A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Microsoft Corp's request that it reconsider the way patents are upheld in court cases, as the software maker continues its long legal battle with French telecoms equipment company Alcatel-Lucent.
Two big initial public offerings in Asia made double-digit gains on Thursday, while a third IPO raised $3.9 billion, showing demand holding up strongly in the face of a flood of new issues.
Shares of Malaysia's biggest mobile phone operator Maxis jumped on the company's trading debut on Thursday, reflecting pent-up demand for the stock from local institutions squeezed out of its IPO allocations.
Britain's BT Group increased its revenue and dividend forecast for the full year on Thursday after stringent cost cuts helped the former telecoms monopoly to beat second quarter core earnings expectations.
Motorola is in the early stages of looking into a potential sale of roughly $4.5 billion of its television set-top box and network equipment business, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Apple overtook Nokia in the third quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit in the industry, research firm Strategy Analytics said.
Vodafone Group, the world's largest cellphone service operator by revenue, is to step up cost cutting after a successful start to a program which boosted cashflow in the first half of the year.
Sprint Nextel is starting the process of eliminating up to 2,500 jobs or 6 percent of its workforce this quarter as part of an effort to shave at least $350 million off its annual expenses.
With Google's free navigation on the Motorola Droid, available Friday, cell phones are expanding at the expense of navigation devices such as Garmin and TomTom.
If you're planning on committing a crime, cheating on your spouse or lying to your employer about where you’ve been, it may be a good idea to leave your cell phone at home.
Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it would sell an HTC Corp phone based on Google Android system for $99.99, potentially putting pressure on smaller carrier Sprint Nextel.
AT&Tis suing Verizon Wirelessin an effort to stop its bigger mobile rival from using "misleading" coverage maps in ads that AT&T says are causing it to lose "incalculable market share."
KT Corp, South Korea's dominant fixed-line operator and No. 2 mobile carrier, reported a 12 percent fall in quarterly operating profit due to intensified competition in broadband and Internet telephony.