Stories about: LG Electronics

Engineers from Google and High Tech Computer (HTC) spent three years developing Android software and handsets before the launch of the G1 by T-Mobile on Tuesday, an executive from HTC said.

If instead of writing this story I were telling it to you on my mobile phone, while rushing through an International Airport past crying babies and boarding announcements, you probably wouldn't understand half of what I'm about to say.

The global battle to control the smarts in your smartphone escalated this week when some of the combatants redeployed their forces in two big moves.

Microsoft has welcomed the transformation of the Symbian mobile-phone platform into an open source project, because the software giant contends the change will create a host of new problems for the Symbian community.

As if "openness" wasn't already the key word of the year for mobile communications, Nokia took the concept a step further Tuesday, announcing plans to create an organization called the Symbian Foundation, which will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.

It was just over a year ago that Microsoft dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.

A year after it first went on sale, LG has unveiled a 3G WCDMA version of its Prada phone.

In this week's show: fake Microsoft job posts, Xerox demos new eco-friendly projects, Dell cuts jobs, Microsoft helps law enforcement, Galileo's second satellite blasts off, Xbox 360 gets a price cut and more!

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

The LiMo Foundation has announced 18 phones based on its platform, including some that are already on the market, at the Mobile World Congress held this week in Barcelona.

Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers can use to create mobile phone applications for the company's Android mobile platform.