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Verizon Wireless will pay a $10 billion dividend early next year to its stakeholders Vodafone Group Plc and Verizon Communications.

According to the statement Vodafone will be paid $4.5 billion, or $1 billion less than the amount the British company's chief financial officer, Andy Halford, had said he expected as recently as June 30.

The payouts will be made on the basis of the stake owned by each parent company. 45% share belongs to Vodafone while the rest is owned by Verizon Communications.

ICICI Bank has entered into a partnership with a telecom company Vodafone Essar to create a joint venture that will offer mobile financial services to a huge base of unbanked consumers in India.

The companies will be providing savings accounts, pre-paid instruments and credit products through a mobile phone based platform, tapping Vodafone's 1.5 million retail points throughout the country to acquire and service customers.

Three mobile operators T-Mobile, Telefonica O2 and Vodafone have announced their partnership to promote m-payments in Czech Republic. The operators launched a special campaign 'Pay by Mobile' ('Plat mobilem') which even has its own black and orange logo. It is known that today more than 11% Czechs use their mobile phones to pay for goods. However mobile operators consider this figure very low, so they decided to extend the network of vendors offering this convenient payment method.

Boku is entering a new direct partnership with Vodafone UK to use its API. Under the new deal Boku users will be able to charge their online purchases (this applies beyond just virtual goods) directly to their Vodafone pre and post paid accounts by connecting with Vodafone’s MPAY payments API.

Vodafone customers can make either single or subscription purchases of any amount between 5p and £30 GBP. The connection also enables two-step authorization and capture, transaction processing and the ability pass refunds back to the customer’s account.

Vodafone is showing extreme generosity giving away the email addresses of any of its customers.

The password reminder feature on the company website in the “My account” section allows anyone to learn others’ email address. All you have to do is enter the phone number of the person you're interested in. If he's got an online account, Vodafone gladly gives up his email address.

Vodafone is delighted to present its R201 mobile hotspot. 

The gadget first emerged last week.

The R201 shares a tri-band 3G connection - 7.2Mb/s HSDPA, 5.8Mb/s HSUPA - between five devices that link up to it over Wi-Fi. It has a Micro SDHC card slot that can likewise be shared among clients, by DLNA and SMB file-sharing.

An official upgrade to HTC Desire to new operating system Android 2.2, or Froyo, which has long been waited by Vodafone consumers turns out a great disappointment making thing worse than they were before.

Vodafone customers have been waiting excitedly for an upgrade their HTC Desire phones, but on installation they discovered that it comes tainted with Vodafone’s idea of cool extra features.

A search engine # 1, Google has announced about its intention to close its online web store and to stop selling its Nexus One phone that was launched in January and treated as a key iPhone competitor. This will happen as soon as the existing stock is depleted. The phones will be sold only by the partners of the company, including Vodafone in Europe, KT in Korea and etc. The existing customers will continue to be served by the Customer Support. 

Vodafone and Doha Bank have partnered for the launch of a mobile money transfer service for Qatar customers. According to the official statement the service is scheduled to go live early next year. Using it customers will be able to send money to friends and family overseas, or locally, via a mobile phone.

Customers should apply for a Vodafone Money Transfer (VMT) account from Vodafone Qatar in order to avail themselves of the service. After the registration customers can load money onto their mobile phone from Doha Bank e-branches or directly via a bank transfer.

Today, we are to consider the Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of one of the EU members - Hungary that over the last few days has shined on the world arena over its potential debt crisis. Hungary represents a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia, with the capital in Budapest. Being an EU member since 2004, the country also is one of representatives of NATO, OECD, V4. It’s also a Schengen state.

Google Inc announced its plans to discontinue offering its Nexus One device for the Verizon Wireless network. Besides, the company said it will change its distribution plans in Britain. The announcement comes about four months after Google unveiled the Nexus One.

Meantime, analysts do not expect any significant impact of the Verizon decline on Google’s revenue who has earned 97% of its $23.7 billion in revenue last year from advertising.

Sony Ericsson’s the Xperia X10 Android-based touchscreen smartphone, that is due to go on sale next month through Vodafone, Virgin Media and Orange, lacks hardware support for multi-touch operation, dashing hopes that the feature's absence might be remedied by a firmware update.

The X10 sports a 4in, 480 x 854 touchscreen and runs Android 1.6.

Iceland is a miniature European island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000 km2. Over the recent years, this small government has been one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the world. Iceland has a free market economy with relatively low taxes compared with other OECD countries, while maintaining a Nordic welfare system providing universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens.

Vodafone Spain admitted about 3,000 customers were potentially vulnerable to malware after Mariposa botnet agents strayed onto the HTC Magic smartphone.

Vodafone has launched a probe into the infection. The company maintains that the whole losing business is "isolated and local". Actually, there's no evidence that HTC Magic smartphones supplied by Vodafone elsewhere in Europe are injured. Meantime, new figures suggesting 3,000 users were exposed to the malware make it one of the biggest incidents of an IT supplier shipping pre-pwned mobile kit.

A mobile operator Vodafone is implementing M-Pesa payment system in South Africa after its successful deployment in Kenya.

Since its launch in 2007 by Vodafone affiliate Safaricom M-Pesa has been implemented in Tanzania and Afghanistan. According to the latest figures over 10% of Kenya's GDP now pass through the mobile banking service.