Blog » December 2009

A state lawmaker in Maine is trying to get the state's legislature to mandate that cell phones carry warnings that they may cause cancer, even though there is no scientific consensus on the issue. Maine wo    

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion posted notable gains in device shipments, revenues and net income in the third quarter, evidence the smartphone vendor continues to ride out a wave of competition from the li    

Stronger-than-expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the gray market in the third quarter of 2009 will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67% decline f    

Every quarter, much attention is paid to the handset shipments from the top 5 handset makers--Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. But what about the next five largest handset makers--companies such    

Contrary to dire predictions at the beginning of the year, the handset market did not crater, according to research firm Gartner. The firm said the global market for cell phones declined only 0.7 percent this y    

Nokia plans to temporarily cut around 400 jobs next year at its only plant in Finland. The firm says that because of the current market conditions, it does not need to operate at full capacity    

Acer is integrating its marketing and sales channels for notebooks and smartphones in order to boost sales of smartphones, according to Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan.    

There were more than 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009, a number that is expected to more than double by the end of 2013. Driven by the popularity and affordability of mobile phones, smartphon    

Taiwan-based handset chassis maker Chi Cheng Enterprise has issued a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) to deny recent market rumors indicating that Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is    

Computer maker Dell said it would create a division focused on communications and mobile devices, a organizational restructuring that further highlights the company's intentions to broaden its reach into s