The pending acquisition of Motorola's mobile telecom equipment arm by Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which is pending approval by China's Ministry of Commerce, would make it more difficult for domestic rivals Huawei Technologies and ZTE to enter the US market, an analyst said.

Nokia sued Apple on Thursday in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that the U.S. technology company used 13 of its patents, including a basic touch-screen maneuver, without its permission.

Nokia India and IBM will offer a solution for Nokia business phones to get direct, secure access to email and personal information through IBM Domino servers.

Nokia plans to offer severance packages worth 5-15 months of regular salary but hopes some of the employees affected will be relocated elsewhere in the company.

Nokia has warned that another of its new range of smartphones will be delayed, highlighting the difficulties facing the Finnish group as it struggles to regain lost ground in the fast-growing smartphone market.

Nokia is attempting to shore up its defences against smartphone rivals with a cost-cutting programme that will see the number of UK service centres cut by a third.

Nokia has said it will stick with Symbian as its main business-phone platform even when MeeGo, the handset-maker's new top-end operating system, is released.

Nokia and HTC said they persuaded a court to void parts of a mobile phone patent that IP holding company IPCom GmbH claimed the two device makers infringed.

According to a Nokia Siemens Networks blog post on Tuesday, iOS 4.2 - released on 22 November - introduced support for Network Controlled Fast Dormancy, which Nokia Siemens has implemented on the network side and Nokia started building into its smartphones earlier this year.

Nokia Siemens Networks revealed Tuesday that the company had conducted tests confirming that the iOS 4.2 update for iPhone supports its Network Controlled Fast Dormancy technology, which minimizes network congestion and improves battery life.

Jobs is recruiting lawyers who have fought for and against some of the world's largest companies, including Microsoft, Intel and Broadcom. Broadcom won a patent dispute with Qualcomm last year that ended with Qualcomm paying $891 million in cash over four years.

AMD said it has joined open source MeeGo project, led by rival Intel and Nokia.

Nokia reabsorbs Symbian, and Microsoft ships Windows Phone 7 -- two big yawns. How they became the mobile industry's elephants in the room.

A good interview with Jo Harlow, the head of Nokia's smartphone business. ZDNet UK spoke to Harlow at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 and talked about Nokia's plans for the world's most widely deployed smartphone platform.

Nokia has taken over the Symbian Foundation and announced plans to downsize it and turn it into a licensing organization.

Nokia Oyj shouldn't be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.'s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission said as a trial started.

MeeGo 1.1 was released on Monday. This is the official call to device makers and developers to build us a new class of Linux-based Intel Atom and ARMv7 devices. Version 1.1 includes a user interface for smartphones and for netbooks but not for tablets. This didn't stop yet another round of rumors over a Nokia MeeGo tablet.

Believe it or not, your phone battery's capacity to hold charge is just part of the problem -- a bigger monster lurks within the telecom operator, and the phone having to stay constantly in touch with it.

The Finnish giant is hoping its new flagship N8 smartphone will help it fight back, but PV World remains unconvinced and listed the reasons why Symbian sucks.

Intel on Thursday said Nokia smartphones based on the Linux-based MeeGo OS under joint development by Intel and Nokia won't appear until 2011.

It has only been a few months since Apple's iAds went live, but the service is taking away shares from perennial mobile-advertising leaders Google, Microsoft, and Nokia.

Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia could have achieved dominance over the smartphone market, if its executives hadn't rejected the first smartphone.

Nokia executives says "Nokia is back!". Everyone else "Sure?"

If rumors are true then these will be the first Motorola dual SIM handsets available in Europe. After Nokia launched its own C1 and C2 dual SIM feature-phones a few months ago, Motorola will be among the few important brands that are releasing dual SIM phones in Europe.

Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will step down on September 20, and be succeeded by Microsoft Corp.'s Stephen Elop.