UK based fabless semiconductor vendor, Icera says that it is the first baseband chipset company to demonstrate a dual mode LTE / HSPA modem running on a commercial USB data stick, Click here for more.

Twenty fixed line operators in fifteen Arab countries served 27.8 million fixed line subscriptions by end of September 2009 down from 29.2 million at year end 2008, a drop of 4.6%. Click here for more.

Italian businessman Silvio Scaglia has been arrested pending questioning in an investigation into a claimed EUR2 billion (US$2.7 billion) money laundering scandal that has affected Telecom Italia and Swisscom. Click here for more.

China Mobile is reported to be close to taking a significant stake in a Chinese bank, in a move thought to be linked to its plans for mobile banking services. Click here for more.

A team from the telecoms aid charity, Telecoms Sans Frontiers (TSF) says that it is responding to the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 occurred in Chile at the weekend. Click here for more.

Vodafone has appointed a new Consumer Director responsible for the UK's Consumer Business Unit and its PandL. Click here for more.

Populist former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters denounced a court order to seize $1.4 billion of his assets and vowed Saturday to pursue a nonviolent struggle for what they said would be a people's democracy. Click here for more.

Police at LA port to carry cell phone cameras to increase surveillance at massive complex Click here for more.

According to Palm, Verizon customers who own a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus can now update to webOS 1.4. The update is being delivered over the air to handsets.

A number of organizations have responded to the recent earthquake in Chile by setting up SMS shortcodes to accept donations. Text Chile to 23583 to donate $10 to Habitat for Humanity, 20222 to donate $10 to World Vision, ...
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Phone Scoop takes a hands-on look at the new webOS 1.4 system software for Palm devices, including a tour of the new video shooting software.
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Sprint has recently started making webOS 1.4 available to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. The updated operating system brings a number of new features to the webOS platform. First and foremost, webOS devices can now capture and edit ...
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Leap Wireless to pay $13.8 million settlement in lawsuit over accounting errors Click here for more.

Shares of Palm continued their slide Friday, hurt by a sales forecast that cast doubt on prospects for its new smart phones in a fiercely competitive market. Click here for more.

Documents on the FCC web site today revealed details about an unannounced HTC device. The device, which bears the model number PB99300, has dual-band CDMA EVDO and Bluetooth radios on board. The FCC documents don't confirm any other details. ...
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The law firm of Goldman Scarlato & Karon, P.C., has filed a class action lawsuit against Verizon Wireless in the state of New Jersey. The lawsuit claims that Verizon charged its non-smartphone customers for data service that these customers ...
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Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha has stated that the company is open to creating handsets running Windows Phone 7. Motorola previously stepped away from Windows Mobile in favor of Android.

A recent report has been released that shows most Android users are male. Specifically 73% of Android users are guys compared to a more even mix with the iPhone and webOS devices.

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has revealed in an email that was leaked publically and originally intended for employees of Palm that the Verizon launch was below expectations. Rubinstein says that Palm and Verizon will work together to improve sales including throwing more advertising around.

It is being reported that South Africa's MTN and Telkom have separately made bids to buy Zimbabwe's mobile and landline operators, Net*One and TelOne, respectively. Click here for more.

Telefonica has reported that its fourth-quarter net profit rose by 22% to EUR2.44 billion ($3.31 billion), helped largely by Latin America. Click here for more.

The Nokia N95 maintained its dominance of the cellular parallel trading market for a second year in a row, reports RCS, with Nokia placed six models in the top ten, compared to seven of the top ten in 2008. Click here for more.

Last September, NEC, Casio Computer and Hitachi announced an agreement to merge their respective mobile phone businesses and began preparations for the launch of a new joint venture in April 2010. Click here for more.

Mexico's Grupo Iusacell has reported an eight percent drop in its fourth-quarter revenues to Ps.2.76 billion (US4215 million), compared to Ps.2.98 billion in the same period in 2008 Click here for more.

Nine judges of the Supreme Court are broadly applying mostly untested anti-corruption statutes in determining whether Thaksin - a telecommunications tycoon before entering politics - became "unusually wealthy" by abusing his position at the head of government in 2001-2006. Click here for more.

Novatel Wireless posted a profit in the fourth quarter on better sales of its modems and wireless networking gear. But the stock fell on weaker-than-expected guidance. Click here for more.

Apple, buoyed by the success of the iPhones, iPods and computers it churns out to breathless buyers, could give some of its $25 billion in cash back to shareholders. Click here for more.

Federal regulators will recommend that Congress devote up to $16 billion over 10 years to pay for a nationwide wireless broadband network that would allow police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers to communicate with each other. Click here for more.

Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of a carbon lattice with a honeycomb structure, has great potential for use in radios, computers, phones and other electronic devices. But applications have been stymied because the semi-metallic graphene, which has a zero band gap, does not function effectively as a semiconductor to amplify or switch electronic signals. Click here for more.

Today documents seen on the FCC web site provide a few details about an unannounced Nokia device. The FCC label indicates the name of the device is the C6. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band 850/1900 WCDMA radios, which ...
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UAE based Emirates Integrated Telecommunications (du) has reported that it ended last year a shade under 3.5 million customers, having added just over a million net new customers during 2009. Click here for more.

Malaysia's Maxis has reported that its 4th-quarter revenues rose by three percent to RM2.2 billion (US$645 million), primarily due to a 5% increase in total mobile subscriptions, bringing the Company's total subscriptions to 12.3 million. Click here for more.

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Globalive's WIND Mobile has officially launched in Edmonton, Canada, opening six retail locations across the city, with another one in the Edmonton City Centre set to open next month. Click here for more.

United States Cellular (US Cellular) has reported a net profit of US$12.4 million, for the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to a loss of US$200.1 million a year ago. Click here for more.