HP will use Qualcomm's Gobi, while Fujitsu-Siemens will rely on Sierra Wireless's HSPA solution to provide HSPA connectivity in their future laptops. Now, Dell announced a deal with Ericsson to use the Swedish company's mobile broadband modules to "provide the end user with a simple and cost effective solution for broadband access while on-the-go." In [...]

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 [...]

TomTom won't follow Garmin's suit and doesn't plan to launch own-brand handsets. Apparently, the personal navigation device (PND) maker wants to focus on the development of the core software and further strengthen its content and services for in-car PNDs. While still concentrating on the PND market, the handset segment is a potential market for the personal [...]

Pakistani beggars and/or thieves are using SMS to fool people into giving them hefty alms in the name of religion. I guess not all people do this for fraud — certainly a number of them have real reasons for begging via SMS. One message reads, "I am a poor man and my daughter is admitted to [...]

According to Total Telecom, there are now more mobile phone users in Africa than in North America. Apparently, the number of mobile phone users in Africa exceeded 280 million in Q1 2008 and will reach the 300 million mark next month. As a result, the continent has surpassed North America (U.S. and Canada) which has a [...]

Recently we spotted an interesting piece of technology developed by Essex-based company 24/7 Mobile Solutions Ltd, called SIMable, which promises to make the process of unlocking mobile phones as seamless as possible. SIMable is an ultra thin chip, that when attached to a SIM card, immediately fools most mobile phones into thinking that they have been [...]

China keeps growing like crazy and it still manages to surprise us with its numbers. According to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), there were 574.63 million mobile subscribers as of the end of March 2008. Number of subscriptions grew 1.66% on month, 19.55% on year, and the total number of subscribers [...]

Recently, Cuba's only telephone company reported that 7,400 new mobile phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for the service. Previously, mobile phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. However, that haven't stopped many clever Cubans to [...]

AT&T has created a multi-cultural print campaign, featuring painted hands that represent cultural and historic traits of Egypt, China and Japan. We're not sure what's exactly the idea behind the ads — except maybe to prove AT&T is all about diversity — but we love the way they look, nevertheless. BBDO is behind the eye-catching [...]

We've already covered Blyk in the past and we're glad to report their business model works, as the free, ad-supported mobile operator for the 16-24 year olds just announced that it has reached 100,000 members. According to Blyk, members have embraced their concept so rapidly that annual member targets have been reached six months ahead of [...]