3, eBay, Google to revolutionise mobile internet

Mobile network operator 3 publicized an agreement with top internet companies - including Google, Skype and eBay - which the firm promises will revolutionise the rapidly emerging mobile web. ... 3 will allow its customers to make free internet phone calls ... to watch their home television via their mobile handset and even access their personal computers whilst on the move.

Watch television on your phone, surf the net on your phone... this all sounds very similar to the old promises of 3G phones, which have largely been ignored by consumers. Let's hope that this partnership with two of the internet's biggest players can create something a bit more exciting.

Mobile eBaying goes European

If you can't bear to be away from eBay even when you're out - and I have heard that some people are like that ;-) - Pocket Auctions now lets anyone with a Java-enabled mobile watch their sales, bid or buy through the phone handset. The service began in the UK last year and has proved so popular that local services for France, Germany, Italy and Spain have now been launched.