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Baidu , China’s largest search engine, will launch a new smartphone partnership next week, that will see the smartphone use an upgraded version of its mobile operating system, a senior company executive said on Friday.

Struggling cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday its new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 900 model, has a software bug which could cut off data connections, a setback to its ambitions to re-enter the U.S. smartphone market.

Smartphones are not being used by the majority of U.S. residents, but among mobile users, it looks like they have now outnumbered those on lower-end devices — or so consumers think — according to research from Pew.

France Telecom SA’s Orange unit will begin selling a smartphone based on an Intel Corp. processor this year, helping the chipmaker in its decade-long attempt to break into the mobile-device market.

BEIJING, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — KongZhong Corporation (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: KONG – News), a leading provider of digital entertainment services for consumers in China, today announced …

New estimates suggest Apple and Samsung combined are to take in a staggering 95% of smartphone industry profits in the fourth quarter of 2011. The figures paint an even bleaker picture for the rest of the players in the smartphone business than earlier estimates.

Demand for Apple’s iPhone 4S drove a fourth-quarter surge in global shipments of web-capable phones

Global smartphone shipments surged 55 percent in the fourth quarter, as demand for Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S countered declines by Research In Motion Ltd. and Nokia Oyj, International Data Corporation said.

The worldwide smartphone market grew 54.7% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2011 , as Apple unleashed its iPhone 4S on an eager marketplace. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 157.8 million units in 4Q11 compared to 102.0 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010.

BOSTON, MA– – Mobiquity , a professional services firm specializing in the design, build, deployment and management of innovative enterprise-class mobile solutions, today announced it launched a new Android …

McAfee today announced the next generation of McAfee® Mobile Security software, providing smartphone and tablet owners with more controls to preserve their privacy and protection against financial fraud, identity theft and viruses.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Everist Genomics announced today that Executive Vice Chairman Alex Charlton will speak about its breakthrough CardioDefender Device at the Wearable Technologies …

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Ap

Nokia Oyj, a year into an alliance with Microsoft Corp. to try to win back market share lost to Apple Inc., sold more smartphones last quarter than analysts predicted, sending the shares as much as 7.2 percent higher.