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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, said on Thursday India overtook the United States in the second quarter as its second biggest market after China. Globally Nokia sold 100.8 million phones in April-June and according to research...

Paris will have two competing WiMax networks by the end of this year, after Bolloré Telecom announced plans for a pilot network in the French capital. The recent WiMax moves make Paris a hotbed of wireless broadband activity in Europe. (See AlcaLu Deploys...

Toshiba reinforced today its line up of SD High Capacity (SDHC) cards with three new cards: - The worlds first 32-gigabyte (GB) memory card in this high density. - A 16GB SDHC card - An 8GB microSDHC card. The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide...

16th of August to 23rd of August 2007 ALGERIA: LACOM plans to close Algerian operations Portugal Telecom shows interest in Algerie Telecom stake BAHRAIN: Batelco trade union organises for higher wages TRA director proposes adoption of number portability...

Another version of the N95 just got the go from the FCC. This version is a quad-band GSM phone which includes support for the US 3G bands. This means that it would work with the both the voice and 3G data network of AT&T, this means it won't support T-Mobile's...

Looks like a black version of the N95 just hit the FCC and they've added 8GB of internal memory. There is also a reference to Nokia's new music store Nokia.com/music, not available in browser and in N95 but in the user manual. The FCC documents indicates...

More than a dozen handset vendors will be shipping sub-$50 models by 2008. The ultra low cost handset marketplace is currently dominated by Motorola and Nokia, but Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson are showing increasing interest and other smaller vendors...

9th of August to 16th of August 2007 AFRICA: EMC to provide DVB-S2 IP trunking platform PT merges interest in all sub-Saharan African telecom companies into Africa Holding BENIN: Globacom to provide GSM services in Benin CONGO BRAZZAVILLE: MTC plans USD...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, is in talks to buy European PC maker Packard Bell BV from principal owner John Hui, the companies said on Tuesday. Such a deal would quickly increase the Chinese...

Making calls from a cell phone with no battery, using just the warmth of your hand? Perhaps that’s no more than a pipe dream right now. But new circuits are already making it possible to harness body heat for generating electricity. Numerous items of...