Motorola Inc. has announced that Verizon Wireless will start selling its Q handset, the first in its series of smart phones to compete Research in Motion’s Balckberry. Motorola said customers can buy it online from 31st of May or at any Verizon Wireless...

Sony Ericsson has introduced five new mobile phones line-up, including two Walkman phones, two flip phones and one with the capability of recognising handwritten Chinese-character. The joint venture company has already released more than 20 new models, so far this year...

IT research firm In-Stat predicts that the global market for wireless handsets will grow 23 percent to USD 136 billion in 2006, and may exceed USD 250 billion in 2011. In-Stat said the wireless market has reached USD 110 billion in 2005...

About 50 percent of the network equipment provider (NEP) community will adopt advanced telecommunications architecture (ATCA) in parts of their product line by 2007, said IDC in a survey. The survey predicts that more than 900 percent growth in ATCA adoption with revenue increasing from USD 790 million in 2007 to USD 8.6 billion in 2011...

HP has introduced a range of products and services designed to make it easy for businesses and consumers to enjoy mobile computing. For mobile and network service providers, the company also announced it is developing advanced mobile networking technologies designed to create a...

BlackBerry users around the world, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. This development is the result of an expanded strategic global alliance between Yahoo! Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM). "Our Yahoo! users want to access our services from all of their connected devices...

Thailand-based mobile software company Vervata has rolled out an application, FlexiSpy, for Symbian mobile phones to capture call logs, text messages and mobile Internet activity. Vervata advertises the software as a tool to monitor kids and unfaithful...

Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 6708, a compact business device featuring pen-based touch-screen input and English/simplified Chinese language handwriting recognition. The Nokia 6708 is expected to be commercially available from Q2 2006 in selected Asia Pacific markets...

Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 816.6 million units in 2005, a 21 percent increase from 2004, as the leading six vendors increased their share of the market at the detriment of smaller vendors, according to Gartner, Inc. The top six vendors accounted for 79.4 percent of worldwide...

As demand for advanced mobile devices accelerates, the battle between mobile OS vendors will intensify with market-leader Symbian gradually losing share to both Microsoft's Mobile Windows and Linux, according to new research from The Diffusion Group...

Today's cell phones pack as much processing power as personal computers did just a few years ago. This prompted Bill Gates to make a remark that hints at giving the world’s poor cell phones and not PCs. The only thing that’s missing is the range of software that PC users enjoy...

More than four in five Chinese wireless developers use Java some of the time, according to Evans Data’s Winter 2005 Chinese Wireless Development Survey. Twenty-five percent of Chinese wireless developers use Java for the majority of their wireless development...

Motorola has launched the highly anticipated SLVR L7 and RAZR V3i, a new version of the popular RAZR V3 handset. According to a company release, the new handsets provide consumers with two new ways to enjoy the Motorola mobile experience through technology advances - all while leveraging the worldwide success of the groundbreaking Motorola RAZR...

Intel has unveiled several NOR flash memory product offerings for the cellular and embedded market segments: Sibley (the first NOR MLC flash memory device), Naubinway (the next generation of Intel Flash Data Integrator), and Sixmile for the embedded market segment...