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India's authorities are investigating Bharti Airtel over allegations of money laundering, a government minister told the Parliament.

The USA wireless trade association, the CTIA, through its Common Short Code Administration (CSCA), has announced its partnership with Aegis Mobile to verify the identity of organizations that use premium short code campaigns.

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The study, commissioned by Broadcom, revealed that 60 percent of respondents cannot go a full day without Wi-Fi before seeking a connection.

Israel based Alvarion has reported a 28.4% drop in its first-quarter revenues of US$33.3 million, and a net loss of US$6.

T-Mobile USA has confirmed plans to cut a further 900 jobs, on top of the nearly 2,000 jobs lost earlier this year at its call centres.

HP has delivered an AppSystem for the SAP HANA database and related services to T-Mobile USA, which it says helped the mobile network operator shorten the time required to analyze information from more than one week to less than a day.

The Internet economy in the G20 nations is larger than the GDP of Brazil or Italy and is expected to nearly double to US $4.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that mobile network operators face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues -- nearly $300 billion -- to a combination of fraud and billing error by 2016.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner.

Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Over 80 percent of IT managers think that enterprises with a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy hold a competitive advantage over other organisations, according to research commissioned by the UK's dominant landline network, BT.

LG Electronics says that it is introducing a new User Interface (UI) for its newest Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices, aptly named Optimus UI 3.

Sony Mobile announced that Dennis van Schie has been appointed Corporate Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, reporting to President and CEO Kunimasa Suzuki.

According to an annual report by Virgin Media Business, 21 percent of the 5,000 businesses said they needed more Wi-Fi in stores to provide innovative sales offers and marketing promotions to customers.

Taiwan's HTC has confirmed that US Customs officials have delayed clearance for its new smartphones are part of a dispute over patent infringements.

Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.

Thailand's rapidly expanding smartphone market in the first quarter of this year recorded nearly 70 percent growth since a year ago, according to GfK Thailand's retail audit findings comparing smartphones quarter on quarter revenue performances.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority says that it has issued a formal warning to Global Billing Solutions (GBS), a provider of ringtones, games and competitions for mobile phones.

The market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is expected to partially reverse the drastic losses it incurred in 2011 and achieve revenue growth this year, the result of balanced supply and demand following the exit of major manufacturer Elpida Memory, Click here for more.