NTT DoCoMo in talks on Android-based cell phone   24 Jan 2008 13:24 GMT
Japan's biggest mobile telecom carrier gave its strongest support yet to Google's Android platform on Thursday when it said it is considering a cell phone based on the technology.
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Nokia's profits jump, market share grows to 40 percent (Reuters)   24 Jan 2008 12:54 GMT
Reuters - Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share in the October-to-December quarter, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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Phones, flat-panel TVs spark LG's profit (AP)   24 Jan 2008 10:27 GMT
AP - LG Electronics said Thursday its fourth-quarter net profit was more than 12 times greater than earnings in the same period a year ago amid record mobile phone sales and a turnaround in its flat panel subsidiary.
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Nokia chief confirms plant to close (AP)   24 Jan 2008 08:44 GMT

AP - Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview published Thursday that the company will not change its decision to shut a mobile phone manufacturing plant in Bochum, Germany, despite widespread protests and possible damage to Nokia's image.

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YouTube to feature on wider range of mobile phones (Reuters)   24 Jan 2008 08:09 GMT
Reuters - Popular video Web site YouTube.com is opening up its service to run on millions more phones which are capable of using high-speed wireless links, the company said on Thursday.
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Glu Mobile offers to buy Superscape to gain scale in US market for cell games (Canadian Press)   24 Jan 2008 00:41 GMT
Canadian Press - NEW YORK - Glu Mobile Inc., a leading U.S. publisher of games for cellphones, offered to buy British rival Superscape Group PLC on Wednesday for about US$36 million.
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Qualcomm results show strong demand (Reuters)   24 Jan 2008 00:25 GMT
Reuters - Qualcomm Inc posted an 18 percent rise in quarterly profit and gave an outlook that matched analyst estimates, driving its shares up more than 7 percent on relief the weak U.S. economy was not hurting demand for its mobile phone chips.
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FCC auction draws repeat entrepreneurs   23 Jan 2008 20:08 GMT
A handful of people who bid in the disastrous C-Block PCS auction in 1996 plan to participate in the upcoming 700MHz contest despite warning signs indicating the potential for similar troubles.
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India adds 8 million mobile subscribers in December   23 Jan 2008 18:05 GMT
India added 8.2 million mobile subscribers in December, taking the number of mobile connections in the country to 234 million by the end of the month.
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Mitec Telecom sells cellphone tower amplifiers to U.S. network operator (Canadian Press)   23 Jan 2008 16:28 GMT
Canadian Press - MONTREAL - Mitec Telecom Inc. (TSX:MTM) has announced a "milestone" sale of tower-mounted amplifiers to an unidentified North American wireless network operator over the next two years.
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