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WASHINGTON - Research in Motion Ltd. captured more than 50 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the second quarter, up sharply from first-quarter levels, according to figures released Monday by technology research firm IDC.

NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. is making a big push to help customers understand their phones, creating a formal program to make store employees available to explain their products and set them up for buyers.

WASHINGTON - Comcast Corp. is appealing an FCC ruling that the company is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could determine the extent of the government's authority to regulate the Internet.

Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years.

NEW YORK - The hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast could be a test for the country's wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks.

Hutchison Telecom (SEHK 2332; NYSE:THX) announced interim results yesterday(19 Aug). Its major operations grow particularly from Israel, Hong Kong fixed-line and Thailand driving the group's total turnover up 22 percent to HKD 12 billion compared with the same period last year.

HONG KONG - Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (SEHK: 2332; NYSE: HTX) will report its 2008 interim results on Tuesday, 19 August. Chief Executive Officer Mr Dennis Lui and Chief Financial Officer Mr Tim Pennington will meet the press and take questions during the press conference....

NEW YORK - Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company.

NEW YORK - Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China.

HONG KONG (AP) -- China's leading fixed-line phone company, China Telecom, and its parent have signed a deal to acquire a wireless network and business for 110 billion yuan ($16 billion) as part of a recent shake-up of the country's telecommunications industry.

SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones.

FRANKFURT, Germany - Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Tuesday it would cut 16,750 jobs, or 4.2 percent of its global work force, to streamline operations and cut nearly $2 billion in costs in the face of a slowing economy.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Hong Kong-based software, gaming and Internet service provider CDC Corp. said Monday it agreed to buy Dynamic Business Consultants, a software company based in Australia.

NEW YORK - ADC Telecommunications said late Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit declined, citing a surge in expenses but offered a rosier outlook for the year.

Hong Kong's top fixed-line telecoms operator PCCW Ltd., chaired by tycoon Richard Li, planed to combine three key business into a new subsidiary and sell its 45% stake, said yesterday.

Vodafone Group's chief executive Arun Sarin, saying he has achieved what he set out to do when he took the position five years ago, is retiring to be replaced by deputy chief executive Vittorio Colao.

TOKYO - NEC Corp.'s profit for the fiscal year through March more than doubled from the previous year as the Japanese electronics maker's mobile phone and computer-chip businesses swung to profit.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Dan Hesse had little good news to share Monday on the eve of addressing his first shareholder meeting as chief executive of the troubled wireless carrier.