There are some stories going around about the iPhone sales numbers, apparently started by an Inquirer piece based on bad maths. Ars technica has done a good piece analysing various…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007, and the full year of 2007. For Q407, Motorola had sales of $9.65 billion (down 18.2…

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USA Today has a detailed piece on Skyhook Wireless, the company behind the technology which finds a location by triangulating WiFi signals which Steve Jobs promoted in his MacWorld keynote.…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…

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Dutch company Polymer Vision announced plans to launch its Readius device—a mobile phone with a large screen which folds out to become an e-reader—in the middle of this year. “Readius…

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Kyocera says it will buy Sanyo’s handset division in a deal worth $467 million. After subtracting cash and making other adjustments, the purchase could cost the company around $375 million.…

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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, which made its fortune selling Windows Mobile devices, has announced that it has sold 2 million Touch handsets, the touch-screen iPhone-resembling Windows Mobile-running device developed to…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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Samsung has reported its fourth quarter earnings, and as expected its handset business is doing well. Samsung sold 46.3 million handsets in Q4, an increase of 41 percent year-on-year. For…

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One of the criticisms against the iPhone was that it would have a small user base and therefore wouldn’t be worth developing for, but as every mobile content company knows…

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SprintNextel has used CES to reassure people that it is still committed to its Xohm WiMax network by announcing a lot of partnerships...services, devices and ad agencies. Reuters has a…

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The first iPhone Trojan has been found in the wild, notes ZDNet UK. It does some damage when users try to uninstall it, but the repairs are pretty simple: “Affected…

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Intel (NSDQ: INTC) is continuing its push to get ultra-mobile personal computers to a decent sales volume, planning to ship processors and associated chipsets that are smaller and use less…

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-- PSP Mobile: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment announced today that it had partnered up with Skype to turn the PlayStation Portable (PSP) into a device that could make and…

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-- Motorola has released a couple of handsets, its big hope for regaining marketshare. Motorola’s latest version of its Rokr handset, Rokr E8, takes a page out of Apple’s book.…

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To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…

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While many other countries around the world have generally harmonized the radio spectrum they use for mobile phones, the US has generally marched to its own beat. This was again…

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A couple of press articles have written that handset manufacturers like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) have been forced into the mobile services market by…

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Version 7 of Windows Mobile, the next major release of the platform, will get a full-featured version of Internet Explorer 6 in an attempt to compete with the Safari browser…

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--Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) New N-Gage Pre-Release Next Week: Nokia will launch the new iteration of its N-Gage mobile gaming platform next week, with a “pre-release” version featuring “one or more”…

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Some more details of *Nokia*’s Comes With Music service have come to light ... the DRM will be WMA, and the tracks will be 192kbps and 128kbps. The songs can…

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) appears to be getting some traction in business, because gadget-loving tech-heads are buying them and the IT department is accommodating that. “This isn’t necessarily iPhone deployment by…

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The biggest criticism Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has received concerning the iPhone is the exclusive deals that lock the phone to a particular carrier. The complaint generally centers around “open” being…

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O2 seems pleased with its iPhone deal, saying that sales have been in line with expectations. Matthew Key, incoming head of 02, said that: “Over time, three out of four…

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Another industry saved by the iPhone? Despite there being only about a million iPhones in the US (out of 250 million mobile phone users) Ad Age has rounded up some…

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