February 21st to February 28th 2008 AFRICA: Vodacom in acquisition talks with LAP Green  BAHRAIN: Government plans sale of Batelco shares Zainalabedin appointed as new Zain Bahrain CCO  EGYPT: NTRA to auction second fixed-line licence on 19 June 2008 Orascom Telecom to reduce issued capital  GHANA: GT stake still on offer Mobile customer [...]

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website.   Morph [...]

The "GiFi" was unveiled today at the Melbourne University-based laboratories of NICTA, the national information and communications technology research centre. A $10 chip that could transmit 5 gigabits per second of data over a wireless connection, for a distance of up to 10 meters (abour 32 feet)... "I believe in the longer term every consumer device will have this technology," said [...]

February 7th to February 14th 2008 AFGHANISTAN: Roshan pioneers mobile payment service  AFRICA: Celtel to go the Zain way in Africa too  ANGOLA: Alcatel-Lucent wins GSM/EDGE expansion contract from Unitel  BAHRAIN: Batelco releases annual ’07 results (Updated) Zain Bahrain plans on floating an IPO  BOTSWANA: IFC to advice on BTC [...]

Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. that its Board of Directors has rejected Microsoft’s previously announced proposal to acquire Yahoo!:  It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair [...]

Connected, Mobile navigation for Walk and Drive has arrived - Nokia unveils Maps 2.0 Updates include enhanced pedestrian navigation, new satellite images and support for integrated compass orientation   Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Today at the Mobile World Congress Nokia announced that the Beta version of Nokia Maps 2.0 is [...]

LiMo Foundation is a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. Commercial LiMo handsets being announced today are: MOTO U9, MOTO Z6w, MOTOROKR Z6, RAZR2 V8, RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition and MOTOROKR E8 from Motorola; NTT DoCoMo FOMA N905i, FOMA N905iμ, FOMA N705i and FOMA N705iμ from NEC; [...]

January 31st to February 7th 2008 ALGERIA: Orascom Telecom Algerie overrules sale speculations  BAHRAIN: Batelco releases annual ’07 results Batelco to cut employee numbers  EGYPT: Mobinil registers USD 328 million annual ’07 net income North Korea sanctions mobile licence to Orascom Telecom Egypt selects Alcatel-Lucent for $125Mn new undersea [...]