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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, said Monday it spent $45.5 million to take a 35 percent share in a U.S. company that makes multimedia technology for its mobile phones.

A sales assistant holds up a Nokia handset featuring a new mobile internet music download platform at a store in Hong Kong on June 18 enlarge The world's top cellphone maker Nokia has said it is not working on introducing a phone running on Google's Android operating system.

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South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and flat screen TVs, has forecast second-quarter earnings well above market estimates, driving its shares up more than 4 per cent.

The Symbian Foundation expects to begin beta testing of a new version of its mobile phone operating system within the next few weeks.

The cell phone companies have been a pampered lot. They are some of the most profitable business operations.

Los Angeles: The world's largest commercial satellite ever, meant for cellphones, was successfully launched Thursday, mobile communications provider TerreStar announced.

If you walked into the right RadioShack store in San Jose this weekend, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free.

Nearly one in three UK motorists want to see six-month driving bans for those using hand-held mobiles while at the wheel, a poll has revealed.

Orange, a UK ISP and mobile phone company, is reportedly close to signing a deal with an ad-supported mobile virtual network called Blyk that would offer certain Orange customers credits on their service in exchange for receiving text-based ads on their mobile phones.

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We wish that other places were as up to date technologically as Europe. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, RIM, Apple and other companies have joined with the European Union to standardize a universal USB cell phone charger next year.

Opponents of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went on the offensive Wednesday, proclaiming his government "illegitimate." They vowed to continue disputing his re-election despite a violent crackdown on their protests and dire warnings against challenging the vote.

According to the study conducted by Frost & Sullivan amongst European and Russian consumers, Nokia is the number one choice for mobile navigation over other leading handset manufacturers.

Posted in Mobile , 3rd July 2009 10:21A GMT Join our expert panel in discussing application security Internet watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation has hit out at a US music royalties collector, accusing it of making "outlandish copyright claims" about mobile phone ringtones.

In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009,... In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009, a live pigeon carrying a makeshift backpack containing a cell phone is shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A potential bidding war for mobile phone operator T-Mobile was in prospect today after reports said O2 owner Telefonica was eyeing the business.

Cisco will tackle the mobile world over the next year with a series of new features to bring smartphones into business communications, the head of the company's software group said at the Cisco Live conference on Wednesday.

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

The keys to economic growth in developing countries are the mobile phone and high speed Internet.