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As mobile data traffic continues to increase, with more generated by home users, operators are under pressure to adopt either UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or femtocells, both of which have a lot going for them, according to their respective proponents.

Apple started selling its new iPhone 3G Friday, with crowds reported in locations from Tokyo and Europe to New York City, where the new faster phone went on sale at 8 a.m. local time.

As Thursday turned to Friday shoppers in Sydney were among the first in the world to pick up the new phone during a midnight event at a local Optus store.

Japanese Mac fans begin queuing in Tokyo for the iPhone's launch on Friday

Apple will launch its revamped MobileMe online service Wednesday night sometime between 6 p.m. and midnight PDT, the company said in a message posted to the current .Mac site.

The month has been notable not just for some of the cool new products that will be hitting store shelves soon but for a few interesting prototype products.

Femtocells - small cellular communications base stations -- will generate revenue of nearly $A5 million in 2008 from device shipments in the Asia/Pacific region, according to a new study from ABI Research.

The LiMo Foundation was formed on January 2007 as a consortium of mobile industry companies joining together to create for handsets an open and standardized software platform based on Linux. Their goal is to deliver an open handset format that will become more widely accepted and used over closed, proprietary platforms. The foundation's major founders include Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone. These companies and other members share leadership and decision making.

Yahoo's chairman, Roy Bostock, is leading a group of the company's board members in favour of accepting Microsoft's unsolicited $US44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a new report.

Japan's biggest mobile telecom carrier gave its strongest support yet to Google's Android platform on Thursday when it said it is considering a mobile phone based on the technology.

Verizon Business is expanding its network capacity to support the evolving voice and data needs of its multinational customers based in, or operating in, Australia.