Vodafone and Google have announced plans “to develop a location-based version of Google Maps for mobile,” which should present users with a range of local search and navigation options.

Americans may be out of luck, however – the two companies only mentioned “key European markets” in an official statement.

Orb Networks, a software development firm has announced a new service called MyCasting, which allows users to share Internet videos from their PCs to mobile phones, by text message links. User can watch videos from popular sites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Google and Yahoo.

"Demand for Internet video on the PC is insatiable with more than 100 million streams daily on YouTube alone and many of those streams are being forwarded and shared virally via email and IM," said Joe Costello, Chairman and CEO of Orb Networks.

Vodafone and MySpace announced a deal today to provide social networking services to European customers for the first time. This move is representative of a continued push into the mobile marketplace by social networking services, along with their advertising partners.

With the Internet growing so rapidly do you ever wonder if you are missing a new trend or technology that could boost your bottom line?

I’ve been trying out the new Gmail Mobile email service on my mobile phone.

Yahoo is making its way, one step at a time, into the mobile market.

The world’s biggest revenue generator in the mobile phone sector has no plans to block VoIP on its network.

Vodafone, Linksys and Cisco Systems have launched the new 3G/UMTS Router tuesday, which provides mobile data connectivity at high speeds.