Virgin Mobile, Virgin Group’s mobile phone arm, yesterday announced it had surpassed the 2m subscriber mark, confirming its position as the UK’s fastest growing mobile operator. Virgin said its customer numbers had grown 70 percent over the past 1…

Palm Inc. today announced that the Palm Board of Directors has approved a reverse stock split and established a ratio of 1-for-20. As a result of the reverse stock split, every 20 shares of Palm common stock will be combined into one share of Palm…

NEC’s USD 73m investment for a 5 percent stake in Hutchison’s mobile phone companies, announced yesterday, highlights the degree to which its is counting on the success of the Hong Kong group’s global third generation services. NEC has supplied Hu…

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to take on Palm Inc. with a smaller and cheaper version of its iPaq handheld computer in time for the holiday season, an executive said on Wednesday.

Natural interface specialist Advanced Recognition Technologies (ART) has ported its smARTspeak XG voice recognition system to Qualcomm’s MSM chipset. smARTspeak is a speaker independent, phoneme-based embedded solution.

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UK mobile group Vodafone is to follow in the footsteps of rival operator Orange, and begin offering a pre-pay mobile ‘top up’ service at ATMs. Vodafone’s service will be offered in conjunction with Link Interchange Network, a UK company that proce…