Engine trouble

Here’s a great business idea - a search engine custom-designed for mobile phones. And here are two groups which plan to exploit it: a squabbling international consortium of mobile operators and Google. It looks like a one-sided contest. The consortium is not yet fully formed, but it is likely to include such big names as O2 - Telefonica’s Anglo-German business - Italy’s Telecom Italia and US-based Cingular, according to a person familiar with the situation. Nor is there a product yet. There is ...