Shipments of GPS-enabled mobile phones will generate over US$50 billion in revenues in 2008, rising to US$100 billion in 2012, says ABI Research.

Google Maps with My Location, a service for mobile users that doesn't rely on GPS, is now in use by Google.

In a major shift for the mobile phone industry, Verizon Wireless said that it planned to give customers far more choice in what phones they can use on its network and how they use them.

Samsung Electronics has confirmed its plans to build a plant to produce handsets and printers in the northern part of Vietnam with a consolidated production capacity of over 100 million units.

Sales of cell phones to US consumers rose 47% to US$3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2007, market research company The NPD Group said Tuesday.

Qualcomm won a round in its patent battles with wireless phone maker Nokia on Wednesday as a US trade court tossed out a lawsuit asking for Qualcomm's chips to be barred from the United States.

Foxconn International Holdings, the world's biggest contract manufacturer of mobile phones, plans to invest at least US$500 million in the next few years on a new factory in southern China to expand production.

"...Samsung has cut more than 1,600 jobs in a large-scale restructuring move unseen since 2002, to take the brunt for weak prices of chips and flat-panels for televisions...Market observers said the latest large-scale job cuts have widely been expected as the operating margin for the company plunged 27 percent in the first quarter from a year ago due to disappointing performances in its key business..."

The first batch of the W910i recently released by Sony Ericsson are all being recalled by Orange due to problems of the phone switching off after 10 seconds and not answering calls.

China's largest cell phone service provider successfully tested a transmission station on Mount Everest on Tuesday, making it possible for people in the area for next year's Olympic torch relay to make calls, a state news agency reported.

AT&T announced the launch of a comprehensive, easy-to-use mobile banking platform that will enable consumers to view account balances and history, transfer funds and pay bills from their AT&T mobile handsets.

3.5G HSDPA mobile Internet access working on the Taiwan High Speed Rail at 300km/h - is it possible?

Microsoft announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement around its intention to acquire Musiwave, a provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies.

Clearwire has suffered a huge setback to its plans to build a nationwide WiMAX network in the US after Sprint Nextel pulled out of an agreement made in July to share the infrastructure for a service that would cover 300 million people.

Google announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide US$10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android, the first complete, open and free mobile platform.

Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies announced the world's first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi-mode mobile phone, which was demoed at the PT/Wireless Exposition in Beijing on October 23.

Gome Electrical Appliances, China's leading home appliance vendor, is tapping into the lucrative mobile phone market by opening next year 500 local stores that will exclusively sell the communication gadget.

"...Samsung sold LCD TVs, DVD players, MP3 music players and other items in Japan via the Internet, but stopped at the end of October. It had ceased sales in retail outlets in August last year...Samsung will sell flat screen computer monitors directly to businesses and will continue to sell components such as memory and LCDs. The company will also keep supplying mobile phone handsets to Softbank..."

Taiwanese mobile-handset manufacturer HTC announced Tuesday that it will release its first Android-powered device into the European market in the second half of 2008.

Sony Ericsson unveiled the W380 Walkman phone along with new accessories.

As cell phone use has skyrocketed, making it hard to avoid hearing half a conversation in many public places, a small but growing band of rebels is turning to a blunt countermeasure: the cell phone jammer, a gadget that renders nearby mobile devices impotent.

China Mobile, China's biggest mobile telecom operator, has joined the alliance of technology and wireless companies initiated by Google to co-develop Android, the first open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.

Wal-Mart's early price-cutting has ignited a wave of deep discounts that could rival Black Friday's blockbuster deals.