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Privately held Revenue Science will offer behaviorally targeted advertising services on Internet-browsing cell phones in Japan, entering a new field for sending commercials based on a consumer's Web habits.

Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, unveiled on Thursday its new phone model 6301, which features unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology.

Motorola Inc. is aiming to cut its quarterly research and development expenses for mobile devices 15 percent to help it return to profitability, the head of the company's handset business said on Friday.

Nokia said on Thursday that it started shipping a new phone to selected markets which features integrated global positioning capabilities and a number of multimedia functions.

Internet communications provider Yahoo Messenger (YHOO), and network equipment maker Linksys, are teaming up to bring lower cost telephony solutions to consumers, announcing a new phone on Thursday capable of making calls over the internet as well as traditional land-lines.

Demand for Motorola Razr phone have peaked, according to analysts, allowing Sony Ericsson to capture the crown as the worlds fastest growing and most profitable vendor for the first time in over a year.

Samsung Electronics announced a 10-megapixel camera phone to the South Korean market on Wednesday.

Mobile phones that emit a piercing scream that will give all but the deafest thieves pause for thought was launched in Britain on Monday in a bid to tackle crime which costs millions of pounds each year.

Publisher Hachette Filipacchi is testing a new mobile phone strategy with what may be its most colorful U.S. title: Shock magazine, home to photos of nuns practicing taekwondo and a polio-stricken dancing transvestite.

Research In Motion Ltd, the maker of Blackberry e mail devices popular among executives, said on Thursday it is pushing into a wider consumer market with the Pearl

Mobile phone operator Amena said on Wednesday it had reached a deal with The Phone House for the British firm to sell virtual mobile phone services in Spain.

Motorola, the top cell-phone provider in the United States, saw its market share increase in the second quarter, with growth nearly three times its larger rival, Nokia.

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., the largest mobile telephone provider in China, announced on Thursday that they and Google Inc. have been working together to bring internet search capabilities to China.

Microsoft Corp.on Thursday said it struck a deal to enable its Windows Mobile operating system to work with Qualcomm Inc.'s mobile phone chips, a move seen helping it gain more headway in the wireless business.