Reuters - Microsoft Corp expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as demand for smartphones rises rapidly.

Reuters - Canada's government launched an auction of wireless spectrum on Tuesday that it hopes will bolster competition and lower prices by allowing new players to break into the cellular phone market.

AFP - Mobile phone giant Vodafone announced Tuesday the surprise exit of chief executive Arun Sarin, who will quit on a high note after five years in charge as the group returned to profit.

AFP - Mobile phone giant Vodafone unveiled a 5.7-percent rise in operating profits on Tuesday and announced that chief executive Arun Sarin would step down at the end of July.

Reuters - Microsoft said on Tuesday it expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009.

Reuters - LG Electronics (066570.KS), the world's No.4 handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia (NOK1V.HE) amid talk the top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices and re-enter the South Korean market later this year.

AFP - A Japanese government panel called on parents and schools Monday to help limit the use of mobile phones by children to prevent them from accessing "harmful" information on websites.

Reuters - China will issue three licenses for high-speed third-generation mobile phone services and called for a merger of China Unicom and Netcom, two of its four biggest telecoms providers, in a long-awaited industry revamp.