TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has inked deals or is close to signing deals with service providers to sell the iPhone in Norway, Sweden, Latin America, and Singapore. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - OmniVision's new image sensor wants to increase the number of pixels on your cell phone without increasing its profile. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The upcoming 3G iPhone and its competitors have some industry experts even saying traditional cell phones are going the way of the dinosaur. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - It's hard to find anyone more gung-ho in Russia about 3G wireless broadband services than Leonid Melamed. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Google's eye-catching demonstration of an early Android-enabled mobile phone Wednesday appeared to mimic Apple's iPhone. But Google officials downplayed the notion that they will face off against iPhone in the handset market. -- read full article
AP - Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go. -- read full article
Reuters - Russia's largest
cellphone operator, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) , plans to
spend up to $1.6 billion on a third-generation (3G) network in
Russia through to 2012, it said on Wednesday. -- read full article
PC World - Carriers are scrambling to reduce early-termination fees for mobile phone plans due to FCC interest, but you can end run fees by playing one company against another. -- read full article
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.
AP - Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest mobile phone company by sales, announced the surprise resignation of chief executive Arun Sarin on Tuesday as it posted a return to full-year profitability. -- read full article
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.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - LG Electronics, the world's No.4
handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia amid talk the
top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices and re-enter
the South Korean market -- read full article
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.
