Big news broke Tuesday when Nokia announced that it will purchase the remaining stock it doesn't own in Symbian and then migrate the solution to an "Open" platform. "This is a significant milestone in our software strategy" said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia in a statement. The Finnish communications giant...

Nokia said Monday it is to acquire Plazes a social-activity service provider. The deal will see the communications colossus gain access to Plazes context-aware social activity service that consumers use to plan, record and share their activities...

Huawei Technologies confidently stated last week that it expects its sales contracts in Asia Pacific (AP) excluding China to reach USD 3.9 billion by the end of this year. The Taiwan based telecommunications network provider...

China and Thailand have been identified as two key markets showing growing interest in location-based services (LBS) and GPS navigation offerings on their mobile phones. A study conducted by market research firm Profacts...

Internet behemoth Yahoo said Tuesday that it has entered into strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Maxis Communications Berhard in Malaysia and Idea Cellluar in India. The deal will see both mobile operators carry a variety of graphical advertisements, sold and served by Yahoo...

Wireless broadband in all its forms---fixed, portable, and mobile--gives operators a way to grow revenues as voice revenue growth slows, reports In-Stat. Based on survey data collected by the high-tech market research firm...

Speculation about what Apple's new iPhone will look like is over. The widely anticipated 3G iPhone was the centerpiece of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Monday in San Francisco - it is thinner, faster, more open, location aware and even less expensive...

Verizon Wireless made headlines Thursday revealing that it will buy out Alltel for a price tag of USD 28.1 billion, boosting its market share and usurping AT&T as the largest mobile phone network in the US...

At the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Marketplace Tuesday Microsoft Corp. announced the Connected Services Accelerator Program, a series of projects designed to incubate, and ultimately commercialize, new types of consumer...

The recent raft of announcements made by the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance indicate that incumbent smartphone OS software vendors will soon face a serious challenge, deriving from two technically competent and coalesced Linux consortia...

With just about everything going mobile these days, Cisco has set in motion, its new vision for business mobility that aims to deliver solutions that integrate devices, applications, security and disparate networks into a unified platform...

As categories of mobile devices converge, there are four primary types of productivity tools-the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), the mobile Internet device (MID), smartphones, and smartphones with mobile companions..

Mobile social networks are quite popular with the Millennial generation, just as social networking is says high tech market research firm In-Stat.In fact, Web 2.0 tools such as blogging, photo and video sharing...

The market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2013. According to ABI Research the RFID business has been forecasted to grow...

Nearly 74% of U.S. consumers agree that mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to only silent features according to a new Yahoo survey. The study commissioned by Yahoo! Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive clearly...

Research In Motion (RIM), RBC and Thomson Reuters have announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a USD 150 million venture capital fund, that’s seeks to invest in mobile applications and services for all mobile platforms including the BlackBerry.

Apple has inked deals to bring its much coveted mobile phone device, the iPhone to the Asian region, namely Singapore, India, Australia and the Philippines, “by the end of the year.” To push sales and ensure the set target of selling 10 million units by the end of 2008...

At JavaOne 2008 this week, Sun Microsystems delved deeper into JavaFX, a platform for creating visually oriented applications that can be leveraged in the increasing consumer application space.Seen as the systems company’s latest push into the rich internet applications (RIA) world...