Flat-panel TVs, a music player with robotics technology and planned networking services for the PlayStation 3 video game console are a key part of Sony's growth following a nearly three-year restructuring effort.

A company representative confirmed a report earlier Wednesday by PalmInfocenter that the struggling company has begun informing employees of job cuts, just as the holiday season kicks into full gear.

The Japanese government is promoting the separation of handset and service charges as part of its new mobile business revitalization plan.

The prosecution has found three additional stock accounts in the name of a former Samsung Group insider.

Microsoft began displaying advertisements to mobile users of its MSN site in the US today.

The first free US inflight email and instant messaging service will launch next Tuesday aboard a JetBlue flight leaving Kennedy Airport in New York.

Nokia announced fresh investments of approximately US$75 million towards its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India, for the year 2008.

Total consumer tech revenue grew by just 6 percent to US$2.2 billion versus 2006; LCD TV, GPS and notebook computers show most positive sales results.

Verizon Wireless plans to support Google's new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices.

Samsung Electronics has introduced its first handset model equipped with Samsung SDI's 2.2-inch active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AM OLED) panel at a retail price of 599,000 won.

Apple is facing a patent lawsuit in a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas over the visual voicemail feature of its iPhone, litigant Klausner Technologies said Monday.

Up to a quarter of the entertainment consumed by people in five years time will have been created, edited and shared within their peer circle rather than coming out of traditional media groups, according to a study by Nokia.

Hits from Verizon Wireless and the European Commission are unlikely to break Qualcomm any time soon.

HTC's Libra smartphone, already in service with various regional carriers, is at last reaching the national level in the US through Verizon, a leak suggests.

Google announced hat it will apply to participate in the US Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band.

Motorola announced that its board of directors has elected Greg Brown as CEO of Motorola, effective January 1, 2008, succeeding Edward Zander as CEO.

European Union nations on Thursday asked the European Union not to call for a Nokia-backed mobile TV standard for Europe.