BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has resurrected its bid to acquire digital encryption company Certicom, by doubling its bid to CAD3 (US$2.4) per share, reports Reuters.

Toshiba has unveiled the first mobile device based on Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' chip, reports Slash Gear. The touchscreen smartphone - known as the Toshiba TG01 - is based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 platform and is being seen as a potential competitor to Apple's iPhone.

Motorola used its Q4 results announcement yesterday to reveal further details on how it intends to turn-around its ailing handset division, which suffered a fourth-quarter operating loss of US$595 million after sales declined 51 percent to US$2.35 billion.

Unstrung has revealed details of network equipment suppliers being used by Vodafone and Verizon Wireless in their LTE trials.

Alcatel-Lucent swung to its eighth consecutive quarterly loss in fourth-quarter 2008 as it continued to suffer the effects of the weakening mobile equipment market.

Handset vendors shipped 289 million mobile phone units during Q4, 2008, 12.6 percent lower than the 330.8 million units shipped during the same period in 2007, reports the Boston Globe, citing figures from IDC. For the full year, shipments totalled 1.18 billion units, up 3.5 percent on 2007.

Vodafone Portugal has been testing data sessions using the new HSPA+ 64QAM technology, which makes it possible to use mobile broadband at a theoretical maximum download speed of 21.6Mb/s, reports Cellular News. The operator is expecting to launch commercial HSPA+ services later this year.