Nokia's new N97 touch-screen phone is full of cool features and functionality, but its design and unimpressive touch screen don't live up to Apple's iPhone.

An open-source mobile operating system from the Symbian Foundation won't be ready until 2010. In the meantime, it must find a way to crack America.

AT&T-branded phones will shift away from using Java over the next several years, and might start using an open-source version of Symbian.

Boxee, an all-in-one media center for your PC, is slowly gaining momentum as a go-to source for all of your videos, photos, and music. This week, the company has signed up Netflix so users can seamlessly stream movies on their computer by using their TV remotes. On this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Josh Lowensohn discuss why Boxee has the right ingredients to be a game-changer in how we watch our media.

Bernie Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom who is serving a 25-year prison term for masterminding an $11 billion accounting scandal, wants President Bush to lighten his sentence.

For the second time in a month, Nokia revises its forecast and tells investors that a slumping economy will hurt sales in the fourth quarter.

Kogan Technologies' Agora phone will be the first sold Down Under to run Google's mobile operating system. It has a keyboard, a touch screen, and 3G connectivity.

Market research firm Gartner reported Thursday that sales of smartphones have slowed to their lowest rate since it began tracking the sector.

Proximic has developed technology enabling users to point-and-click on a piece of text to get relevant search results, making it easier for mobile users to conduct complex queries.

Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, reduces sales expectations for its third fiscal quarter, citing economic troubles in the United States.

Stage is set for eventual release of open-source mobile operating system based on the Symbian OS and backed by several partners in the Symbian Foundation.

Company has launched its latest version of mapping and messaging services as it tries to build its mobile service business.

Nokia officially unveils the Internet-focused Nokia N97, a full-QWERTY smartphone with a touch screen. Will its style and substance compete with the iPhone, G1, and BlackBerry Storm?

Second-quarter revenue will be far lower than analysts had expected as sales of Treos continue to dwindle without Palm's next-generation operating system.

The two companies announce their joint-venture transaction is complete and roll out the new "Clear" brand for their planned 4G broadband network.

Word of the successful kernel porting was made on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete with instructions and source code. About the touch screen, though...

Provider of voice over IP and instant-messaging applications reportedly lays off 20 percent of its staff, or about 10 people.

The world's largest cell phone maker announces plans to stop making phones for one of the largest markets in the world, while branching into remote energy management.

Under the settlement agreement, Samsung will receive an InterDigital license to use its technology in all of Samsung's 3G related products through 2012.

Opera Software releases version 4.2 of its mobile software for Java phones just two weeks after introducing its beta and only one day after porting it to Google Android phones.

That a Windows Mobile phone may emerge running on an Nvidia chip is something that Nvidia has been saying since very early on.