(Reuters) – Patent licensing company Wi-Lan Inc said a U.S. judge had ruled in its favor in a patent infringement claim related to handset products and high-speed packet access base stations. Wi-Lan had alleged that Alcatel-Lucent USA, HTC Corp and Sony Corp’s Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc had infringed four of its patents.

Tizen, the mobile operating system being developed by Samsung and Intel, can support programs written with Samsung’s Bada SDK as well as Android applications, The Handheld Blog reported. The operating system supports a program called Application Compatibility Layer (ACL), which is similar to Research in Motion’s Android player for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Open Mobile, the company behind ACL, claims Android apps will be able to run on a Tizen-powered device with 100% compatibility and feature the same responsiveness users would expect on a native Android device

Regulators in Nigeria have fined four mobile phone carriers a total of $7.3 million over poor service in a nation that depends on cellular phones for communications, a spokesman said.

Oracle Corp. has accused Google Inc.

Today’s kids are more tech-savvy than ever.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Wireless plans to put its marketing weight behind Microsoft Corp’s next mobile phone software to help develop a strong competitor to Apple Inc and Google Inc, according to the chief financial officer of Verizon Communications.

Joomla 3.0 is due in September and the team have been hard at work bringing the next era of Joomla to life.

Vodafone says its customers in parts of the Netherlands have been left without cell phone or mobile Internet coverage due to a fire near one of the mobile provider’s network centers.

Dragonplay, a free-to-play social games developer for smartphones and social networks, has raised $14M in a Series A funding from leading global venture capital firm Accel Partners.

(Reuters) – Google proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement of the mobile operating technology at an upcoming trial, but Oracle rebuffed the offer as too low, according to a court filing late on Tuesday.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Mobile , the world’s biggest wireless carrier by number of subscribers, met expectations by posting a 4.6 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday as higher mobile data usage offset some of the impact of hefty handset subsidies. The carrier, which has a market value of about $218 billion and competes with smaller rivals China Unicom and China Telecom Corp , could see growth accelerate later this year if it succeeds in sealing a deal with Apple Inc to offer the iPhone. ..

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against Apple Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad2 infringed on three of its patents.

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Appolicious – Mobile World Congress has brought quite a collection of new Android devices to the market, and that’s a win for gamers. Tegra 3 devices, with their quad-core processors, prove worthy of quality games

Reuters – Apple Inc, Google Inc and their vendors must do more to protect children using iPhones and other mobile devices to read or play games, U.S. trade regulators said, and warned they may punish software makers that secretly collect data on kids.

Appolicious – Mobile game maker Gameloft is responsible for some of the biggest-budget, biggest-name games on Google’s Android operating system (as well as Apple’s iOS), which is probably why it has 7 million registered players in its proprietary gaming network.

Facebook has 800 million users worldwide, and games like Farmville and Bejeweled have been played by millions. Popular iPhone apps like Words with Friends let users bring their mobile gaming results online as well

Yahoo is cleaning house on the mobile product side, announcing Friday that it is “decommissioning” a long list of mobile apps. Apps that will no longer be supported include winners like Yahoo! Meme and Yahoo Mim (say what?), as well as some more