Nokia, Qualcomm sign deal after years in court
News After years of bitter disputes, the two firms have inked a deal that will see Nokia use Qualcomm's chips in its advanced mobile phones [17 Feb 2009]
Cisco adds web conferencing to more smartphones
News Smartphone users will soon be able to join WebEx conferences from their handsets, and Cisco has added the capability for BlackBerry devices [17 Feb 2009]
Alcatel-Lucent aims to lead 4G consortium
News The telecoms company pulls together manufacturers and developers in an attempt to steer the creation of 4G wireless devices, applications and content [17 Feb 2009]
Skype stakes a place on Nokia smartphones
News Skype will embed its internet calling software and service onto Nokia phones, starting with the high-end N97 device [17 Feb 2009]
Single charger coming for mobile phones
News Mobile-industry leaders agree to use Micro-USB as a single standard for phone chargers, promising to reduce the number of chargers shipped and the number needed by users to revive their handsets [17 Feb 2009]
Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone
Blog Companies in the mobile industry will need to be "open" to succeed, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday. However, he said, this may take place "in different ways and at... [17 Feb 2009]
Red Hat, Microsoft expand virtualisation alliance
News The rivals have teamed up to make virtualisation deployment easier and more flexible for enterprises [17 Feb 2009]
Huawei to begin selling Android phones
News The Chinese phone maker says handsets with the Google-sponsored OS will arrive this year, and adds that it is considering phones using other operating systems too [17 Feb 2009]
Toshiba snaps up Fujitsu HDD business
News The Japanese electronics manufacturer has agreed to buy Fujitsu's hard-disk drive business, in a move aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise storage market [17 Feb 2009]
Qualcomm and Nokia ink deal. Hell reported 'chilly'
Blog It's been one of the great spats of the mobile world - Nokia versus Qualcomm. At heart were vertiginous stacks of disputed intellectual property; both companies owning essential IP that the other... [17 Feb 2009]
AT&T;: Dell to release smartphone
Blog Dell is set to launch a smartphone, AT&T; chief executive Ralph de la Vega has revealed. Speaking at a Mobile World Congress keynote session on Tuesday morning, de la Vega said: "Acer announced... [17 Feb 2009]
Google Android Market to accept priced apps
News The search giant will allow developers to sell applications for its Android operating system, marking an important step in its quest to catch up with Apple in the smartphone market [17 Feb 2009]
SanDisk enlists mobile carriers in memory-card drive
News The flash-memory maker aims to boost the sales of memory cards on mobile phones by tailoring cards to highlight the offerings of individual network operators [17 Feb 2009]
Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan
News Lawyers for the British Airline Pilots' Association are looking into a possible legal challenge to government plans for pilots to take up the identity cards this year [17 Feb 2009]
SpinVox opens up its API for new apps
News The speech-to-text conversion company hopes its open application programming interface will allow developers to create new, as-yet-unthought-of applications for the technology [17 Feb 2009]
Backup 3.0 update adds Linux files
News Veeam's recovery software for VMware virtual machines now lets users recover individual Linux files from image backups [17 Feb 2009]
Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers
News The US Energy Department has rebuked the Los Alamos nuclear lab for treating missing computers as a property-management issue and not a cybersecurity risk, internal documents show [16 Feb 2009]
Nokia slides out E75 and E55 smartphones 
Photos A look at two new E-series smartphones, both with slide-out keyboard, introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona [16 Feb 2009]
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Mozilla's Developer Tools Lab has released its first prototype — a web-based, collaborative code-editing framework called Bespin [16 Feb 2009]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News The company has also announced a mobile-application marketplace and an online back-up and management service, and said that handsets using its OS are now to be known as 'Windows phones' [16 Feb 2009]
Symbian Foundation signs up more supporters
News The not-for-profit organisation has added a further 14 voices of support, including Bank of America, HP, MySpace, Qualcomm and SanDisc [16 Feb 2009]
HTC adds two Touch smartphones
Photos The handset maker has released two new models to refresh its touchscreen smartphone line, both set to arrive by summer this year [16 Feb 2009]
Apple: iPhone jailbreaking violates our copyright
News Apple has laid out what is believed to be its first legal argument against the practice of jailbreaking an iPhone in response to an EFF petition before the US Copyright Office [16 Feb 2009]
Pirate Bay trial to begin in Sweden
News The four men behind the popular file-sharing site are accused of helping millions of internet users to illegally download protected movies, music and computer games [16 Feb 2009]
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has said that self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon will have to wait to find out whether he will be prosecuted in the UK. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)... [16 Feb 2009]
