Ericsson. Nokia and other foreign network vendors need to start taking China's home-grown 3G mobile standard more seriously, or risk missing out on the country's shift to 3G warned a senior Chinese industry official.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has approved the use of third generation mobile phone standards WCDMA and CDMA2000, which rival China's homegrown TD-SCDMA standard. The WCDMA is considered to be European, the CDMA2000 American and the TD-SCDMA Chinese.

Taiwanese manufacturer BenQ has signed a memorandum of intent (MoI) to sell its plant in northern Brazil that produces mobile phone handsets.

Scandal-battered Siemens has turned to an outsider in its search for a new chief executive, naming a top US health care industry executive as its new leader.

Metalink Ltd., which provides wireless and wireline broadband communications technology, said Wednesday it opened a new regional office and design center in Taiwan to support local partners and customers. The Israeli company said the 12-person office, which will include research, sales and support workers, will be headed by Alister Chu, who previously served as a manager for biometrics technology company AuthenTec.

Samsung Electronics, the world's third-largest maker of handsets, said on Tuesday it is looking to build a new mobile phone plant in Vietnam or another country.

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Carl Icahn has lost his bid to win a board seat at Motorola, according to a preliminary count of votes Monday evening.

Palm recently announced the availability of the Palm Treo 750 smartphone on the StarHub and SingTel networks in Singapore and the Globe network in the Philippines.

Nokia has started shipping the Nokia N76 to key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets.

Motorola says it will buy video-chip maker Terayon for US$140 million in cash.

O2, in an eco-friendly move, will be offering customers credit back as an incentive to keep their existing phones.