Australia's government is backing an ambitious plan to build a new fiber-to-the-node network that will reach 98 percent of Australians and offer a minimum 12Mbps to all. But just how open will it be? Google has some thoughts.Read More[...]

Nokia and InterDigital have settled two patent lawsuits regarding wireless technology. Nokia sued InterDigital over some patents in 2005. InterDigital later countersued.[...]

Filed under: Handsets, Features, Motorola, Linux, GSM, EDGE Quick: name a Linux-based Motorola touchscreen phone that isn't widely distributed in North America. Oh, wait, that's all of them! In this case, "all of them" includes the little A810, a phone that's been kicking around the rumor mill since way, way [...]

Skype announced that it has appointed former Motorola executive Scott Durchslag as the company’s new COO.[...]

Agito Networks, the enterprise fixed-mobile-convergence (eFMC) venture founded by a clutch of former Cisco executives, picked up $13 million in second-round venture capital just eight months after bursting onto the scene. The young company, whose first and, so far only, product is the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router (an eFMC[...]

A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined a plan by a group of major technology and communications companies to build a group defence against patent infringement lawsuits. Verizon Communications, Google, Cisco Systems, Telefon AB, Ericsson, and Hewlett-Packard are named as the core companies building the group, the Allied[...]