Vodafone UK and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announce a seven year agreement which will see Ericsson provide maintenance and operations for Vodafone UK’s 2G and 3G radio access networks. The contract includes the transfer of approximately 350 employees from Vodafone to Ericsson, scheduled for the beginning of May.

Jeni Mundy, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone UK, says:  “We see this as a strategic long-term relationship, offering real operational and financial benefits allowing us, over time, to reinvest savings in delivering new products and services for customers. Ericsson is the specialist in this area and will be critical in helping maintain our high quality network – which customers expect from Vodafone.”

12 March 2009: This year’s Red Nose Day, which takes place this Friday, has gone mobile for the first time. Wapple has developed and is hosting the first official Red Nose Day mobile website for Comic Relief, which is to go live today. Users accessing the main Red Nose Day site - http://rednoseday.com – with a mobile phone will be automatically redirected to the mobile site.

The mobile site provides information and ‘inside scoops’, while also supporting fundraising efforts with ‘click to call’ – making it easy to make a donation and get information on other ways to contribute and raise money. A dedicated Red Nose Day Twitter will publish up-to-the minute action from around the UK directly to mobile phones. This is made possible through the unique combination of WAPL - Wapple’s XML-based mark-up language - and Canvas™, mobile publishing platform.

Vyke today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Nimbuzz, the Netherlands based provider of mobile social networking and interactivity applications.

This strategic partnership builds upon the component strengths of both Vyke and Nimbuzz by combining Vyke’s leading paid mVoIP service and Nimbuzz’ award winning mobile peer to peer mobile social messaging and VoIP services.

The globally available Nimbuzz service is currently growing at well over 20,000 new users per day and is the only aggregated mobile social messaging service to win a Red Herring Global 100 award.

Zynetix today announces the general availability of the next generation maritime GSM platform and service – the updated Zynetix Ocean Linx GSM controller and the new Zynetix Managed Core Services (MCS).  Both elements were selected by Globe Wireless for their new GSM-at-sea service, GlobeMobile, also launched today.