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Apple has relented after 16 months of dogged resistance to keep Google Voice app out of its Apps Store. Now the exiled app is here and available for iPhone users.

According to reports in tech websites, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 handsets sold 40,000 units on Monday, the day they were launched in the U.S.

Verizon has said it will not be Microsoft's Windows Phone 7's official carrier which is due to be launched this year.

Israeli start-up firm Tawkon has developed software to measure mobile telephone handset radiation aimed at helping users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones.

Sales of mobile phones rose 13.8 percent to 326 million units in the second quarter but average selling prices fell by more than expected amid intense competition, IT research firm Gartner said on Thursday.

Sprint Nextel Corp has been seeing shortages of its EVO high-speed phone from HTC Corp in some places due to better-than-expected demand, the company's chief executive, Dan Hesse, said on Tuesday.

British scientists who conducted the largest study yet into cell phone masts and childhood cancers say that living close to a mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing cancer.

Motorola Inc said on Thursday that it would launch a new phone based on Microsoft Corp software and that No. 3 U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel Corp will sell the phone to corporate customers.

They can call their wives and families back home but German players have no way of reaching team mates with their fancy new cell phones issued for the World Cup in South Africa, players said on Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp's Robbie Bach, head of its video games and mobile phones unit, is retiring in a management shuffle, as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tightens his grip over a division steadily ceding ground to rivals.

Microsoft Corp pushed out the chief of its division focused on mobile phones, videogames and other consumer devices on Tuesday, allowing two lower executives to report to Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft Corp is set to overhaul management of its division focused on mobile phones, videogames and other consumer devices, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Shares of Sprint Nextel could rise to about $6 a share, helped by the introduction of a mobile phone that works on the carrier's new high-speed network, according to business weekly Barron's.

Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first smartphone based on its own operating system in the next few weeks, as it seeks to catch up with bigger rivals in the booming high-end market.

Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first smartphone based on its own operating system in coming weeks, as it seeks to catch up with bigger rivals in the booming high-end market, an executive said on Wednesday.

In a significant research supported by the World Health Organization, evidence found excessive mobile phone users may be exposed to increased brain cancer risk, but the findings were not conclusive.

The world's biggest study of the health effects of mobile phones found that the top 10 per cent of the users are up to 40 per cent more likely to develop glioma, a common type of brain cancer.

Sprint Nextel said on Wednesday that HTC Corp's EVO, its most advanced high-speed wireless phone so far, would go on sale on June 4 for $199, a price it hopes will win back subscribers lost in the last few years to its bigger rivals.

Sprint Nextel said on Wednesday that HTC Corp's EVO, its most advanced high-speed wireless phone so far, would go on sale on June 4 for $199, a price it hopes will win back subscribers lost in the last few years to its bigger rivals.

Blackberry maker Research in Motion broke into the top five cellphone makers in January-March for the first time, helped by 50 percent growth in the global smartphone market. The global handset market has been dominated by five major players -- Nokia , Samsung , LG Electronics , Motorola and Sony Ericsson ...

Comcast Corp , the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, as it added Internet and phone subscribers.