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Arvani will be AuraSound's exclusive sales and marketing partner in W.Europe as the 2 companies form a partnership.

AuraSound is a high-end speaker specialist, whose products range from TV and laptop drivers to subwoofers and tactile transducers.

The first Aurasound products to make it to our territory will include its TV soundbar range as well as its Sound Station iDevice dock/universal media player.

Arvani will market all products under its own brand, and it will broaden its range as AuraSound launches more consumer audio products.

Go AuraSound Partners with Arvani in Europe

Cameras captured one unhappy little girl looking glum amid the splendor of the British royal wedding...

Probably she was thinking of her relatives abroad...

British citizens abroad who are iPad users and who watched the royal wedding faced roaming charges for watching the full YouTube broadcast outside of the UK, calculates Tru, a mobile network for international travelers who was not ashamed to take advantage of the occassion to promote its new Micro Sim for iPad.

A British person who decided "to catch just 45 minutes of the event on their iPad while soaking up the sun in Sydney or San Francisco, will rack up costs with Orange UK of an eye watering GBP 7344, the same person on a T-Mobile contract would be liable to pay GBP 6885."

Tru also says "Watching the full 8 hour BBC broadcast on YouTube's Royal channel could land Orange users a GBP 78,336 bill to welcome them home - enough to pay for Kate Middleton's dress, her tiara... and even the car that takes her to the service."

Tru, launching its Micro SIM for the iPad, wants to engage business users at only GBP 20 for the same amount of data. Now that could be a match made in heaven...

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Working assumptions:

* - You tube broadcasts at 340 Kbps:

* - 45 minute YouTube video = 918MB

* - 8 hour YouTube video = 9.792 GB

* - Orange Roaming Rates in US or AUS = GBP8.00 per MB

* - T-Mobile Roaming Rates in US or Aus = GBP7.50 per MB

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Go Tru Micro Sim

ComScor says the EU5's (UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) biggest mobile platform is Apple's iOS-- with a combined platform reach of 28.9m users (divided across all iDevices), with 12.4% of mobile subscribers

Google's Android is at second place (divided across all Android devices), with 13.5m users and 5.7% mobile subscriber share.

When it comes to actual smartphone ownership, Nokia retains its leadership within the EU5, with it owning 41.7% of the market. At second place is Apple, at 20.6%, followed by Samsung (9.1%), RIM (8.7%) and Sony Ericsson (4.4%).

Interestingly, the analyst's numbers also suggest iPad ownership goes beyond the Apple affacionados-- while 27.2% of iPad owners also use iPhones, 26.4% use Nokia phones. Bucking the trend are Blackberry users, who might be waiting out for the Playbook's launch.

The smartphone demographic also appears to skew towards male consumers, with 58.8% of smartphone (and 62.4% of iPad) owners being male.

Go ComScore EU5 MobiLens Results

Best Buy Europe sells its Belgian The Phone House chain to Belgacom for €22m.

The Phone House has 114 stores in Belgium, and will continue operating as an independent store chain retaining the same trade name.

Triggering the deal was a compelling valuation put on the business by Belgacom in a bid to expand its customer base, and it does not include Best Buy Europe's Belgian insurance business.

Meanwhile the retailer appears to have no plans to sell its stores in other international markets.

Go Belgacom Announces its Acquisition of The Phone House Belgium