Microsoft and Sony Ericsson announced the combining of their technologies, to bring out a new smartphone, mainly as a competitor to Apple’s iPhone. The smartphone was launched by Sony Ericsson, under the name of Xperia X1. With this, the company, which was earlier working with Symbian mobile operating system (UIQ), unveiled its first Windows-equipped mobile [...]

Broadcom will enhance its mobile device chipsets and location-based services (LBS) infrastructure through a partnership with Skyhook Wireless, the company that powers the iPhone’s location feature using Wi-Fi access points.
In addition to being a major vendor of communications chips, Broadcom also operates an international infrastructure for location-based services that uses information from GPS (Global Positioning [...]

Last night saw the launch of the Samsung Omnia, the latest in the line of iPhone killers to be thrown at the wall, and it certainly raised a few eyebrows, if largely for all the wrong reasons.
My experience of the event ran like this. I was invited along - which is always nice - and [...]