AFP – US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, in a bid to become a player in the fast-growing smartphone market, said Wednesday it was buying struggling US mobile phone maker Palm for 1.2 billion dollars.
AP – Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc. said Monday it has named longtime company executive Mark Shockley as senior vice president of global go-to-market for its mobile devices business, responsible for overseeing the segment’s worldwide sales operations.
AP – Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson posted its first quarterly profit in nearly two years Friday, boosted by gains from high-end devices such as smartphones and cost cuts.
Reuters – Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson (ERICb.ST) (6758.T) swung to a surprise first-quarter profit as its push into the growing smartphone market and hefty cost cuts boosted margins.
AP – Nokia Corp., the world‘s biggest mobile phone maker, said Friday it has bought MetaCarta Inc., whose technology helps users find “anything written about any place.”
AFP – Top mobile phone maker Nokia brought its music download service to the key Chinese market Thursday and said it would also launch the service, which competes with Apple‘s iTunes, in India.
NewsFactor – Giant chipmaker Intel and mobile-phone maker Nokia have released initial code to developers to test the new open-source MeeGo platform. The platform is a merger between Intel’s Moblin and Nokia‘s Maemo projects that was announced in February.
AFP – The world‘s top mobile phone maker Nokia said Thursday it had renewed cell phone contracts worth more than two billion dollars with two distributors in China, one of its key markets.
Reuters – The world‘s largest mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it had won handset deals with distributors in China worth over $2 billion.
Reuters – Top mobile phone maker Nokia has agreed to buy privately-held U.S. mobile browser firm Novarra to improve Web surfing on a wide range of its low-end and mid-range phones.
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