Motorola Inc posted a bigger quarterly profit in the second quarter as it cut costs and shipped more cell phones than expected, sending its shares up 7.6 percent.
Palm Inc has fired another volley at Apple Inc in their smartphone war, as the two rivals tussle over whether iTunes should be compatible with Palm's new Pre smartphone.
Research In Motion looks like an odd suitor for Nortel Networks' mobile network equipment unit but the deal could help the BlackBerry smartphone maker plug gaps in its technology patent portfolio.
Research In Motion Ltd said on Monday Nortel Networks had effectively blocked the BlackBerry maker from bidding potentially $1.1 billion for the bankrupt Canadian company's wireless business.
The world's top cellphone maker Nokia cut on Thursday its forecast for second half profitability and 2009 market share at its key phone unit, sending its shares sharply lower. Nokia said its second-half underlying operating profit margin at its key phone unit would be at the first-half level of 11.3 percent. It had earlier forecast a second-half margin of 13-19 percent.
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson posted a second-quarter pretax loss in line with expectations on Thursday and repeated its forecast for the global handset market to contract at least 10 percent this year.
Google Inc plans to attack Microsoft Corp's core business by taking on the software giant's globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers.
Google is preparing to launch an operating system for personal computers next year, taking direct aim at the dominance of Microsoft Corp's Windows franchise.
NEC Corp, grappling with a steep drop in mobile phone sales in Japan, said on Monday it could resume overseas sales of cellphones next year, three years after losses forced it to pull out of China and Europe.
Apple Inc said it had sold more than 1 million of its newest iPhone in the first three days of launch, beating analysts' expectations for the 3GS smartphone's debut.
Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, the company said Monday, making it the most successful model yet.
Apple Inc said it had sold more than 1 million of its newest iPhone in the first three days of launch, beating analysts' expectations for the 3GS smartphone's debut.
Tennis fans at Wimbledon will be able to keep up with the action using a smartphone application developed by IBM, which it said could transform the way spectators access information at sporting events.
Apple Inc's latest iPhone hit stores on Friday with new features and faster speeds, drawing plenty of fans, if not the crowds that had swarmed the previous iPhone debuts.
For the third consecutive summer, Apple rolled out a new phone, and for the third consecutive summer, crowds headed out to buy it - though the turn out was not as large in number as they had in the past.
Apple is gearing for its widely-anticipated launch of its latest iPhone 3G S on Friday leaving analysts speculating on how the handset will perform in terms of sales.
The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, unveiled new phones on Monday, offering features comparable to iPhone and Pre, but at lower prices.
The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung, unveiled new phone models on Monday, offering features comparable to iPhone and Palm's Pre, but at lower prices.
The world's two largest cell phone makers, Nokia and Samsung, unveiled on Monday new phone models, offering features comparable to iPhone and Palm's Pre, but at lower prices.
Worldwide cell phone sales fell in the first quarter of this year, while smartphones continued to grow with Apple's iPhone more than doubling its market share from , according to a report published by Gartner Wednesday.
Global cellphone sales fell 9.4 percent in the first quarter of 2009 as consumers reined in spending amid the recession, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.
Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15 percent in 2009, said Lee Williams, chief of the Symbian Foundation, the consortium of companies around the world's most popular smartphone operating system.
