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Nokia appointed its CFO as head of its low-end phones business one day after the handset maker reported its worst quarterly results since the company began quarterly reporting in 1996. Nokia s    

Sony Ericsson's troubles continued in the third quarter, with the struggling handset maker posting its fifth straight quarterly loss and showing weakness in several key metrics. The joint venture between J    

Erick Schonfeld submits: During Google’s (GOOG) third quarter earnings conference call Thursday, one message came out loud and clear: Google’s mobile strategy is starting to pay off. &ld    

Mobile growth is continuing unabated, with global mobile subscriptions expected to reach 4.6 billion by the end of 2009, and mobile broadband subscriptions to top 600 million, having overtaken fixed broadband s    

The worldwide telecoms market will grow at a 6% CAGR to reach US$2.4 trillion in revenues in 2013, according to Analysys Mason. This growth will be driven by mobile data services. Communication service provider    

Compal Communications began to ship webOS-based Pixi smartphones to Palm at the end of September, with the shipment volume for fourth-quarter 2009 expected to reach 700,000-800,000 units, according to industry    

Shipments of open source Symbian handsets are expected to more than double over the next five years, according to Juniper Research. However, the platform faces strong competition in a smartphone marketplace whi    

Aiming to fend off increasing competition from rival vendors in the smartphone segment, Nokia has reportedly released RFI (request for information) requirements on ODM production of Maemo-based smartphones from    

LTE chip maker Altair Semiconductor is predicting that the first LTE handsets will be commercial in the second half of next year, but that the devices will not gain mass market appeal until 2012. Once they do r    

Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) reached a monthly shipment volume of two million AMOLED panels in July 2009, according to the company.