China-based Huawei Technologies Co. is considering the sale of a large portion of its mobile devices division to a foreign investor. Apparently, the idea behind the move is to get additional money and enter the North American market. According to The Wall Street Journal, the sale is at an early stage of discussions and Huawei plans [...]

AT&T scored the exclusive launch rights for the latest BlackBerry Bold smartphone. That doesn't mean other U.S. based carriers won't get a chance to carry the long awaited device. On the contrary, that only means AT&T will be the first to offer the device, with other carriers to follow within few weeks. Hence, that employee [...]

Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones. As a result, BlackBerry smartphone owners will be able to access Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail by simply entering their Windows Live E-Mail address and password once. To put it in other words, if you own [...]

Google announced that it has released a new version of the Google Reader for iPhone. Still in beta, it promises to deliver much better, more desktop-like experience to the Apple handset owners. This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy to act on [...]

Roughly a month ago, Opera Software released Opera Mini 4.1 in beta. The final version is now out, and it packs all of the features the beta version had in a more stable packaging. Let's recap the features: It's up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0 URL completions support makes address input a snap Web pages can be [...]

Recently, ShoZu announced that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. Even before adding these 8 new destinations, ShoZu supported almost 30 of the popular social media services. With the latest addition, they now enable mobile users to interact with [...]

AdMob has announced AdMob Mobile Analytics to deliver a "comprehensive solution for understanding user behavior and makes it easy to measure the usage of mobile websites and advertising campaigns." AdMob Mobile Analytics, which runs independent of the company's other services, can be set up in less than 10 minutes and does not require advertising spend or [...]

Singapore's SingTel owned Optus, one of Australia's two iPhone carriers, recently said it will invest a further AU$315 million (US$295 million) in building its HSPA-enabled 3G network. The idea is of course to compete and match Teltra's 99% 3G network coverage and ultimately get more customers. Last year, Optus announced it will invest AU$500 million into [...]

The low-cost car rental company, Payless Car Rental, announced that it has launched an iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version of its website, allowing the mentioned two Apple product owners to conveniently rent a car from their beloved device(s), wherever they are. Payless' iPhone interface (www.PaylessCarRental.com) enables users to book a car in just three easy steps. In [...]

According to HTC's CFO Hui-ming Cheng, the smartphone maker's revenues are expected to grow over 20% on year, to reach NT$34 billion (US$1.12 billion) in Q2 2008. However, when compared with the first quarter of the year, revenues will grow only 4 percent due to a delay in the launch of new products. But, now with [...]

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Nokia has announced its plans to add a desktop feature to its Nokia Maps GPS solution soon, with the ability to create routes online and sync them to a compatible phone for use on the go. It is expected to be available some time this summer. Read the full story here.

Opera Software today announced its newest version the Opera Mini browser, up to 50 percent faster that prior version. Opera Mini 4.1 searchs for text within a webpage, provides URL entry with recognition based on bookmarks and browsing history, uploads and downloads files without going into the phone's native browser and downloads pages for offline viewing. "More than 44 million people from all over the world have discovered and fallen in love with Opera Mini," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Ope...

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There are just some things that are too good not to be true. And then there are things that are just too ridiculous to believe. First off, AT&T has released a statement saying that the mention of free AT&T WiFi HotSpot access for iPhone users was "human error." Apparently, some hasty web-head pulled the trigger too [...]

Following market speculation that SK Telecom, Helio's sole remaining parent, was negotiating with Virgin Mobile USA to orchestrate a possible merger between the two companies, the South Korean carrier has announced that rumors regarding Virgin Mobile USA's acquisition of Helio were "groundless." SK Telecom wants us to know that it remains "committed" to Helio but that [...]

Recently, AT&T posted a note on its site saying that iPhone owners would have free access to its nationwide WiFi hotspot network. The note was then quickly removed. Read the full story here.