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NewsLG to overtake Motorola's market share soonAccording to a report in BusinessWeek, LG is closing in on Motorola's worldwide mobile phone marketshare. LG's marketshare racheted up to 8.6 percent in Q1, up from 6.4 percent in the year-ago Read more... Metric: 3 in 10 households have cut the landlineAccording to the National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, about three in 10 households either only use mobile phones or rarely take calls on their Read more... Report: Huawei to sell mobile devices unit
Huawei is mulling a sale of a multi-billion dollar stake in its mobile devices unit to a foreign investor that could connect it with U.S. carriers. The renewed interest in such a deal comes after Read more...
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> Samsung launches a promotional website for the Instinct, which is set to debut on Sprint's network in the coming months. Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Top Five Converged Devices
No longer just voice-centric phones, mobile devices now come in a variety of different form factors and sport a slew of new capabilities. The latest phones make Web browsing a reality, incorporate Read more...
Sony Ericsson brings Java, Flash together
Sony Ericsson is set to debut its Project Capuchin, which will allow developers to create applications for mobile phones that make use of both Java ME and Adobe's Flash Lite. Sony Ericsson will Read more...
Essar acquires stake in Obopay
Shortly after closing a $20 million fourth round of venture capital funding, Obopay has announced that India telecom Essar has acquired a strategic stake in the company for an undisclosed amount. Read more...
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> Samsung plans to open 300 mobile phone-centric stores in India. Article Read more...
| Press ReleasesSamsung, LG to develop joint standard for N. American mobile tv marketSeoul (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930) and LG Electronics Co. (KSE:066570), South Korea's world-class electronics manufacturers, said today they agreed to jointly Read more... IPTV Operators Searching for Competitive DifferentiationLONDON - May 12, 2008 In the past five years, IPTV has grown from a handful of deployments by a few pioneering telcos and ISPs to an established part of the pay-TV landscape with services Read more... Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grows 14.3% Amid Economic Jitters, According to IDC The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an expected sequential downturn in shipments following a busy holiday quarter. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors Read more... Skype Tests Software for Mass-Market Mobile Phones LUXEMBOURG, April 24, 2008 – Following recent moves to extend Skype™ conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step Read more... fringTM launches next generation offering … it’s fringing freedom!
LONDON, 5th February 2008, fring™ today announced the launch of a new version of its popular free to download, free to use mobile phone application, packed with additional features which Read more... |