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Viruses on mobile phones are still rare but nearly three-quarters of mobile phone users in developed countries are worried about security on their handsets, a survey showed on Wednesday.
The poll by IT security specialist McAfee, based on 2,000 people in Britain, the United States and Japan, revealed that only 2.1 percent of respondents had [...]

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The first mobile phones to use a new type of software developed by internet giant Google are set to be unveiled next week.
The sophisticated handsets will make it easier to browse the web and bring some of the programs and features usually found on home computers to mobiles. Some of the world’s leading phone [...]

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The mobile phone market has achieved a new milestone by shipping more than 300 million phones during the fourth quarter of last year. Roughly 334 million handsets were shipped during the holiday period, which is a new record in the industry. This is 15.3 percent more than the previous quarter. Roughly 1,144.1 million (1.1. billion) [...]

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The world without Razrs and Krzrs sounds like a dark and deprived place. This is exactly what we may be looking at. Motorola has consistently lost market share to Samsung, Nokia and Sony. After suffering a dramatic drop in mobile phone sales during the fourth quarter last year when compared with the [...]

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Even David “Goldenballs” Beckham’s promotional activity of Motorola products can’t help the mobile phone vendor’s Quarter 4 and full year 2007 results gloom in the handset division.
Company sales for the quarter were $9.65 billion for the quarter, up 9 percent sequentially but down 18 percent over the year. Gross margin was down 2 percentage points [...]