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With the smartphone market expected to outshine the overall mobile phone market for the foreseeable future, the growing influence of new devices and platforms, including Apple, RIM, Android, Palm, etc. and the    

Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) has completed a draft proposal for the release of two national mobile TV operating licenses in Taiwan in 2010, according to a Chinese-language    

Andy Beal submits: Forrester continues to examine the intersection of mobile phones and social networking. One startling–or maybe not–statistic: 10% of us access social networks from our cel    

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