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Does everyone remember Charlie Waldren’s post from yesterday? Well it seems Orange was listening. — So, I wrote an article yesterday about the problems I had been having with my phone and with Orange.

No seriously! Despite how rubbish you can be (note, not all are that rubbish), you have this ability to make me laugh, even when it’s not funny!

Do you remember Mike Taylor, Head of Media and Entertainment mobile aggregator, WIN Plc, is racing a banger (”really old car”) across Europe, representing the mobile industry as he goes?   (Here’s our original coverage). Well they’re more than half way toward their fundraising target of 5,000 pounds.  The proceeds are for a UK adoption charity (Adoption UK).

I’ve been meaning to do a post about this news released by Ofcom a few weeks ago. Here are the highlights: By the end of 2007, there were almost 74 million mobile connections serving a population of 60 million in the UK. This was an increase of 3.7 million connections since the end of 2006. The total number of mobile connections increased by 48 per cent in the five years from 2002.

Carphone Warehouse are hosting a Christmas Press Show next Tuesday. It’s a preview of their hottest handsets and product announcements that we can expect to see hit their shops toward Christmas.

Tim Sills is based out of Southern California and one of his bags is mobile payments. He’s got quite a bit of experience in the category so I asked him to write an overview of where we are in the marketplace from his perspective. Here we go. Tim, over to you: - - - - -

This had to happen, didn’t it? If you thought Orange paid Polish actors to make fake queues outside their shops just so that it would seem that they were having a good sale, then you are wrong my friend. Or at least that’s what Orange wants us to believe!

Kudos to Matthew Bennett who has already sent us three different videos, filmed, if I’m not very much mistaken, on a Nokia N95. Stands to reason as Matthew runs NSeriesUS.com. Matthew has pointed the camera at himself and filmed the following lines: - “You’re watching Mobile Industry Review, not SMS Text News” - “And now for something totally different”

I think it was Stephen Davies, who runs PR Blogger, who put me on to the Berocca Blogger Relief page. The page begins: Blogging can be stressful. We live in a world where millions of people read and demand new content from websites every day. Of course, someone’s got to satisfy this demand and as The New York Times and The Guardian have reported, it can be a pretty hectic job!

Are you among those who think that their operator is overcharging for calls? If you are, EU might just be the angel in disguise you were looking for.