Texas Instruments Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, opened a wireless technology center in South Korea on Tuesday aimed at developing wireless multimedia technologies that can deliver television and other content to handsets.

An unsolicited bulk email campaign for broadband and telephone calling rates may have flushed out a notorious U.S. spammer from a low-profile existence in Auckland.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will launch a Windows Mobile-based cell phone that packs an 8G-byte hard-disk drive, hitting European markets in the second half of 2006, the company said Monday.

IBM Corp. has collaborated with two universities to develop several speech-enabled Web applications for mobile phones, the company said Friday.

The flash memory chips popular in consumer devices from iPod music players to memory cards for digital cameras and mobile phones saved the DRAM (dynamic RAM) industry from a major collapse last year, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Monday.

Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. have basically agreed to merge their CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone businesses into a single company with a view to capturing the top share of the global CDMA market, they said Tuesday.

If you use a Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB mobile phone, you may want to disable the Bluetooth function, the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) warned this week, saying a security vulnerability potentially puts the phones at risk to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

The first cell phone to make use of Sony Corp.'s new Memory Stick Micro memory card format was unveiled by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB on Monday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. detailed on Monday its first cell phone for the European market that includes support for digital TV services.

DataViz Inc. planned to release a new version of its RoadSync 2 software on Monday that will let users of certain Symbian smart phones receive push e-email from corporate Microsoft Outlook accounts.

IDC reported on Thursday that high-end devices helped contribute to the shipment of 825 million mobile phones in 2005.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

Az Apple január 5-én az amerikai Szabadalmi Hivatalhoz fordult a Mobile Me szlogen levédetése céljából. Az elemzők szerint ez egyértgelmű jele annak, hogy a médialejátszók elsöprő sikere után az Apple most a mobiltelefonok piaca felé nyitna, integrálva az iPod szolgáltatásait a távközlés lehetőségeivel.