Nov 27 2006
AFP - Brazilian wireless provider Claro, a unit of Latin American telecom giant America Movil, has reportedly agreed to buy Telecom Italia’s TIM mobile phone operations for eight billion euros.
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Nov 26 2006
NewsFactor - Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson and Japanese electronics maker Sony are moving their business relationship well beyond cell phones into the mobile and broadband TV space.
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Nov 24 2006
Reuters - Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Japan’s electronics giant Sony (6758.T) will expand their cooperation beyond cell phones to mobile and broadband TV, an Ericsson official said on Thursday.
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Nov 24 2006
Reuters - Struggling Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday it now expects to fall into the red this business year as it unveiled more job cuts amid weak sales of digital cameras and mobile phones.
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Nov 24 2006
Canadian Press - STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Watching television on cellphones will be a mass phenomenon in 2008, Sweden’s LM Ericsson predicted Thursday, saying the maker of telecommunications gear will work closely with Japan’s Sony Corp. to develop new media solutions for wireless connections.
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Nov 24 2006
AFP - Japan’s ailing Sanyo Electric Co. has torn up its forecast for a return to the black this year as it axed 2,200 more jobs and flagged a possible sale of its cellphone business amid fierce competition.
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Nov 23 2006
TechWeb - Samsung has developed what it claims is the world’s thinnest LCD panel for use in mobile phones by adopting the company’s newly developed mobile-display technology, dubbed i-Lens.
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Nov 23 2006
NewsFactor - Thin is in at Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant has announced a new LCD for mobile phones that, at 0.82 mm, is no thicker than a credit card.
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Nov 23 2006
PC World - Company says its mobile phone display is the thinnest ever.
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Nov 23 2006
Reuters - The European Union plans to widen the number of radio frequencies that can be used for 3G mobile networks, but an EU official said on Wednesday the most attractive bands for rural areas are not yet available.
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Nov 23 2006
AFP - The Finnish group Nokia was the world’s leading provider of mobile telephones in the third quarter, capturing 35.1 percent of the market after 32.5 percent in the same period last year, a study by the Gartner institute has revealed.
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Nov 23 2006
PC Magazine - An up-close look at the best phones in the world…and you can’t have any of them if you live in the U.S.
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Nov 23 2006
AP - Muslim clerics at a leading seminary in India have asked people to refrain from using verses from the Quran as ringtones for their mobile phones, saying the practice was un-Islamic.
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Nov 23 2006
TechWeb - The service stores messages on servers enabling users to access them from their PCs later, but it won’t operate with Verizon Wireless or Nextel handsets and users can’t download attachments to their phones.
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Nov 23 2006
Reuters - A start-up founded by a group of successful European entrepreneurs is set to bring e-mail, instant messaging and other communications services to low-cost mobile phones, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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