For the first time, Google's mobile operating system, Android, holds more than half of the smartphone market, according to market analytics firm ComScore.
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Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unveiled three smartphones to help compete with bigger rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co for the holiday shopping season.
Samsung Electronics has built global leadership in mobile phones, but in a fickle industry looks more vulnerable than its nemesis Apple Inc without an 'ecosystem' - software, services, content and customer support - to keep its users loyal.
Japan's Sony Corp said hackers have accessed the email addresses and names of as many as 400 of its mobile unit's customers in China and Taiwan held on servers owned by a third-party vendor.
South Korean regulators are investigating complaints filed by Apple Inc that Samsung Electronics Co is abusing its dominant position in wireless technology, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday.
Loss-making Nokia has slashed prices of its older smartphone models using Microsoft Windows software, industry sources said on Thursday, a day after investors gave its latest Lumia phones a rapid thumbs-down.
At the IFA conference in Berlin last week, HTC announced that its Desire X smartphone, the third entry in the Desire range, will launch in late September at UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse. The device will go on sale for around £180, with no word on a U.S price.
Samsung's flagship device, the Galaxy S3, has wrested the top smartphone mantle away from Apple's iPhone 4S to become top-selling U.S. smartphone in August.
The much-awaited news is finally official. Apple has sent out e-mail invitations to the media, inviting them to an "invitation-only event" in San Francisco on Sept. 12. The invite fuels debut rumors of the tech giant's flagship smartphone, the hotly-anticipated iPhone 5.
Leaked pictures of the Apple iPhone 5 continues to make headway ahead of the rumored September 12 announcement that is expected to bring forth officially the iPhone 5. These new photos show what is said to be an iPhone in a side by side comparison with an iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4S.
Finnish smartphone maker Nokia is expected to unveil its flagship smartphone Lumia 920 along with Lumia 820 at an event with Microsoft on Wednesday, Sept. 5, in New York.
Apple Inc distributed invitations to an event in San Francisco on September 12, setting the stage for what is widely expected to be the release of the iPhone 5.
Nokia and Microsoft Corp will take the wraps off the struggling European company's most powerful smartphone on Wednesday, in what may be their last major shot at winning back a market lost to Apple, Samsung and Google.