New Tools Support Mobile Web 2.0 Apps (PC World)   11 Feb 2008 07:01 GMT
PC World - Trolltech plans to announce on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has integrated QT, its development platform, with WebKit, the Web browser technology used by Apple, Nokia, Google, Motorola and others. The integration should make it easier for developers to build products that integrate online components into mobile phone applications.
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Music on mobiles found to be a favorite in China (Reuters)   11 Feb 2008 01:15 GMT

Reuters - More than a third of mobile phone owners in China, the world's largest mobile market, use their handsets to listen to music, more than in Britain or the United States, a study showed.

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Sony Ericsson Readies Windows Mobile Phone (PC World)   10 Feb 2008 23:13 GMT
PC World - Microsoft is expected to announce another partner on the eve of the Mobile World Congress.
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Nokia's migration shows Brussels' failure (FT.com)   10 Feb 2008 19:10 GMT
FT.com - Nokia, the mobile phone company, is standing by its decision to close its factory in Bochum, western Germany. About 2,300 employees are affected along with, according to trade union estimates, up to 2,000 jobs at suppliers and subcontractors. The Finnish company's decision has provoked indignation. The reasons for the public outrage are obvious: Nokia earns EU90,000 a year from each production worker - operating profit at Bochum runs at an annual EU134m. Nevertheless, production will now be shifted to Romania.
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Sony Ericsson unveils seven new phones (Reuters)   10 Feb 2008 19:01 GMT
Reuters - The world's fourth largest mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled seven new mobile phone models on Sunday, including one high-end cellphone using Microsoft's Windows Mobile software.
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Emerging markets shake up the old order in telecoms (FT.com)   10 Feb 2008 17:40 GMT
FT.com - Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian telecommunications entrepreneur, jokes that his most recent business plan - a 25-year licence to provide mobile phone services in North Korea - is one born of desperation.
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Gemalto, LG Partner To Build Advanced Mobile Phone (TechWeb)   08 Feb 2008 18:00 GMT
TechWeb - The phones, available later this year, will have a Web server embedded in a SIM card, which is accessed through a phone's browser.
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World's mobile phone industry heads for Barcelona (AFP)   08 Feb 2008 17:54 GMT

AFP - The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for the mobile phone industry.

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Modular Mobile Phone Offers Some Big Benefits (NewsFactor)   08 Feb 2008 17:17 GMT
NewsFactor - Like stereos and computers, the cell phone is moving toward components. An Israeli company, Modu, on Thursday debuted the first modular mobile phone.
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Alcatel-Lucent suffers Q4 loss on writedown (InfoWorld)   08 Feb 2008 14:07 GMT
InfoWorld - Alcatel-Lucent reported higher sales but a net loss for the fourth quarter due to a big writedown in its CDMA (code division multiple access) and IP (Internet protocol) multimedia services businesses.
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