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  • STOCKHOLM, March 26- Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Tuesday it had sued Indian handset maker Micromax and its distributor for infringement of wireless patent rights.

  • Britain's Three says it's in no hurry to launch 4G Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 10:14 AM ET

    LONDON, March 26- Three, Britain's smallest mobile operator, said it was confident that the quality of its 3 G network would stop data hungry customers defecting to rival 4 G services before it rolls out its own superfast coverage.

  • *Europe behind Asia, parts of US on faster fibre broadband. *Part of Europe's effort to create a telco single market. BRUSSELS, March 26- The European Commission has set out rules aimed at reducing the cost of building high-speed broadband networks, in a move that shows how Brussels is seeking more power over the telecoms sector.

  • Yahoo Wonder Kid Eyes New Start-ups Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 3:04 AM ET
    Yahoo Sign

    The 17-year old founder of mobile news app Summly plans to finish school and start more companies, after Internet giant Yahoo purchased his product.

  • PRESS DIGEST - SUNDAY BRITISH BUSINESS - MARCH 24 Sunday, 24 Mar 2013 | 10:06 AM ET

    VODAFONE LINES UP $135 BLN EXIT FROM AMERICA Vodafone has held talks with U.S. partner Verizon. over the sale of its 45 percent stake in the mobile phone operator that could see Britain's second biggest company leave America and bank $135 billion.

  • Sorry Blackberry, Z10 Won't Change a Thing: Analyst Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 2:29 PM ET
    The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone

    Blackberry is betting that its new Z10 smartphone will be a game changer for the company, but it's not likely that bet will pay off, one analyst said.

  • *2012 net profit 3.9 mln dinars vs loss of 14.4 mln dinars in 2011. DUBAI, March 21- A rapidly increasing customer base helped mobile operator Viva Kuwait make an annual profit for the first time in 2012, four years after the Saudi Telecom Co affiliate launched services.

  • RLPC-Polkomtel to refi 5 bln zloty of buyout loans Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 2:59 PM ET

    By Tessa Walsh and Michelle Meineke. LONDON, March 20- Polish mobile phone operator Polkomtel has asked local and foreign banks for proposals to refinance around 5 billion zloty of loans from the company's 14.3 billion zloty buyout financing of July 2011, bankers said on Wednesday.

  • Politics, money overhang ambitious Lebanon telecom reforms Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 10:00 AM ET

    *Could boost economy, make Lebanon regional data hub. DUBAI, March 20- Lebanon is embarking on an ambitious plan to bolster its telecommunications industry with a tender to run its two state-owned mobile telephone operators.

  • BlackBerry Inventors Invest in Next Wave of Computing Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 6:25 AM ET
    Blackberry at the International Consumer Electronics Show

    BlackBerry inventors Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin are pairing again to launch a $100 million fund to incubate and commercialize quantum science technologies capable of spearheading the next wave of computing.

  • SKorean Internet provider says believes service hacked Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 2:26 AM ET

    SEOUL, March 20- South Korean Internet service provider LG UPlus said on Wednesday that it believed its network had been hacked in an outage that caused major broadcasters and a bank's networks to fail.

  • Samsung Working on Wristwatch to Rival Apple Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 5:15 AM ET

    A watch phone? Sounds like something TV private eye Maxwell Smart would have. But as smartphone sales slow, both Samsung and Apple are said to be working on them.

  • Carlo Bozotti, chief executive officer of STMicroelectronics

    STMicroelectronics and Ericsson will close their loss-making mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson by dividing parts of the business between them and shutting the rest with the loss of about 1,600 jobs.

  • Apple to Make 'Dramatic' Cash Move: Pro Friday, 15 Mar 2013 | 12:00 PM ET

    Apple may finally do something big with some of its $137 billion cash pile, said Legg Mason Capital's Bill Miller.

  • CAC 40 futures up 0.09 percent at 0712 GMT BOUYGUES, FRANCE TELECOM, VIVENDI, ILIAD. Bouygues Telecom won permission to re-use mobile spectrum deployed for voice calls for new superfast fourth-generation mobile data services as of Oct. 1, raising the pressure on its competitors.

  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Believe in Facebook. If you believe in data, you believe in Facebook.

  • BlackBerry Plans Security Feature for Android, iOS Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 1:16 PM ET
    Thorsten Heins and the Z10

    BlackBerry will offer technology to secure the mobile devices of competitors Google and Apple.

  • Bouygues Telecom may re-use spectrum for 4G from Oct 1 Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 12:59 AM ET

    PARIS, March 14- Bouygues Telecom, part of conglomerate Bouygues, won permission to re-use mobile spectrum now deployed for voice services for new superfast mobile data services as of Oct. 1, raising the pressure on its French competitors. Bouygues, the country's third-place mobile operator, had requested the change last July.

  • Tesco, Telefonica team up for Czech mobile service Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 12:25 AM ET

    Tesco Mobile will use Telefonica's existing telecoms infrastructure and Tesco's 232 stores across the country. Tesco Mobile will widen the offering of telecoms services dominated by Telefonica, T-Mobile and Vodafone. but will also help defend Telefonica's market share against the expected arrival of more' virtual' mobile operators.

  • Google Names a New Android Chief Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 2:14 PM ET
    Sundar Pichai

    Google has named Sundar Pichai to replace Android co-founder Andy Rubin as chief of the world's most used mobile software.

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