Huawei is claiming three 'world firsts' with its new multimode USB dongles and a WiMAX/HSPA Android 2.2 handset.

With apologies to David Bowie, "it's a, it's a, it's a iPad in-store Saturday!"

On March 31 one of the world's first 2G digital cellular networks, in Japan, will be one of the first to be closed down as a result of becoming obsolete.

Online bookseller Booktopia is set to introduce book vending machines.

India and China are running neck and neck at breakneck speed, signing up an astounding 184.5 million new mobile subscriptions between them in just 12 months last year as they vie for the title of the world’s largest telecoms services market.

Flipping into action with a well known but previously unavailable form factor on the BlackBerry platform is the “BlackBerry Pearl Flip”, which essentially is the popular Pearl model, complete with the now standard trackball, in a flip phone format. BlackBerry lovers will flip out!

Just as Ericsson has today boasted of its work in getting 3.5G WCDMA/HSPA modules into users hands through phones, computers and in future Intel MIDs, Nokia Siemens wants to remind the world that it too is a major player with some big and even record achievements under its belt, too.