ELECTRONICS

A report by predicts that, fueled by offerings from emerging firms, shipments of entry-level smartphones will increase.

Apple became the third largest PC vendor in the fourth quarter of 2010, helped by strong sales of iPad and Mac as well as fast growth in the Asia Pacific region, according to the latest report from Canalys.

Morgan Keegan upgraded Qualcomm Inc. to outperform from market perform, a day after the CDMA chip maker reported strong quarterly results and boosted its fiscal 2011 outlook.

U.K. start up Ubiquisys has rolled out a portable cell phone signal - dubbed the attocell - that allows people travelling abroad to make and receive calls as if in their home country.

Plantronics celebrated its 50th anniversary by adding spunk to unified calling by launching its Voyager Pro UC Bluetooth headset just days after Jawbone released its first motion-controlled Bluetooth headset ERA

Features of Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP) a.k.a PSP2 include 5-inch OLED screen, microdual analog sticks, 3G, WiFi, memory card, cameras, touchscreen, touchpad, locations and Game franchises.

British femtocell company Ubiquisys rolled out a new smartphone accessory – the attocell, a personal cell phone signal that allows international travellers to make and receive calls without paying roaming charges.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei won a partial victory in its fight to block Motorola's $1.2 billion sale of assets to Nokia Siemens Networks, as the court granted an order to stop the transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.

The Department of Justice was reprimanded today by the U.S. Congress for suggesting the necessity of the Internet Data Retention legislation, which if passed would require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to preserve records of user activity longer, but failing to provide more details on how it could aid in criminal investigations.

4G may be the future for the next generation of mobile users, but many early adopters of the newest 4G devices wonder if their batteries will last that long.

Microsoft has decided to go the exact opposite way from Apple with regard to jailbreakers of the Windows Phone. Microsoft is awarding hackers of its Windows Phone 7 a t-shirt and a free phone.

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.

A report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas says tech sector is losing jobs at the slowest rate in the last decade, possibly presaging a quicker recovery in that field.

Telecom services provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. filed a lawsuit on Monday against Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks for intellectual property infringement.

RadioShack Corp. (RSH) stock is plunging on news that its chairman and chief executive officer, Julian Day, will retire in May. The company also posted preliminary fourth-quarter earnings that fell below analyst’s expectations.

Robert W. Baird downgraded rating of OmniVision Technologies Inc. (OVTI) to 'neutral' from 'outperform' with a price target of $34, based on limited upside potential near-term.

Want a Red, Blue, Pink or White iPhone 4? A Florida-based company is offering a new service called iColors for the iPhone.

Facebook, twitter, iPhone, smart phone, travel apps, mobile phones with GPS and in-built camera, and more are supposedly the new arms of today’s travelers around the world.

Verizon has fired the first salvo against net neutrality, appealing the Federal Communications Commission rules in the courts.

One out of every five cellphones sold in the world are illegal or unlicensed copycats, hurting the position of producers like Nokia in emerging markets, the world top manufacturer by volume said on Friday.

Japan’s Sony Corp on Thursday said a streaming video service will become available in Japan on January 26 across Sony 2010 and 2011 network-enabled Bravia TVs.