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Accelerating mobile PC shipments will drive the worldwide PC market to grow again in 2009, according to Gartner's preliminary fourth-quarter forecast. The new forecast predicts worldwide PC shipments will    

According to The NPD Group, buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers and other price reductions on smartphones led to a 3% decline in average prices in the third quarter of 2009. The overall average purchase price for han    

After hitting bottom in the first quarter of 2009, handset display shipments for the second quarter of 2009 reached 360 million units, up 30% sequentially and 3% on year, according to DisplaySearch. Revenues we    

Compal Communications will begin to use handset solutions, including 3G TD-SCDMA chips, from MediaTek for handset production, according to Compal chairman Ray Chen.    

Erick Schonfeld submits: When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple (AAPL) and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics rep    

The holiday shopping season is just around the corner, and wireless carriers are offering a seemingly endless parade of new phones to entice customers. Thanks to a recent partnership between Strategy A    

Edward Harrison submits:I want to take a break from banking and macro stuff and talk a little bit about technology. I wrote an article about Android a few weeks back. That was a more personal account on why I w    

Michael Arrington submits: Tuesday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google (GOOG) branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there&rs    

Nokia plans to stop using the Symbian platform by 2012 in its entire N-Series line of devices in favor of Maemo, according to a report on The Really Mobile Project blog.The blog, citing comments from Nokia'    

Michael Arrington submits: The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.The next