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It may be time for Chinese firm Huawei to deliver a bit of a smackdown to Apple’s iPad, in the form of its new SmaKit S7 tablet running Android 2.1.

A panel discussion including representatives from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and mobile tech developer Motricity, at CommunicAsia in Singapore touched on why the mobile internet was so important and what the various firms are doing to make sure they don’t miss the mobile boat.

French network operator Bouygues Telecom has selected Bluestreak Technologies Inc’s Flash based MachBlue platform to power the next generation interface of Bouygues’ Bbox IPTV.

You’ve heard of the iPhone, but have you heard of the Y-Phone? Internet portal Yahoo announced at CommunicAsia today that it had teamed up with Alcatel to release a phone dubbed the Alcatel One Touch, with bundled Yahoo content and software the firm hopes will attract mobile internet adopters in Indonesia and other emerging markets throughout Asia.

The global trade body of mobile media, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), sees some clear mobile trends emerging in 2010, including the increasing demand for multiplatform delivery, more data heavy services, micro-payments for content, operator enabled services and rather a lot more.

Despite the well-publicized spat between Apple and Google, mobile advertising company Smaato’s monthly metrics shows that Symbian devices continue to dominate the US mobile advertising market.

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Satnav software maker Telmap is a company that clearly knows which direction it’s going in. The privately held white label mapping and navigation firm has recently been undergoing a strategy shift, transforming itself from a subscription company into one offering LBS (location-based services) to operators like the Orange FT Group, Vodafone, Vodacom, SFR, O2, Telefonica, AOL, Pelephone, Carphone Warehouse and more.

According to an anonymous tip to the Google Operating System blog, the search engine giant is testing its own Google Voice VoIP service through Gmail. Indeed, we’ve noticed the new icons pop up on our Gchat boxes today.

Apple has revised the rules on its iOS 4 yet again to cut out outside advertisers in favour of Apple’s own iAD mobile advertising platform.

At a recent mobile Monday event in Taipei, founder and CTO of Puno Systems John Williamson discussed the general structure of how the contract manufacturer-ODM-OEM-distributor value chain works for PDAs and Smartphones, touching on the dilemma over branding and other factors affecting the mobile distribution channel.

Today Microsoft revealed the policies governing the marketplace on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 series devices via a post on its Windows Team blog. Amongst the announcements, no adult content allowed.