France Telecom’s huge losses – and resulting resignation of its top man – have sent shockwaves through the European telecoms industry and claimed a big victim. The casualty is German mobile phone company MobilCom – which has now confirmed it is fi…

For the first time in its extensive history of publishing, The World Almanac has published much of its 1,000-page reference source for viewing on handhelds. Town Compass, LLC has created the 2002 World Almanac databases for Palm OS handhelds to he…

Vodafone Group Chief Executive Chris Gent cast fresh doubt on Thursday about whether French media group Vivendi would sell its stake in Cegetel in the current depressed telecoms market. Sources said last week that Vivendi Universal and Europe’s la…

Consumers who do not yet have a mobile phone can benefit this Christmas from a range of ultra-low prices, but investors are wondering what a price war would do to profit margins in the battered handset industry. Handset prices have come down sharp…

Network operator Orange has won a three year contract to supply mobile telephony services to British public sector organisations. Government bodies such as the National Health Service had previously been restricted to purchasing such services from…

France Telecom is this week expected to walk away from future obligations at MobilCom, condemning the German mobile operator to bankruptcy. MobilCom shares yesterday lost more than half their value despite reassuring statements from the company an…

Fonix, developer of natural interface technology, has announced that it will port its applications to XScale processors and take advantage of Intel’s MMX extensions.

Users will be able to control mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs with…

The US Federal Communications Commission is set to free several major operators from their commitments to pay up for spectrum licences. Several mobile companies in the US had bid a total USD 16 billion for the spectrum licences owned by bankrupt m…