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The Wall Street Journal is weighing in on Dell's rumored smartphone offering, adding further weight to rumors predicting the PC maker will enter the arena to take on Apple's iPhone.

Sprint Nextel is eliminating 8,000 jobs in the first quarter as it seeks to pare costs by $1.2 billion a year.

Facing a potential legal showdown with Apple over its new multi-touch Pre handset, Palm this week vowed to fight back tooth and nail.

Tighter spending across the globe, and especially in China, have hit the world's biggest cellphone maker.

Qualcomm Inc. has acquired the assets that once made up Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s handheld business in a $65 million deal that's expected to help boost the cell phone chip maker' multimedia capabilities.

Fujitsu Japan has developed the F-01A [JP], the world's first cell phone that's waterproof and also features a security function utilizing fingerprint biometrics. In Nippon, it's part of the line-up of NTT DoCoMo, the country's biggest telecommunications company.