Devices

Motorola has offloaded its enterprise-focused push email business, Good Technology, to push email specialist Visto for an undisclosed sum.

The New York Times reports that, at its annual shareholder meeting this week, Apple responded to inquiries about CEO Steve Jobs by saying that he still plans to return to the company in June.

According to a report from the Kelsey Group, as more consumers surf the Internet on handsets such as Apple's iPhone, the US market for local mobile search will balloon from US$20 million in 2008 to US$1.3 billion in 2013, reports Information Week.

Swedish 'flat-pack' furniture retailer IKEA is to launch mobile, fixed-line Internet and mobile broadband services in Spain, reports Telecompaper.

In a candid interview with the Financial Times (FT) published today, Motorola CEO Greg Brown said the majority of problems being suffered by the vendor "are our own doing" but the head man remains confident its troubled mobile device division can begin to show improvement in the second quarter.

New data from Gartner has revealed that mobile phone sales dropped almost 5 percent in the last quarter of 2008 as vendors struggled against low consumer confidence.

Nokia Siemens Networks has followed up its 3G TD-SCDMA contract win with China Mobile, announced last week, with news that it is gearing up to support the operator's eventual deployment of TD-LTE.