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  Mobile handset market to decline 8% this year says IDC

  After years of growth, the global market for mobile handsets will contract by about 8 percent this year although smartphones will remain a growth area, according to a new forecast from IDC.

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  Gartner: Smartphone growth continues to slow

  Sales of smartphones increased by 3.7 percent during the fourth quarter last year, compared to the same period in 2007, according to Gartner.

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  Ballmer promises faster Windows Mobile development

  Under pressure from popular phones from Apple and Research In Motion, Microsoft hopes it has put in place changes that will help it meet that mobile competition faster, said CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday.

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  Hacking contest to pay $10,000 in cash for smartphone bugs

  A hacking contest slated for next month will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break into the most popular smartphones, including Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry.

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  Nokia, Qualcomm to work on smartphones together

  The world's largest mobile phone vendor and the biggest cellular chip developer said Tuesday they plan to make 3G (third-generation) mobile devices together for the North American market.

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  Sony Ericsson, Samsung Battle for Megapixel Supremacy

  How many megapixels can you squeeze into a cell phone? On the eve of the big Mobile World Congress wireless telecom trade show here in Barcelona, Spain, the race is on. At pre-show press conferences, Samsung and Sony Ericsson between them unveiled th...

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  Australian company unveils Dick Tracy-style watch phones

  Adelaide-based company NV Phones today launched a range of 10 mobile phone "smart" watches Sydney's Darling Harbour. "I can see in 10-20 years this will actually take over handheld phones", said NV Phones CEO Anthony Cook.

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  Samsung plans new netbook, smart phones

  Samsung Electronics plans to follow-up its NC10 netbook in the coming few months with a new model and expand its range of smart phones with models based on a number of different operating systems, it said Friday.

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  Smartphones key as phone vendors regroup

  The fourth quarter wasn't a good one for the mobile phone manufacturers, and now they are looking to smartphones to save the day.

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  HTC's Touch HD launches in Australia

  HTC today announced the launch of its latest smartphone in Australia, the Touch HD.

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  Kogan "indefinitely" delays Google Android-based smartphone

  Melbourne-based company Kogan today announced that its Android-based smartphones, the Agora and the Agora Pro, have been "delayed indefinitely". The cancellation, announced on the company's blog, comes only two weeks before the phones were meant to b...

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  Dude, you're getting a Dell smart phone!

  Okay, we're a bit premature here. But that might happen if one analyst's prognostications are true. According to an Electronista report, Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. is predicting that Dell is getting closer to launching its first smart phone, although ...

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  New Palm handset and OS coming on Thursday?

  Palm is set to preview this week its latest incarnation of mobile operating system - Nova - in a bid to re-ignite the company as a smartphone leader. Latest developments say that Palm will also release a new device that runs Nova as well. The unveili...

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  IPhone, economy spur better phones, apps

  Just two years ago, the mobile phone market was pretty ho-hum. You had your candy bar phones and your flip phones. There were BlackBerry devices and Windows Mobile phones. Those phones had calendars and contact lists, and a few other apps that were t...

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  Sluggish economy hurts smartphone sales in Q3

  The struggling global economy has taken a toll on worldwide smart phone sales in the third quarter, with sales growth the weakest in four years, according to new data from <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&amp;sear...