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  • News: IDC confirms plummeting PDA market

    Worldwide PDA shipments continued a steep decline in the second quarter, as struggling vendors sold 719,000 units worldwide, down from 1.26 million last year, according IDC.

  • News: Mobile phone firms test pop-up ads

    Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and other online giants have all said they hope to take advantage of what they see as great potential in mobile advertising. But some start-ups say that those companies are looking at delivering the ads the wrong way.

  • News: Nokia cancels in-house chip development

    Nokia is to halt some in-house chipset development and instead rely on technology from other chipset manufacturers, the company revealed today.

  • News: Doctor targets iPhone in patent dispute

    The iPhone is at the centre of a patent dispute brought against Apple by a doctor who is heading to prison for defrauding US government health insurance programmes.

  • News: HTC & iAnywhere unveil Windows Mobile plan

    iAnywhere Solutions has announced a partnership with High Tech Computer (HTC) that could help smartphones based on Windows Mobile compete more effectively with the BlackBerry, according to an iAnywhere executive.

  • News: 'Negligent' Apple fails on Mac OS X patching

    Apple's lackadaisical updating of the open-source components it uses in Mac OS X is inexcusable and "negligent", according to one of the researchers who went public with the first iPhone vulnerability last month.

  • News: Industry backs Mobile Linux handsets

    A mobile Linux group formed by six of the world’s top mobile phone makers has received wider industry support.

  • News: FCC pans Google's 'White Space' handsets

    A prototype device built by Google, Microsoft and other technology companies doesn't work as promised, according to the US Federal Communications Commission.

  • News: Nokia licenses Microsoft's DRM software

    Nokia will license Microsoft's PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology. The move should give Nokia service providers a greater choice of copy-protection software.

  • News: 16 percent of mobile buyers will buy iPhone

    ChangeWave claims that up to 16 percent of those planning to buy a mobile phone in the next six months will buy an Apple iPhone.

  • News: 25 new Apple iPhone features needed for the UK

    Two months to go until the iPhone's European release, we've put together a wish list of improvements Apple should make to the handset to ensure you'll buy one when it's released in the UK

  • News: iPhone security threats are 'overblown'

    Analysts are arguing over the suitability of Apple’s iPhone to the business sector, with some saying IT buyers should be wary of security issues, and other claiming the threat has been overblown.

  • News: Parallels adds iPhone support on Vista & XP

    Parallels has released a new public beta of Parallels Desktop for Mac that supports the iPhone in Windows XP and Vista while running on your Mac.

  • News: Nokia is world's top mobile phone maker

    Nokia remains the world’s top mobile phone supplier, holding onto its dominant share of the market during the second quarter while Motorola tumbled from second to third place.

  • News: WSJ: Google mobile phone in a year

    Google has developed a prototype mobile phone that could be available within a year, according to a story published in The Wall Street Journal. The company plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, email and web browser software applications, the WSJ says.

  • News: iPhone gets free Wi-Fi, translation tool

    Thirteen airports in the US and Canada are to offer Apple iPhone users free wireless internet connectivity in August. Meanwhile, iPhone owners can also now access a language translation tool, to look up phrases in five major languages.

  • News: iPhone fix could defeat Black Hat hackers

    Apple has released updates for the iPhone, Safari 3 beta and Airport Extreme as well as issuing Security Update 2007-007 1.0.

  • News: Free PS3s offered at The Link

    Mobile phone retailer The Link is offering free Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to customers signing up for a Samsung or Nokia handsets.

  • News: Cheap mobile phone roaming now compulsory

    The European Commission plans to name the European mobile phone operators who failed to meet last night’s deadline to offer a new mobile roaming tariff.

  • News: Apple iPhone on show in the UK

    Macworld reports that Mac reseller Computer Warehouse has put an Apple iPhone on display in its Brentford West London retail store.