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• Baidu Targets Google With Mobile Search App Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com is pre-installing a mobile service app on handsets, its latest blow to Google over mobile search in China.
• Apple Says No to the Droid's Red Glow Want the Droid's signature red glow to spruce up your iPhone? Apple won't let you have it.
• New Front Opened in India's Mobile Tariff Wars India’s Reliance has slashed SMS rates, opening a new front in the mobile tariff war in India.
• India to Set up Automatic Monitoring of Communications India setting up new system for monitoring communications in the country.
• Sept. 11 Pager Messages Published Online Wikileaks is publishing 573,000 pager messages sent nationwide on Sept. 11, 2001.
• App Store Statistics as Misleading as They Are Impressive Apple has some impressive numbers for total iPhone apps available and number of apps downloaded each month. The app store stats only tell part of the story, though.
• Palm, Sprint Pursue Lost Data From Pre, Pixi Palm and Sprint are trying to solve problems some users have had moving data from one Palm webOS device to another.
• 3G Means More Porn, China Laments Amid Cleanup China called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites on Wednesday as it blamed their rise on high-speed 3G mobile data services.
• China Hopes Taiwan 3G Test Will Boost Homegrown Technologies China expressed its hope that a 3G trial network in Taiwan will lead to more cooperation on technical standards between the two places.
• European Parliament Adopts Telecom Laws After Bitter Debate UPDATE: After two years of often bitter debate, the European Parliament approved a raft of new telecom laws Tuesday.
• Verizon Challenges Sprint Marketing Claim Fresh from its legal victory over AT&T's challenge, Verizon is starting a new battle against Sprint's marketing slogan. Verizon has a reason to fight for "most reliable".
• Taiwanese Company Launches TD-SCDMA Trial Network Taiwan's Vibo Telecom launched one of the first TD-SCDMA 3G mobile telecom trial networks outside of China on Tuesday.
• EU Drops Qualcomm Antitrust Investigation The European Commission has closed its antitrust probe of Qualcomm's patent licensing practices after Ericsson and others withdrew their complaints
• RIM, Motorola Latest Defendants in Visual Voicemail Suit Klausner Technologies has charged Motorola and RIM with patent infringement.
• Mobile Groups Protest Proposed Net Neutrality Rules Mobile groups raise concerns about proposed net neutrality rules.
• Third iPhone Worm Targets Jailbroken iPhones Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones.
• Apple's iPhone App Store Approvals a Necessary Evil Apple has taken some heat for the iPhone App Store approvel process. Love it or hate it, though, the App Store approval process is a necessary evil.
• Ciena Will Pay $769M for Nortel's Metro Ethernet Business Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's carrier Ethernet and optical assets.
• KT to Sell IPhone in South Korea South Korean carrier KT will start selling the iPhone this month, the company said Monday, bringing the hit device to another Asian country.
• Can Droid Phones Take Care of Business? Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris aren't strong on Exchange mail support, security, and configurability -- all needed for business use.
• Qualcomm's Updated 3G Chipset Coming to ThinkPads Lenovo will offer Qualcomm's latest Gobi multimode 3G (third-generation) mobile data chipset on ThinkPad laptops.
• Two Approaches to NFC Battle for French Hearts and Mobiles French network operators are counting on their SIM cards to put NFC in phones, while Twinlinx offers a self-adhesive Bluetooth device with similar functions.
• First Look: Dell Mini 3i Smartphone The first Dell smartphone to go on sale will be the Mini 3i, which will be available in China this December for about $700.
• Japan, South Korea May Soon Test TD-SCDMA Networks China Mobile is working with partners in Japan and South Korea on trial TD-SCDMA networks in a bid to promote the 3G mobile technology overseas.
• China Unicom 3G Growth Seven Times Faster Than China Mobile China Unicom's 3G service won over 1 million users in its first month, a level China Mobile only reached after seven months with its homegrown 3G standard.