NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is losing Takeshi Natsuno, the mastermind behind its hit mobile web service i-Mode, according to AFP, citing a source within the company. Natsuno, 43, is supposed…

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Can China get it together with 3G in time for the Olympics? China Mobile Communications, parent company to the country’s largest mobile network China Mobile, will begin testing China’s homegrown…

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The Hong Kong-headquartered Chinese online and mobile media group Tom Group announced its 2007 financial results, and the once-profitable company is now operating at a loss and Tom Group Limited…

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What’s the Chinese government’s definition of spam? According to the State Council’s Office for Rectifying Malpractice, it’s a “wrongdoing…which is profit-seeking in defiance of public interests,” for the Nasdaq-traded Chinese…

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This is an about-face for NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), which has always sold on its extra data and content features: the Japanese operator will sell some stripped-down phones without data…

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The European Commission has thrown its complete weight behind mobile TV standard DVB-H, but that still might not make mobile TV a success in Europe, reports IDG. First off, there’s…

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China Mobile’s has been on a growth streak for some time. IDG News reports the country’s largest operator--and indeed the world’s--China Mobile grew by 68.1 million new subscribers last year--about…

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A mixed bag for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Just a day after Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) warned that sales of mobile handsets were slowing, and a week after Texas…

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Mobile entertainment company Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is investing 10 million euros ($15.5 million) to upgrade its mobile social network BING.  First launched in June 2007 in South Africa and Austria…

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While most Japanese users have advanced handsets capable of surfing the Internet, watching TV and other high-end applications, tons of U.S. users are still trying to wean themselves off of…

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Another big win for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant announced today that it had struck a deal with Chinese mobile phone wholesaler China Postel to supply $2 billion…

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Chinese mobile content provider Hurray has nixed its planned $160 million merger with TV production company Enlight. The two companies said in November that they would combine, melding their various…

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South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Citigroup, the US’s largest bank, launched a joint venture today to offer mobile financial services in select markets in Asia and…

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South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

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Following two failed MVNOs in the US, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has gone to Japan, where on Saturday, it launched an MVNO--Disney Mobile--with Softbank, the country’s third largest operator. AFP reports…

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Has China Mobile been talking to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over iPhone—or hasn’t it? Reuters reports that China’s largest mobile operator by customer base said today it had not been in…

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Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has launched its mobile service in one of the biggest and most competitive mobile markets in the world: India. It has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement…

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Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging markets, drove worldwide phone sales to 1.15 billion last…

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Tokyo-based Morpho, a developer of mobile imaging technology, has raised an unspecified investment from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, Nokia’s VC arm. Established in 2004, the company has developed technology…

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The mobile phone is too complex for users to feel comfortable using them to buy physical goods, however, consumers in the U.S. and the U.K., say they are likely to…

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Growth in the U.S. telecom industry will accelerate a whole percentage point to 9.3 percent in 2008 over last year and is unlikely to be significantly impacted by a broader…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

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David Collier, who runs a mobile content provider in Tokyo called Pikkle, told developers today at GDC Mobile how Japanese game developers are avoiding two of the industry’s biggest headaches—sharing…

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Shipments of handsets that run Japan’s mobile digital TV service OneSeg has hit 20 million less than two years after its launch, reports IDG News. According to Japan’s Telecommunications Carrier…

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NYT discovers that the 1.4 million missing iPhones (not registered on their respective networks in U.S. and Europe) have landed up in, lo and behold, China. Well, a lot of…

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