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UPDATE: Telecom Argentina profit up on internet, wireless sales

Wall Street Journal | February 22, 2011 | Shane Romig Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Telecom Argentina SA (TEO, TECO2.BA), one of the country's largest phone companies, saw its fourth-quarter net profit rise sharply on the back of higher broadband internet and wireless sales. Telecom...

China's Huawei 'in London Underground phones bid'

AFP | February 20, 2011 LONDON — Chinese technology giant Huawei is offering to install for free a mobile phone network worth £50 million on the London Underground train system in time for the 2012 Olympics, a report said Sunday. Huawei is presenting the offer --...

China’s Huawei ‘in London Underground phones bid’

AFP | February 20, 2011 LONDON — Chinese technology giant Huawei is offering to install for free a mobile phone network worth £50 million on the London Underground train system in time for the 2012 Olympics, a report said Sunday. Huawei is presenting the offer --...

Telstra profit misses estimates in battle with Optus

Bloomberg | February 10, 2011 | Robert Fenner and Chan Sue Ling Telstra Corp., Australia’s largest phone company, posted earnings that missed estimates as it accelerated spending to win back customers from the second- ranked Optus unit of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Net income fell 36 percent to...

New Global Texting Champions crowned at 2011 LG Mobile World Cup in New York City – Team Panama

LG | January 27, 2011 | Press Release SAN DIEGO, January 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — LG Mobile Phones crowned the winner of the second annual LG Mobile World Cup today, naming the sister duo, Cristina Sales Ancines, age 20, and Jennifer Sales Ancines, age 15,...

Portugal Telecom to Invest $5 Billion for 22% Stake in Telemar Norte Leste

Bloomberg | January 26, 2011 | Anabela Reis and Joao Lima Portugal Telecom SGPS SA agreed to buy at least 22 percent of Telemar Norte Leste SA, Brazil’s biggest phone company, for 8.32 billion reais ($5 billion) in cash, six months after selling its stake...

Chunghwa Telecom plans to phase out long-distance calls

The China Post | January 7, 2011 The China Post news staff -- Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's leading operator, is planning to phase out long-distance calls and create a system in which calls made to anywhere in Taiwan are charged at the local rate, reported the...

China's gray-market cellular shipments to decline in 2012, iSuppli predicts

China's gray market cell-phone shipments will total about 255 million devices next year, up 11.8% from 2010, but nothing compared to the huge 43.6% surge between 2009 and 2010, proof that a government crackdown against the illegal handset sales is working, according to research...

Cisco ships 30 millionth IP Phone

San Jose based Cisco Systems sometimes jokingly gets referred to as the “plumber of the internet” but with the firm having recently shipped its 30 millionth IP Phone and its new line of video phones and tablets set to take the world by storm, Cisco is proving that no matter how dumb the pipe, there’s nothing dumb about this plumber.

Betting on Facebook’s mystery mobile event

Will the social network be announcing the much-hyped-but-even-more-debunked Facebook phone? Will the big news be all about an iPad app, or other types of new mobile apps? Will developers be salivating at news of a new Facebook mobile SDK? Or will Foursquare be put into check by Facebook Places announcing special retail deals?

Samsung’s newest projector phone, the Beam

Our intrepid reporter, Carolyn Green, heads down to the gadget district in Daegu, Korea to check out Samsung’s latest local offering, the 3.3-inch AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600.

Samsung's newest projector phone, the Beam

Our intrepid reporter, Carolyn Green, heads down to the gadget district in Daegu, Korea to check out Samsung’s latest local offering, the 3.3-inch AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600.