Stories about: Ericsson Mobile Communications

Motorola took a 50 percent stake in UIQ, a move that is likely a reaction to stepped up competition from the iPhone.

Greenpeace has published its latest "green ranking" of the world's biggest electronics companies and the results might surprise you.

Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya.

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company's open-source Java IDE (integrated development environment), aiming to beef up the software's productivity tools and improve its look-and-feel.

Skype will help market an application that will put its contact list and VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and instant messaging services on high-end mobile phones.

The never-ending spate of law-suits between companies like Research In Motion (RIM) and Visto could soon be over, thanks to a mobile email standard which might support an open-source alternative.

The Hungarian man sentenced to three years in prison for industrial espionage after hacking Ericsson and Sony Ericsson intranets last week appealed that sentence.

After launching two of the world's first Linux smart phones, China's E28 is now offering handset manufacturers the opportunity to license its software and hardware designs based on the increasingly popular open-source operating system.

IBM has announced a new software strategy, with accompanying products, designed to circumvent Microsoft's lock on operating systems and productivity applications.

NTT DoCoMo is planning to provide money to six cellular telephone makers to help them develop advanced handsets based on the Symbian and Linux operating systems and high-speed data communications technology, it said last Friday.

Users of smart phones equipped with Nokia Corp.'s Series 60 software running on top of the Symbian operating system can download a mobile phone browser featuring SSR (small-screen rendering) technology from Norway's Opera Software ASA.