DT earned €459m in the quarter, down 58%, on revenues of €15.5bn, up 4%. The results are mixed; sales are slightly ahead of forecast in spite of strong demand in mobile, while profit is far less than the €773m expected. But DT is just one more in a growing...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Motorola, the smartphone would compete with PCs. More and more micro-applications are available for intelligent, hyper-connected mobile devices, mimicking PC evolution in the 80s. According...

Intel has agreed to invest $15m in Jajah. Microsoft will sell over $1.3bn worth of software to PC maker Lenovo. IBM will invest over $1bn in cutting power consumption in its data centers. Ecology is everywhere.

Siemens has announced its 100millionth Gigaset cordless handset in 12 years. Tellabs and NTELOS are partnering on GPON solutions. Juniper could be working on a new single chassis core router. Photop Technologies (start-up in China) has received a $13.5m...

Motorola is rumored launching next week a new wave of mobile handsets with advanced video capabilities. Will it overcome the current lack of 3G-enabled handsets in its portfolio? Nokia has launched a new feature: energy saving alert. When the battery...

ALU and Casema ( Cable operator in Holland) have successfully trialled Universal 802.16e WiMAX. Nortel has deployed WiMAX technology for Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan). EDX Wireless will provide OTE (Greece) with network planning tool to design its 3.5 GHz...

Nokia has signed a $2.5bn order from China Postell ( a large Chinese retailer with over 30% mobile phone market share) for handsets. Sony Ericsson won two deals in China; one to sell $521m worth of handsets to Shenzen Telling, and another for 5m handsets...

Joost, the web TV service, mixing peer-to-peer and video on demand, has raised $45m from five investors including Viacom, CBS. It can now display some 150 free TV programs, including Paramount, MTV, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, TV5....

Neuf Cegetel (France) has officially bought DT' s French unit Club-Internet for about €450m, and gained some 570k ADSL users. Free-hotspot.com and Teleprofi are partnering for building some 2000 new free hotspots in Germany by the end of 2007. Teleprofi...

MobiFone (Vietnam) is planning an IPO in early 2008. Warid Telecom has launched commercial mobile services in Bangladesh, covering 70% of the population. ROK has announced the first VOD mobile TV service over a GPRS network. ROK TV is currently being...