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I see that Stephen Elop's memo to Nokia employees about the current state of the company has been leaked. The 1,200-word message compares Nokia to a man on a burning ...

I was talking to the Sunday Times about mobile data rates when it struck me how far we've come in recent years. Back during the mobile industry's analogue days, the ...

Skype recently announced it would buy mobile video start-up Qik for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close during January 2011. Our surveys suggest that mobile video is ...

The persistent rumours that Sony is to release a PlayStation-based phone show no signs of abating as purported leaks continue to appear on gadget blogs. The most recent depicted a ...

Last week two important conferences were held on opposite sides of the globe. In London, the Financial Times held the FT World Telecoms Conference; in Hong Kong, the GSM Association ...

The rugged mobile phone has traditionally been a niche product aimed at a small number of people for whom a durable device is essential. Sonim's perhaps the best-known handset manufacturer ...

Last October I made a long, gruelling trek to the base camp of Mount Everest, braving blisters, altitude sickness and a never-ending supply of dal bhat (lentils and rice) to ...

Nokia's running an ad for its N8 phone at the moment. It shows the N8 on a remote-controlled helicopter and a toy train, playing Snake on a tower block, and ...

Steve Jobs' comments about tablets on Apple's third-quarter earnings call have once again opened up the debate on the future direction of this nascent category. Mr Jobs' sceptical remarks about ...

The past couple of years have not been kind to Vodafone in the UK. O2 and Orange are formidable competitors that seem to have outsmarted Vodafone at almost every turn ...