessing their personal profile via mobile handset or the web, vufone members are able to organise and share content on Facebook, Flickr, Gmail and soon Youtube and more from one location.

Read more: Social sharing revolution goes mobile with vufone

Copenhagen and London, 22nd April, 2009 - Vopium, the company that drives down the cost of international mobile phone calls has today been honoured with the 2009 European Mobile VoIP Technology Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan. The award recognises Vopium's dedication to innovation, its commitment to bringing new products to market and its excellence in technology-leveraged and customer-focused services.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation is presented to the company that has demonstrated technological superiority within its industry. This award is testament to Vopium's ability to successfully develop and introduce new technology, formulate a well-designed product family, and make significant product performance contributions to the industry.

Read more: Vopium wins the Frost & Sullivan 2009 European Mobile VoIP Technology Innovation Award

Mobile VoIP provider extends high-quality, versatile communication application to iPhone for significant savings on international calls.

Copenhagen and London, April 22, 2009 – Vopium, the leading international mobile communications company, today announced that it is extending its high-quality, versatile communication application to the iPhone™. Powered by mobile VoIP and Wi-Fi technology, Vopium enables users to easily make free and heavily-discounted international calls, saving up to 90% off traditional international mobile and land-line costs. Consumers and businesses that download and register the application, which is now available in Apple’s App StoreSM, will receive 30 minutes of free calls and 30 text messages (SMS) to get started.

Read more: Vopium Application for iPhone™ Eliminates Outrageous International Calling Fees

Talk and text costs remain the most important factors when purchasing a mobile phone

Cambridge, UK, 22nd April 2009 – Consumers view call and text prices as more important than 3G and social networking capabilities, research commissioned by OpenCloud has found. In a survey of 1,000 consumers, over 80 per cent of consumers see call and text prices as the most important factors when looking for a new phone, whereas two-thirds of respondents view social networking applications as luxury additions and non-essential.

The ‘My Mobile Lifestyle’ survey, looking at consumer attitudes to mobile phone usage and types of services they desire, found the current economic uncertainty to be affecting the penetration of social media and 3G applications into the nation’s consciousness.

Read more: Consumers still believe that it’s good to talk