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Kayal Interactive merge with Synergenix

The merger will enable Kayak Interactive to distribute mobile entertainment content in North America, Europe and Asia to over 40 carriers. Kayak will also have a unique technology leadership position of supporting Java and BREW games, complemented with mophun and Kayak Live.  mophun is the cross platform game middleware for Brew, Symbian, Smartphone and Wipi. Kayak Live is the leading connected entertainment platform for mobile games which works for Java and Brew games, and on any carrier network.

Virgin Mobile USA plans for an IPO

About time really. Sprint resells service to Virgin, which has developed a successful formula of marketing, particularly to teenaged users. More from the WSJ.

Also Alltel is set to acquire Western Wireless.

Sprint - Nextel Merger

I haven't covered the recent Sprint - Nextel merger, but here are some articles that you might find interesting:

: Ovum on Sprint Nextel merger

: Mobile Merger mania

: Sizing up the Sprint/Nextel deal

The $35 billion Sprint/Nextel Communications merger announced last week answers a lot of questions for those who wondered when further consolidation of the wireless service market would happen. The formation of the third-largest wireless provider (behind Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless) also raises a new set of questions, which we take a whack at here

: Sprint - Nextel merger challenges. More here.

: Sprint buys Nextel, and what happens to Alltel? A Natural target for Verizon Wireless?

: Why Sprint and Nextel got hitched and the logic behind the deal.

: Rosy future for Sprint - Nextel marriage

: The merger is a plus for Qualcomm as well. Not so for Motorola.

Sprint has long used Qualcomm's patented technology, while Nextel has used its own proprietary wireless technology. The merger of the country's third-and fifth-largest wireless companies means that the combined entity eventually will migrate all users to Qualcomm's technology, especially for next-generation wireless services such as high-speed data. Analysts said that is undeniably good news for Qualcomm, which had been shut out of offering its code division multiple access, or CDMA, technology to Nextel's 15.3 million customers. Sprint has about 20 million wireless customers.