USDA sued over broadband loan program   31 May 2006 23:43 GMT
Mediacom accuses Department of Agriculture of granting low-interest loans to companies that aren't serving rural, underserved markets.
Source: ZDNet

Wi-Fi chip makers reach 100Mbps on 802.11n   31 May 2006 19:59 GMT
The companies that make the guts of many wireless LAN products have made their chipsets talk to each other at faster than typical wired network speed using a version of the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard.
Source: InfoWorld

Skype software to ship on Dell laptops   31 May 2006 19:38 GMT
New XPS M1210 and XPS M2010 notebooks will ship with Skype software that lets people talk for free over the Net.
Source: ZDNet

Fancy features don't sell phones in U.S.   31 May 2006 11:57 GMT
Advanced features aren't moving mobile phones off shelves in the U.S. even though more users are adopting them, according to a recent survey by research company J.D. Power and Associates.
Source: InfoWorld

Motorola needs an heir to the RAZR -Gartner (Reuters)   30 May 2006 23:05 GMT
Reuters - Motorola needs a successor to its successful RAZR phone to hold on to market share, and BenQ Mobile is set to make gains when new products kick in, market research group Gartner said in a survey on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo

Mobile Phones Can Become A Tool To Help Fight Spread Of Avian Flu (Investor's Business Daily)   30 May 2006 23:00 GMT
Investor's Business Daily - An old Chinese curse goes: "May you live in interesting times." It calls down wars, plagues and other disasters on the heads of the accursed.
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Next-generation Wi-Fi tech to deliver IPTV   30 May 2006 22:38 GMT
TV set-top makers plan to use Airgo's latest wireless technology to distribute video over Wi-Fi links throughout the home.
Source: ZDNet

New Nokia head promises both continuity and change (AFP)   30 May 2006 19:34 GMT

AFP - Jorma Ollila, Nokia's chief executive who turned the Finnish industrial group into the world's biggest mobile phone maker, hands over the reins on Thurdsay to his deputy Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who has hinted that acquisitions may be in the offing.

Source: Yahoo

Putting the 'motor' in Motorola   30 May 2006 18:55 GMT
Q&A CEO Ed Zander and the Razr have helped turn around the venerable company. Now he's looking to a phone called Q to keep things going.
Source: ZDNet

Vodafone posts record 21.9-billion-pound loss in 2005/06 (AFP)   30 May 2006 18:43 GMT

AFP - Vodafone, the world's leading mobile phone company, announced the biggest annual net loss in British corporate history owing to the write-down of assets bought at the height of the telecoms bubble.

Source: Yahoo