Meego, the open source OS backed by Nokia and Intel and summarily dropped by both earlier this year may be on the verge of a comeback. Jolla, a 200-person startup consisting of former Nokia employees—including Marc Dillon, who spearheaded Nokia’s work on Meego—says it is prepping a Meego-based smartphone to debut later this year.

HP is trying to branch itself out more in India, and now it is staking claims in yet another telecom space: it has launched its mobility platform for mobile service providers featuring the Enterprise Mobile App Store.

Paydiant, a startup that offers a mobile wallet banks and merchants can brand themselves, announced it received U.S.$12 million in Series B funding, bringing its total investment to U.S.$19.6 million.

The GSMA is reporting that the harmonized 700 MHz spectrum adoption in the Asia-Pacific region could generate U.S.$1 trillion between 2014 and 2020, and it is imperative for the region to work together to deploy the band for mobile services.