Sony Ericsson recently announced the launch of its W910, K850 and K630 handsets.

Samsung Electronics, the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, expects the global handset market to grow more than 10% in the fourth quarter from the third, an executive said on Friday.

Broadcom announced that its VDSL2 and StrataXGS Ethernet products have been qualified and selected by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) of Taiwan for mass deployment in its next generation IP services network.

RIM and Eatoni Ergonomics have agreed to work jointly on the next generation of predictive text technology in ambiguous keyboards.

Google has acquired mobile messaging developer Jaiku, but it's keeping its plans for the Helsinki, Finland-based company hush-hush.

Nokia announced it has completed the acquisition of mobile advertising provider Enpocket.

Motorola said it expects to record about US$122 million in charges in the third quarter of 2007, stemming from its previously announced cost-cutting initiatives and work force reduction.

AT&T announced the Tilt, a Windows Mobile phone designed by HTC with full BlackBerry e-mail support as well as a 3-megapixel camera, GPS and global high-speed networking.

Shares of Garmin fell more than 10% on Monday after Nokia offered to buy digital map supplier Navteq. Analysts had speculated that Garmin, whose devices are enabled by GPS technology, might buy Navteq, its main map supplier.

Broadcom announced sampling of a low power multimedia processor for cellphones and portable media players that enables high definition (HD) video camcorder and playback functions in addition to support of up to a 12-megapixel resolution digital camera.

Nokia Siemens Networks said it will transfer some of its R&D operations in Munich and Berlin to IBM, under an outsourcing deal signed with the US-based group.

Adobe Systems released new software for its popular Flash Player on Sunday that promises to bring the quality of live video on cellular phones closer to that of video on computers.

A Samsung official said the companies will debut the Samsung-Armani mobile phone in November, and an LCD TV in January next year.

In recent months, Google's mobile aspirations have generated headlines aplenty. But out of the limelight, another major Internet player, AOL, is preparing to flex its mobile muscles as well.

Alcatel-Lucent and Kyocera Wireless announced that the two companies have signed a joint development agreement under which they will collaborate on the development of end-to-end wireless broadband solutions based on Universal WiMAX technology.

Broadcom announced its first single-chip global positioning system (GPS) solution.

Nokia released on Tuesday the newest addition to its E-series lineup of mobile phones for businesses, revamping the user interface for easier navigation, executives said during a London product launch.

Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner Inc. analyst who was at the London presentation, said she wondered if it matters much in the long run whether Apple stays a step ahead of hackers, as Jobs said it must do. "At the moment, as a consumer, you need to be very careful about unlocking the iPhone, and know how you want to use it," she said. "If you unlock it, you are not going to have a flat rate, and you will not have access to the 7,500 hot spots."

Google is launching AdSense for Mobile, which will allow marketers to place contextual ads on sites viewed via mobile devices.

Market-leading phone maker Nokia on September 17 moved to bolster its mobile advertising front by agreeing to acquire Enpocket for an undisclosed sum.

Wipha's eye was 160 kilometers east of the northeastern coastal city of Ilan at 10 a.m. local time, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said in a statement on its Web site. The storm was moving northwest at 20 kilometers per hour, the bureau's advisory said. The eye is expected to skirt north Taiwan and make landfall in China tomorrow after 8 a.m. tomorrow, the bureau said. Heavy rain and strong winds are expected with winds as high as 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour).

The new Sprint Airave is a femtocell or compact wireless base station that boosts cellular signals indoors to provide enhanced coverage up to 5,000 square feet. The device, which can handle up to three calls at one time, is available for purchase in Sprint stores in Denver and Indianapolis. It will be available throughout Sprint's network sometime in 2008.

There is good reason for those involved in the mobile TV industry to hype it so much. For mobile telecoms firms it is an attractive application that may go some way to recovering the billions invested in 3G networks.

Qwest Communications has added two HTC devices, the Mogul and the Fusion 5800 which is a Qwest exclusive.