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Dell to sell smartphone, starting in China, Brazil [Yahoo!]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc is entering the smartphone market, with its first device to launch in China in late November, followed by Brazil toward the end of the year.

French iPhone user seeks probe into ;explosion; [Yahoo!]

CANNES, France (AFP) - � A French businessman who claims the screen of his iPhone shattered spontaneously has asked a court to appoint an independent expert to investigate the device;s safety, his lawyer said on Friday.

Yahoo! launches Spanish mobile home page [Yahoo!]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - � Yahoo! on Thursday launched a Spanish version of its Internet home page for mobile devices in a move to court the growing US Hispanic population.

Qualcomm announces multi-mode high-speed chips [Reuters]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday that it has started providing multi-mode high-speed wireless chips to customers on a trial basis as it looks to cash in on the move to next generation wireless services.

Samsung launching its own mobile OS [ZDNet]

In an interesting move, Samsung announced this week that it will launch its own mobile operating system called Bada in December, giving developers an open platform to create new apps for Samsung;s upcoming phones.

M;sian operator bets on new tariffs for 3G growth [ZDNet]

PETALING JAYA--In a bid to drive broadband adoption in the country, Malaysia;s DiGi Telecommunications has unveiled new tariff plans it says will attract more customers to its 3G mobile service.

Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices [ZDNet]

Verizon Communications customers who pirate music files may soon receive an unwelcome letter from the company.

Handset design house Indigo Mobile expected to close by year-end [Digitimes]

Taiwan-based handset design house Indigo Mobile Technologies, which has investments from MediaTek and Foxconn Electronics, is likely to close its doors by the end of the year due to weak performance, according to industry sources.

Gartner: Cellphone market decline over [Btimes]

HELSINKI: The fall in the handset market stopped in the third quarter, helped by clearing of inventories of unsold phones and booming sales on the so-called grey market in countries like China, research firm Gartner said.

Green Packet: RM500m more needed to widen 4G coverage [Btimes]

GREEN Packet Bhd (0082), which announced its third quarter results yesterday, will need up to RM500 million in capital expenditure (capex) in the next 12-18 months to increase its 4G Wimax coverage nationwide to 65 per cent.

DiGi unveils Turbo 3G for mobile phone users [Thestar]

PETALING JAYA: DiGi.Com Bhd, which has introduced the Turbo 3G service for mobile phones in the Klang Valley, expects Internet to be its key growth driver in two years, said chief executive officer Johan Dennelind.

Maxis eyes more mobile TV subscribers [Thestar]

KUALA LUMPUR: Maxis Bhd hopes to increase its mobile television (mobile TV) subscribers from the five million mobile Internet users it has currently with the introduction of Malaysia�s first made-for-mobile entertainment series, Dimensions.

Motorola eyes $4.5 billion home/networks unit sale: sources [Reuters]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc is in the early stages of looking into a potential sale of its $4.5 billion television set-top box and network equipment business, two sources said on Wednesday.

Nokia launches 3 phones for the CDMA standard [Reuters]

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world;s largest mobile phone maker Nokia launched three new CDMA phones on Wednesday and said it remained committed to the standard, which has long been overshadowed by the more global GSM.

Wal-Mart offers $100 gift card on BlackBerry purchases [Reuters]

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is offering a $100 gift card along with the purchase of a BlackBerry phone for one week, in its ongoing bid to attract more holiday shoppers.

Samsung handset focus to be on Windows Mobile, Android and Bada in 2010, says senior VP [Digitimes]

Samsung Electronics will continue to adopt Windows Mobile- and Android-based platforms for new smartphones launched in 2010, but will quit Symbian and adopt in-house developed open operating system Samsung Bada, according to senior vice president Don Joo Lee.

Smartphone batteries need ;breakthrough; [ZDNet]

HELSINKI--It will take "years" and a technology "breakthrough on multiple fronts" before the battery lives on smartphones will reach "good" levels, according to the head of Nokia;s research center, Henry Tirri.

Nokia targets 300M services users by 2011 [ZDNet]

HELSINKI--Nokia is targeting 300 million users on its mobile services by 2011, according to Heikki Norta, the company;s head of corporate strategy.

New software shows British TV live on iPhone [Yahoo!]

LONDON (AFP) - � British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself.

Google gifts US airports with free Wi-Fi [Yahoo!]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - � Google is giving the gift of free wireless Internet to travelers at a host of US airports this holiday season.