TECHNOLOGY

The new touchscreen HTC Magic is the phone maker's sleek second attempt at integrating Google's mobile phone Android operating system.

Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, expects to sell at least 50 percent more of its Atom chips for netbooks and other mobile Internet devices this year than it did last year, the head of that unit said.

Top cell phone maker Nokia will use Qualcomm's chips in its advanced cell phones, the firms said on Tuesday, marking a further warming of ties between the former courtroom rivals.

Flash memory maker SanDisk aims to boost sales of memory cards to store music and video on their mobile phones by tailoring their cards to highlight the offerings of individual network operators.

Chipmaker Freescale, which began making chips for small netbook laptop computers last month, plans to expand its offering to include chipsets for Google's Android operating system by next quarter.

Internet calling company Skype has secured a deal with Nokia under which the world's biggest phone maker will preload Skype software into some of its new smartphones starting from the third quarter of this year.

Telecom industry leaders including Nokia, China Mobile and Microsoft raced to announce online software stores on Monday in a drive to find new sources of revenue and please consumers.

to account for 10 percent of revenue by 2012, as lines between portable PCs and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones start to blur. The smartphone market has become increasingly crowded in the last two years, with Apple, Research in Motion and HTC winning market share at the expense of top smartphone provider Nokia. We genuinely believe that we can be actually one of the top five. Over ti...

Mobile industry executives at the sector's biggest annual fair are under no illusion as to how tough this year will be, with even the world's largest operator, China Mobile, feeling the impact.

HONG KONG - A Chinese woman who freaked out at Hong Kong's international airport after missing her flight has hit the big time on YouTube after her hysterics were filmed and uploaded to the video sharing website. The middle-aged woman was seen charging at a security guard at the departure gate, before screaming aieyyahhhhh, at the top of her lungs in a rant that lasts about three minutes. ...

to be ready for customers later this year and in commercial products in 2010. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd recently launched a phone, costing roughly $500, in South Korea using the first version of TI's pico-projector technology that beams video or photographs from a phone to any surface. Samsung also plans to sell a similar device in Europe but has not released pricing. TI said interest in its ...

WASHINGTON - Charging customers higher rates as they use bigger swaths of bandwidth is a policy that makes sense, the chief executive of Frontier Communications Corp, a rural telecommunications company, said on Monday. It is important that customers that use less don't subsidize those that use the most, Maggie Wilderotter, the chairman and CEO of Frontier, told a group of state utility regu...

WASHINGTON - The $7.2 billion in funding to promote high-speed Internet in the stimulus package is just the first step in the Obama administration's effort to fuel expansion of telecommunications services, an adviser to the president said on Monday. Despite new federal money, the amount is but a fraction of what is needed to establish the United States in terms of broadband versus other dev...

NEW YORK - Giving people with type 2 diabetes the opportunity to help manage their care online can substantially improve their long-term blood sugar control, new research suggests. Clinic visits alone aren't enough for many people with diabetes, Dr. James D. Ralston of the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle and colleagues note in the journal Diabetes Care. The researchers tested whether an In...

denied the charges. The group that controls The Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, says that since no copyrighted material is stored on its servers and no exchange of files actually takes place there, they cannot be held responsible for what material is being exchanged. The prosecution says that by financing, programing and administering the site, the four men promoted the infringement of property r...

has already shipped its pared-down Flash Lite video player in almost 1 billion mobile phones. Last year, almost 40 percent of all new mobile devices shipped contained Flash Lite, and Adobe said it expects to ship another 1.5 billion in the next two years. (Reporting by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Hans Peters)

Microsoft said on Monday it had signed a deal with LG Electronics, under which the world's third-largest cellphone maker will use Windows software in most of its smartphones.

GENEVA - Mobile telephones are seen as a basic necessity around the world and should enjoy persistent strong demand throughout an economic downturn, a United Nations agency said in a report published on Monday. With or without a recession, millions of people in India, China, Nigeria, and other emerging markets will seek out mobile phones, according to the International Telecommunication ...

GENEVA - Mobile telephones are seen as a basic necessity around the world and should enjoy persistent strong demand throughout an economic downturn, a United Nations agency said in a report published on Monday. With or without a recession, millions of people in India, China, Nigeria, and other emerging markets will seek out mobile phones, according to the International Telecommunication ...

to grow 18 percent to $67 billion this year. Apple's App Store has proved to be popular with iPhone users, and helped spawn an entire industry of entrepreneurs who design the programs which can then be downloaded by consumers. Apple said last month a total of 15,000 applications are available and downloads have hit 500 million in six months. Microsoft Corp is also planning an online bazaar...

aimed to sell 40-45 million phones in 2009, compared with 33 million last year. Chen also said the company would introduce commercially a phone model using next generation Long Term Evolution technology late this year or early next.

to be ready for customers later this year and in commercial products in 2010. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd recently launched a phone, costing roughly $500, in South Korea using the first version of TI's pico-projector technology that beams video or photographs from a phone to any surface. Samsung also plans to sell a similar device in Europe, but has not released pricing. TI said interest in its...

Acer Inc, the world's third-largest PC brand, entered the increasingly crowded smartphone market on Monday with the unveiling of its first eight models at the World Mobile Congress trade show in Barcelona.

Software giant Microsoft is in talks to buy Israel's 3DV Systems, a maker of three-dimensional video imaging, financial website TheMarker.com reported on Tuesday.

has already shipped its pared-down Flash Lite video player in almost 1 billion mobile phones. Last year, almost 40 percent of all new mobile devices shipped contained Flash Lite, and Adobe said it expects to ship another 1.5 billion in the next two years. (Reporting by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Hans Peters)

SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to at least 10 percent this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said. As shrinking consumer demand hits the mobile industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year, but still targets a high single-digit percent profit margin on mobiles, against 11 perce...

SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to at least 10 percent this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said. As shrinking consumer demand hits the mobile industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year, but still targets a high single-digit percent profit margin on mobiles, against 11 perce...

SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc , the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to 10 percent or higher this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said. As shrinking consumer demand hits the cellphone industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year but is still targeting a high-single-digit percent profit margin o...

Computer software giant Microsoft has announced plans to open its own stores, in a bid to increase competition against Apple and at a time when many other retailers are struggling in the economic downturn.