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T-Mobile Venture Fund invests in Roamware

Mobile roaming and media solutions provider Roamware announced an unspecified strategic investment from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile Venture Fund. Roamware's mobile media applications enable subscribers to discover, use and share multimedia content--its voice and data roaming solutions are installed in 317 operator networks in 127 countries. In a statement, Roamware executive vice president and CFO Eran Pilovsky said the investment will enable the firm to fund inorganic growth initiatives as it gears up for expansion.

T-Mobile and HTC announced

Google started the alliance a year ago when it officially unveiled Android, the open source operating system it created. The Android software is designed to provide handset makers and wireless operators an open platform on which they can develop new and innovative applications.

The alliance was formed to help support the creation of these applications, resulting in richer features that are less expensive to develop and deploy. Thirty-four companies initially signed on to the alliance. And now the group boasts 47 members.

Nearly all the major handset makers have signed on, including HTC, LG, Motorola, and Samsung. US wireless operators T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel are also members.

T-Mobile and HTC announced in October the G1, the first phone to use the Android operating system. And more handsets are expected to come on the market from a variety of handset makers in 2009.