Qualcomm has announced the opening of a new, multi-million dollar R&D center in Shanghai, which will focus on advancing chipset solutions to better address China's increasing need for high quality and affordable 3G handsets with customized features and time-to-market advantages.

Under the terms of the royalty bearing agreement, Qualcomm has granted CK Telecom a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell WCDMA and TD-SCDMA subscriber units and modem cards/modules.

Defying skeptics, iPhone sales tripled in the most recent quarter

Sony has reported a loss of 40.8 billion yen (US$437m) for the year to the end of March, less than half the loss it made the previous year.

The patent wars are raging in the mobile device market, and they could result in rising costs for handset makers and higher gadget prices for wireless carriers and consumers.

For Research in Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, staying No. 1 isn't about apps or fancy hardware, it's about cost effectiveness.

Apple questions research that says smartphones using Google's Android OS have surpassed iPhone sales in the US.

LG Electronics warned that profits at its struggling handset division would be slow to recover, as it retools its business to introduce Android-based devices in a fast-growing, high-end smartphone segment, including new models for Verizon.

At the Web 2.0 conference, Adobe is cheering for Android with demonstrations on Android devices, free Android phones for its employees and now, a demonstration of Flash running on an Android tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2.

In a research note to clients this week, Whitmore argues that HP needs some serious financial magic on Palm to make it EPS-neutral in 2011. Specifically, the company needs to triple revenues and double gross margins while keeping operating expenses flat.

Motorola's mobile phone division is on track to return to profitability in the fourth quarter of this year boosted by strong firstquarter sales of Google Android-powered smartphones.

Microsoft and HTC signed a patent deal involving HTC's mobile smartphones running the open source Android operating system

Although Apple and the iPhone get all the attention in the mobile market, it's still RIM and its ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphones that reign supreme in the corporate world.

South Korea's leading mobile company, SK Telecom, said Monday that it is planning to expand into the Chinese mobile game market beginning in the second half of this year

Dell and Telefonica will joint fores in developing "smart mobile products" and services,which would expand its smartphone business in Latin America and Europe.

After the telecom services players, it's the handset manufacturers' turn to eye the growing Rs 50,000 crore handset market in India.