The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an import ban Friday on any Android devices from Motorola that infringe one of Microsoft's patents.

Hungary's parliament approved on Friday new taxes on mobile communications that will hit telecom operators that have already been burdened by so-called crisis taxes.

Analysys Mason attended the Connected TV Summit in London at the beginning of May. At previous events, most pay-TV operators feared over-the-top (OTT) services. However, at this Summit we saw multiple examples of pay-TV operators that are eagerly embracing OTT services as an extension of their multi-screen services. Compelling content will be a prerequisite for success when targeting new consumer segments.

Chinese Internet firm Alibaba Group is in talks with existing shareholders, including Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, to raise about $2.3 billion in equity to partly finance its deal with Yahoo Inc., two sources said.

Defying signs of a global slowdown, sales of mobile devices in the Middle East and Africa rose 16% in the first quarter, fueled a growing appetite for smartphones, while embattled Nokia Corp. remains the region's top handset vendor, according to research firm Gartner.

China may boast staggeringly large internet and mobile phone user numbers but the latest government figures show that the quality and speed of the services most are receiving still leave a lot to be desired.

The specification for the next generation of mobile DRAM was published Thursday, offering a 50% performance boost for makers of the memory technology.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that mobile network operators face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues – nearly $300 billion – to a combination of fraud and billing error by 2016. However, it argues that through the implementation of revenue assurance and fraud management solutions, network operators will be able to substantially reduce the scale of potential global leakage by more than $250 billion by that time.

Thailand inched closer to allocating 3G licences this week when the regulator gave the green light to a draft auction framework for 2.1-GHz spectrum.

Mobile operators worldwide should be preparing for an impending surge in traffic over the next several years,  with mobile users in 2016 consuming an average of 6.5 times as much video, over eight times as much music and social media, and nearly ten times as much games than in 2011.