AFP - Indian mobile phone giant Bharti announced Monday a 10.7-billion-dollar bid to buy the African unit of Kuwait's Zain telecom as it seeks to enter one of the world's last high-growth markets.

AFP - Microsoft unveiled on Monday an upgrade to its mobile operating system as the US software giant seeks to regain lost ground in the competitive handset market.

Reuters - Twenty-four telecom operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that will deliver applications to all mobile phone users in an effort to compete with Apple's successful apps store.

AFP - Microsoft unveiled on Monday an upgrade to its mobile operating system as the US software giant seeks to regain lost ground in the competitive handset market.

AP - Apple Inc. rocked the wireless business by combining the functions of a phone and an iPod. Now, more than two years later, Microsoft Corp. has its comeback: phone software that works a lot like its own Zune media player.

Reuters - Nokia and Intel said they are teaming up in top-end smartphone software and Microsoft finally unveiled its new phone operating system, Windows Phone 7, as they race to keep up with Apple and Google.

Reuters - Nokia's services unit chief Niklas Savander said he is more confident than before on the unit's 2011 revenue target due to a strong take-up by phone buyers of the company's free satellite navigation offering.