Research In Motion (RIM) today confirmed that the BlackBerry Storm - the vendor's first touchscreen device - will go on sale in the next few weeks to Verizon Wireless customers in the US and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Security software provider Symantec has signed a definitive agreement to acquire managed security services provider MessageLabs for US$695 million, reports Telecompaper.

Cellular News reports that major brands are looking to invest heavily in mobile marketing over the next five years according to a survey of large brands in the financial services, retail and manufacturing sectors commissioned by the UK arm of Telefonica O2.

NeuStar today announced that it has won a deal with Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong for creation of a messaging service that gives users access to Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and 3 Community from one central application on the mobile phone.

Ericsson today unveiled its latest energy-optimised radio base station site concept, a research project for a wind-powered Tower Tube.

The Symbian Foundation has announced that Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corporation, Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, TapRoot Systems and UIQ have become new members, taking total membership to 40 companies.

Telecompaper reports that Samsung and Korean state-run laboratory ETRI have enhanced WiBro technology, providing a downlink peak rate of 149 Mb/s and uplink peak rates of 43 Mb/s.