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...

Skype and Nokia have entered a collaboration to develop a new mobile Skype experience on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The collaboration builds on the desktop Skype and makes it mobile. The Nokia N800's small size wireless connectivity frees Skype users from their desktop, allowing...

Singapore Telecommunications, Southeast Asia’s largest telephone company, is planning to raise its 31per cent stake in Bharti Airtel if it is offered Vodafone Group Plc’s shares in the Indian company. "If the shares are offered to us, we’ll consider under the right terms and conditions"...

VoIP provider Skype says the mobile phone industry is not yet ready for the VoIP insurgency. Skype believes that the reason for this is the higher carrier charges stated by the mobile service providers. Skype’s services survive only with broadband connectivity and does...

Huawei and KPN Mobile have revealed that Huawei’s circuit and packet switched network equipment has been successfully introduced into KPN Mobile’s network. Huawei’s mobile softswitch product was selected to expand the capacity of the core network in the Circuit...

Samsung has developed a one Gigabit (Gb) Mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) for mobile products, using 80nm process technology. The new chip, also known as low-power Double Data Rate (DDR) or synchronous DRAM, will be more cost effective than other...

Opera, the free web based browser has tied up with South Koreas’ Samsung electronics to bundle its Opera Mobile browser in Samsung mobile phones.

Vodafone of Britain has finally decided to jump into the fray to acquire the Indian assets of Hutchison Whampoa. The company is said to be worth USD 13.5 billion and is a premium player in India.

In a bid to boost its line of mobile phones-iPaq, HP has decided to to acquire Bitfone Corp., a developer of software applications to allow mobile phone makers to manage wireless mobile devices.