Around the web news tagged Communications

"The craze in Asia for downloading personalised ring tones, games and pop hits on to mobile phones has rapidly developed into a multi-billion-dollar industry."

Savaje to oust Symbian, Microsoft (Jul 7)

Redback sees revenue down on telecom, Asia weakness

Sasken powering 3G handsets (Jul 4)

"Sasken has said that its multimedia component technology is to be provided for NEC 3G FOMA phones that will be sold by Japan's DoCoMo."

Hutchison delays 3G network launch in HK (Jul 4)

Motorola wins US$80 million CDMA contract from China Unicom (Jul 4)

South Korea boosts broadband research to help telecoms recovery (Jul 4)

Haier plans to expand South Carolina plant capacity (Jul 3)

Metrowerks and Motorola join forces to target wireless device markets based on the Linux operating system (Jul 3)

Newcomers take on Nokia, Motorola (Jul 3)

Handet manufactures in Taiwan and Israel are eroding Nokia and Motorola's market shares by contracting with service providers around the world.

NEC hopes more telecom firms use i-mode (Jul 3)

Gartner projects more than 71,000 public wireless hot spots in 2003 (Jul 3)

Nanotube display licensing already under discussion, says Moto

Optical MEMS branching out of telecom, says researcher

Broadcom 2Q earnings conference call

Vodafone: Services, not technology, will fuel growth (Jul 3)

VF Live! has signed up more than 1.5 million customers since October, generating on average 12% more ARPU than voice-centric GSM

BenQ expects higher 3Q sales as SARS fades (Jul 2)

Japan leaps to world No. 2 in broadband-survey (Jul 2)

Seiko Epson develops processor for camera phones (Jul 2)

AT&T Wireless to cut 1,000 more jobs (Jul 2)

Blueprint brews 3D band-gap crystals

Deal reached at telecom conference on WLAN spectrum allocation

Gartner says WLANs fair way away

Li Ka-shing lifts stake in Hutchison (Jul 2)

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Text-messaging struggles to get off the phone pad in US (Jul 2)

Japanese digital camera shipments surging this year (Jul 2)

No increase in telecoms investment before end 2004: Nokia head (Jul 2)

Nextel unit wins bid for WorldCom assets (Jul 2)

O2 announces future plans for XDA platform (Jul 1)

New features will include tri-band, digital camera and java support

Infineon, Siemens invest in DSP startup Sandbridge

Wavecom launches compact phones development lab (Jul 1)

Microsoft's second assault on smartphones (Jun 30)

Siemens takes Xelibri to China after good start in Hong Kong (Jul 1)

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Japanese bookstores desperate to stop 'digital shoplifting' with cellphones (Jul 1)

"Digital shoplifters – people who visit bookstores to photograph magazine pages with their cellphones rather than make a purchase."

No increase in telecoms investment before end 2004: Nokia head (Jul 1)

RealNetworks jumps onto Vodafone

Chunghwa overseas share sale reduced to 8% (Jun 30)

Nokia says wins over US$70 million Philippines contracts (Jun 30)

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