"...CIOs should prepare two budgets for 2008...to assume growth similar to that seen over the past six years and the need to cut costs with the arrival of a recession...Gartner said 2007 had been a milestone year for IT, which was set to become a £1.5tn market. But a tightening economy would change the growth rate of the IT industry in 2008..."

Use of the WCDMA third-generation mobile phone service is growing rapidly in Korea, with the number of subscribers reaching the four million mark eight months after the service was launched in March.

Nokia-Siemens Networks has laid off 350 employees in China as part of the company's global layoff plan.

Warner Music Group is withholding its content from Nokia Corp's new music Web site over concerns about illegal downloads, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its online edition.

AT&T and Motorola announced thatthe MOTO Q 9h global will be available exclusively to AT&T customers in the US beginning November 2.

Google is in talks with Verizon Communications, the second-largest US telephone company, to work together on mobile-phone software and services, a person with knowledge of the discussions said.

EBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls to each other while on the move.

T-Mobile USA announces the upcoming availability of the T-Mobile Shadow, which is being produced by HTC.

Motorola reported sales of US$8.8 billion for the third quarter of 2007. Mobile devices segment sales were US$4.5 billion, down 36% on year.

Alcatel-Lucent and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Tuesday that they agreed to work together to distribute the popular smartphones in China.

i-mate announced the launch of its Ultimate range of Windows Mobile wireless devices in the Americas.

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Hisense Communication announced a collaboration slated to bring to market in 2008 mobile phones with Qualcomm MEMS displays.

Sharp has successfully developed a 2.2-inch super-thin LCD for mobile devices with a thickness of only 0.68mm.

AT&T is partnering with Napster to offer more than five million songs to its subscribers for downloading. Music through the service will be protected by digital rights management technology. AT&T will announce which devices it will be available on when it launches next month, but the iPhone will not be among them.

"...The results were stronger than expected and came in spite of a slowdown in the rate of growth in sales of the iPod..."

Qualcomm said on Friday that a judge had recommended ending a US International Trade Commission investigation of a complaint Nokia had brought against Qualcomm.

US mobile carrier Sprint is looking to go up against the Apple iPhone with the HTC Touch, powered by Windows Mobile 6 and a 2.8-inch touch-screen display.

In an apparent about-face, Apple will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone.

Nokia began shipping its 8GB N95 smartphone, which is expected to hit the stores soon.

The chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission has confirmed plans to require licence winners in the forthcoming 700MHz spectrum auction to allow customers to use the device or software of their choice.

After a couple of experiences dipping a toe into the mobile market, Mozilla Corporation said it plans to get serious about developing a mobile browser.

Japan's Sanyo Electric said it has reached a basic agreement to sell its loss-making mobile phone business to Kyocera Corp, creating the world's seventh-largest cellphone provider.

In a move that could alter the dynamics of a hotly anticipated wireless auction next year, AT&T said Tuesday it will pay US$2.5 billion to buy spectrum from Aloha Partners.