A Wolfson audio chip is included in Samsung's soon to be released smartphones, Wave and Galaxy S. Edinburgh-based Wolfson Microelectronics makes microchips for mobile phones, TVs and gaming consoles.

A reported visit by Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, to LG Display last month has prompted speculation that the world's second-largest maker of liquid crystal displays may supply the display panels for the new 4G iPhone.

Not until now had anyone at HP so vehemently downplayed the smartphone part of the equation, which certainly begs the question of what HP plans to do with Palm's hardware business.

Defying skeptics, iPhone sales tripled in the most recent quarter

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.

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.

ARM CEO Warren East said the company was planning to hire about 100 more engineers in 2010 - the first headcount additions for four years - mainly to work on high-end processors that are used in smartphones and netbooks.

Currently, Apple pays royalties for ARM's chip designs used in its products. If the company acquired ARM, it could conceivably raise licensing costs to rivals or even take ARM designs off the market.

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

Among smartphone manufacturers, Apple was picked as most competitive when examining seven different fields, according to a report released by Credit Suisse.

Smartphone maker Palm is up for sale and will begin fielding offers this week.

Research in Motion posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit and revenue that missed Wall Street expectations, but the BlackBerry maker's forecast for the current quarter easily topped analysts' estimates.

Nokia has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Novarra, a web browsing company based in Chicago. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2010 and following the acquisition, Novarra will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia.

Mobile analytics firm Flurry has attempted to measure Apple's influence on the portable gaming market, and its analysis concludes that iPhone games now account for about one-fifth of all revenues for portable game software in the US.

Samsung Electronics expects global smartphone sales to double to 393 million units by 2013, according to the head of the company's mobile communications business.

Palm faces a fight for survival as intensifying competition and a series of management missteps have sent its market share and share price tumbling, leading some analysts to question the company's future.

HTC has announced the launch of its e-commerce site. Consumers can now browse and purchase from a range of HTC phones and accessories, as well as activate their new handset by selecting a rate plan from one of the four nationwide US operators.

The lawsuit that Apple filed on Tuesday against HTC opens up a lot of questions about the future of Android phones like the Nexus One and the cellphone market in general.

Their system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform is based on ARM's Cortex-A9 processor and Globalfoundries' 28nm manufacturing process, and will be used in smartphones, tablets and smartbooks.