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The Motorola Razr Maxx will launch in Europe in early May promising incredible battery life.

If passed by Parliament, price drops could start as soon as July this year

The HTC One X goes on sale in April, but which network and tariff is the best for you?

A well-made smartphone with a 4in touchscreen, 8 megepixel camera and quality design for those on a budget.

Growth remains the focus in Europe: supply concerns help boost oil prices

Virgin Media will bring its Wi-Fi network to 80 stations throughout the London Underground network in time for the 2012 Olympics.

The House of Lords has proposed to cut mobile roaming charges across the EU.

The new iPad goes on sale next Friday, but with a range of network deals available, which is best for you?

Nokia gambles both ways with the future, but will it be Lumia or Asha that wins big?

Complete review of MWC, with Alastair Stevenson reporting from Barcelona and Alistair Charlton from London, for International Business Times UK.

Following Huawei's quad-core fiesta, Sony unveils own dual-core Xperia U and P smartphones.

Hot on heels of Nokia's Lumia 610 smartphone, ZTE announces the Orbit, a Windows Phone device aimed at the budget market.

Huawei's Ascend D Quad is fastest smartphone in world, but iPhone 5 could soon steal title back.

Nokia announces 808 Pure View smartphone, featuring 41-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

British smartphone users could get their hands on ultra-fast 4G browsing speeds before the end of the year, as the country's biggest network announces major steps forward.

Privacy campaigners petition government to abandon Communications Capabilities Development Programme to monitor online activities.

As part of it and Huawei's Western invasion, Chinese tech company ZTE has added the Mimosa X to its MWC red smartphone army.

Apple Inc's booming China market share has plunged for the second consecutive quarter in October-December, losing out to cheaper deals from local brands like Huawei and ZTE, according to Reuters. The local brands have been promoting their products aggressively through the channel service partners for quite some time now.

Morgan Stanley has issued a report clarifying its belief that 2012 shipments of Nokia's new series of Windows Phones will break the 64 million milestone by the end of 2013.

Following the car explosion in Iran that killed a nuclear scientist in Tehran, prominent Anon Sabu has threatened Israel on his Twitter account.

Study finds huge majority of UK companies negative about economic effects of 2012 games.

With Nokia finally having unveiled its U.S. Lumia 900 Windows Phone, analysts have already begun to question whether the device will be able to reverse the company's reportedly ailing fortunes.

More than one million ebook readers were opened on Christmas Day in the UK and a staggering 92 per cent of these were Kindles, underlining Amazon's dominance in the ebook sector.

Super-fast 4G mobile broadband will not be widely available in the UK until at least 2015, according to Ofcom's annual plan for 2012 to 2013.

From a hacktivist collective to a global political movement, Anonymous has dominated every cyber-crime related debate of this year, changing forever the face of online activism. But the collective has also stirred a controversy for its radical methods in South America, where it declared war against the drug cartels that dominate the region. Not to men...

Having fought an election campaign for six months on a bitter message of austerity, the new Spanish Prime Minister and leader of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, now faces the difficult part.

Having just wrestled the crown of world's favourite smartphone maker from Apple, speculation has turned to the next quarter, with analysts questioning whether Samsung's Galaxy Nexus will be able to keep the Apple iPhone 4S hordes at bay.

According to the two companies' quarterly financial statements, Samsung has won the title of world's top smart maker, with its current line of smartphones outselling Apple's iPhone.

The Indian police have arrested anti-corruption campaigner and Mahatma Gandhi disciple Anna Hazare for pledging to go ahead with a hunger strike against a proposed new anti-corruption law.