Carl Icahn, billionaire financier, wants to raise his stake in American telecom giant Motorola and enter the board. His interest comes at a time when Motorola wants to buyback shares. Motorola seems to be undergoing the dark ages, as the company is not faring too well post the launch...

Hutchison is planning to start its mobile operation in Indonesia. Hutchison has inked an agreement with the Charoen Pokphand Group, a provider of GSM mobile telephony services. "With one of the largest populations in the region and a low wireless penetration rate, Indonesia....

Motorola has shipped its one millionth Internet Protocol (IP) set-top. "Communications companies worldwide are expanding into video through IPTV," said Doug Means, Motorola Corporate Vice President and General Manager...

Comtech, provider of customised module design solutions for the technology manufacturing sector in China, has signed a deal to provide customised module solution to ZTE, China’s second largest maker of telecom and networking gears...

Nokia has told Qualcomm that it does not hold exclusive rights to technology it licensed to Texas Instruments (TI) in 2000, for chips TI sells in Europe. The anti-trust case was filed in May 2005 by Golden Bridge Technology Incorporated (GBT) against Qualcomm, Ericsson...

Asia-Pacific remains the high-growth mobile markets in the world. Apart from the vast subscriber base, much of this growth is driven by drastically reduced tariffs, decline in handset prices and the expansion of network infrastructure in the emerging markets of India and Indonesia...

Yahoo! and MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband television and music services, have formed a new mobile advertising alliance. Yahoo! will be the ad network partner for MobiTV's mobile video advertising sales and delivery - providing access to an integrated mobile media-buy...

The mobile phones of today are becoming more complex with regard to the technology they offer. The technology behind gaming consoles is now making an entry into the mobile phone realm. This technology will allow the phone to act like a motion-sensing mouse...

Broadcom had urged a government panel to stop importing cell phones that include chips made by Qualcomm. This was done due to patent infringement lawsuits between the companies. Scott McGregor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom, said the prohibition would not disrupt...

Falling handset sales has prompted Motorola, the world’s second largest mobile phone maker to issue a revenue loss. Motorola has said that they have undergone a loss in their first-quarter revenue. The figures according to the company are way lower than the market expectations...

Mobile telecommunications network company, Vodafone, has initiated Internet-calling for mobile phones with Skype. The application is dubbed 'Starfish', which will allow users to chat via MSN, Yahoo, AOL, and Skype. Jan Holzberg, the manager for the product at Vodafone...

Cisco has said that it will provide a dual-mode IP telephony solution that utilises the N902iL FOMA / wireless LAN dual-mode mobile phone from NTT DoCoMo, coupled with Cisco Unified CallManager and the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. By offering connectivity between NTT DoCoMo's FOMA3G network...

China’s mobile phone users will surpass 600 million by 2010. There will be a decrease in the cost of a handset and airtime fees, a Government forecast said. In this year alone, China's mobile phone users is predicted to out pass 520 million, up from 460 million in 2006, the Ministry...

Samsung, a provider of telecommunications network systems and handsets, demonstrates its Mobile WiMAX technology and services for the first time in Europe at 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. Following Samsung and Sprint-Nextel’s partnership in August...

National Geographic has launched National Geographic Talk Abroad Travel Phone, designed specifically for the needs of the traveling public, allowing affordable calls from over 100 countries, with no contracts to sign and free incoming calls in most international markets...

Motorola has been selected by Worldmax to install a pilot 802.16e WiMAX network in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Motorola's WiMAX solution will help Worldmax as it aims to realise its vision of broadband 'on the go'. Jeanine van der Vlist, CEO Worldmax comments...

Nokia is making its smart2go mapping and navigation platform, available for free download, enabling people to use the map coverage offered on a mobile device. The platform allows for mapping and routing in over 150 countries and has support for full turn-by-turn satellite navigation...

Sony Ericsson has introduced two new phones to the Cyber-shot phone family. Complementing the K810, the K550 Cyber-shot phone delivers the benefits of Cyber-shot technology in a compact (14mm thin) form factor with easy to use features. It is equipped with a 2.0 megapixel camera...

Eyeball, the VoIP Call Completion company, has released AnyFirewall Engine, a firewall and NAT traversal SDK that incorporates the implementation of STUN, TURN and ICE. Together with AnyFirewall Server, AnyFirewall Engine ensures 100per cent call completion for VoIP...

AT&T is offering an unlimited free calling community, including wireless and wireline phone numbers. The AT&T Unity plan, aims to bring together home, business and wireless calling, creating a calling community of more than 100 million AT&T wireless and wireline phone numbers...