Motorola invests in Sequoia Comms, an RF semiconductor company. Cisco introduced two new security concepts: email "caller ID" and "self-defending" networks. Fixed networks: Nortel is teaming with IBM on converged multimedia (IMS) services. Mobile networks...

3G: the focus of the 3GSM World Congress was no longer on network technologies but instead on compelling applications. The market has shifted from trial and pre-commercial services to mass-market consumers from tier-one operators (64 UMTS networks in...

With mobile penetration is already almost flat in developed countries, recent growth pattern will only be sustained in the future if mobile offerings can match low income household revenues in developing countries. The GSM Association (GSMA), aware of...

Smartphones: Linux is making inroads in the mobile handset operating systems. Samsun g and Infineon will use it for their future 3G smartphone. PalmSource also plans to use Linux in its devices, since it bought China MobileSoft. Linux is still a baby...

A few set of market information released this week: [ Gartner reports that worldwide PC shipments are projected to reach a total 199 million units in 2005, a 9% growth on 2004. [ According to Synergy Research Group, WLAN equipment sales grew 30% in 2004....

SAR : The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has just published a new standard for testing cellphone radiation emissions. SAR is an index that quantifies the rate of energy absorption in biological tissue. For Europe , Japan and Korea , the...

IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) and FMC (fixed-mobile convergence): were real hot topics in the 3GSM World Congress this year. Both are related to the concept of managing and delivering services to fixed and mobile users across a single core...

HSDPA : another hot topic in Cannes ( France ). HSDPA stands for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. 'Super 3G' as it is sometimes called, is the first major enhancement to the W-CDMA 3G standard to achieve higher data rates (up to 10 Mbit/s) and lower...

World: there are currently 1.26bn GSM users in the world, according to GSMA. CDMA users hit 240m mark at the end of 2004, up 27%. Malaysia mobile subscriber base grew by 20% to 11m in 2004. Penetration is about 45%.

Ericsson named Hans Vestberg, current president of business unit Global Services, as executive vice president. Samsung named In-Soo Kim as the new CEO and President of Samsung Electronics Europe .