Motorola's Mobility unit has filed suit against Apple with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that the iPhone, iPad and iTouch infringe on Motorola patents.
Thailand's CAT Telecom may blacklist ZTE and Marubeni Thailand after the vendors failed to complete the 2.1b baht ($70m) rollout of a fiber backbone network by the March deadline.
India has now passed 700m telecom service subscribers, according to regulator Trai. Mobile users hit 670.6m at the end of August, representing a monthly growth rate of 2.79%.
Taiwan handset maker HTCdoubled third-quarter income to just under NT$11.1b ($361m), thanks to strong sales of its Android phones.
Cisco has launched ūmi telepresence, a consumer version of its videoconferencing solution that delivers telepresence services over existing HD TVs and broadband connections.
Hong Kong's CSL has started taking pre-orders for Nokia's new N8 smartphone. CSL will offer the N8 through both its 1010 and one2free mobile brands.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer has fallen below a 50% share of the worldwide browser market, mostly due to the EU's restrictions on bundling IE with Windows, according to StatCounter.
Motorola has unveiled six new Android-based smartphones, and an updated version of its existing Droid handset, at the CITA event in San Francisco.
Wholesale satellite capacity provider AsiaSat has contracted International Launch Services to launch the AsiaSat 7 – a replacement for its flagship AsiaSat 3S satellite - in 2011.
Telecom Fiji has confirmed it is disconnecting users who have failed to register their mobile phones as required under new national legislation. Operators which do no not suspend unregistered services face a fine of FJ$200,000 ($107,000) per subscriber.