iPhone in white coming, alright

Apple’s biggest seller will soon be a white knight, after months of delays and setbacks. The iPhone 4 is set to be relaunched in white within a month, if anonymous sources are to be believed.
 

Gang of nine plots Nokia's salvation

A group of nine, as yet unidentified, Nokia shareholders opposed to the Microsoft alliance has set up a web site to lobby shareholder support for an alternative plan that would see the alliance scrapped, and CEO Stephen Elop sacked along with number of other senior executives.
 

Mobile industry lobbies to keep spectrum renewal fees low

With the 15 year spectrum licences under which Australia's mobile networks operate coming up for renewal, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has wheeled out a leading economist to lobby the government for 'conservative' renewal fees.
 

Nokia re-organises to face challenges of evolving handset market

Nokia has re-organised its mobile phone business in a bid to better exploit the rapid growth of smartphones and the challenges from new vendors and technologies in the smartphones market.
 

Optus to trouser 160 million Dodo dollars

Dodo will spend $160 million over the next four years on wholesale mobile services from Optus.
 

Unlocked Google phone likely for sale on January 5

Google is poised to extend its domination of search to the mobile phone market with news an official Google phone may be on sale as early as January 5th. The handset will be for sale unlocked and without contract and will use data, not voice.
 

Apple countersues Nokia in patent squabble

Nokia to Apple: 'The iPhone infringes ten of our patents.' Apple to Nokia: 'It does not - but you're infringing 13 of ours!'
 

iPhone smartphone virus onslaught now coming?

As the ikee Rick Astley and the iPhone/Privacy.A iPhone malware attacks take the world by storm, will iPhones and smartphones now start becoming subject to the onslaught of virus attacks common in the Windows world of PCs?
 

Get yourself a personalised mobile phone number

Australian Mobile Telecommunications Group (AMT) has launched a service, My Number, that enables mobile phone users to buy a mobile number that, when translated using the letters on a phone's keypad, spells something meaningful. Owners of meaningful numbers can also auction these via the My Number website.
 

Apple the most profitable handset vendor?

Market research firm Strategy Analytics estimates Apple's Q3 2009 iPhone profits at $US1.6 billion putting it ahead of long time global leader Nokia for the first time.