Stephen Elop, Nokia’s chief executive, says the company will continue focusing on developing markets, where a large portion of the population is not yet using the mobile Web.

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Bits: Nokia Wants to Bring 3 Billion More Online

Newest mobile phone technology to go on show in Spanish city

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Viva Barcelona

British engineers are planning to fly a mobile phone in space to test the capability and resilience of today’s consumer electronics.

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Mobile phone to be blasted into space

The glow of a mobile phone led to mountain rescue team members finding a father and son lost at night in Snowdonia.

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Mobile glow mountain rescue key

Staff at an aquarium in Ukraine fear for one of their crocodiles after it ate a mobile phone dropped into its enclosure by a visitor.

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Ukraine crocodile eats mobile phone

The spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann is to contact the police after he believes someone attempted to access information about his mobile phone account and voicemail.

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McCann spokesman’s phone security fear

Google says it will fix a mobile phone bug that sends text messages to the wrong people.

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Google phone bug misdirects texts

A bug hits French mobile phone customers, prompting some to send dozens of unintended new year messages.

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New year bug hits French texters

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he has “nothing to hide” over an inquiry into the sale of mobile phone licences for a fraction of their multi-billion dollar value.

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India PM ‘happy’ to face 2G panel

Two men are jailed for life for the murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death in a row over a mobile phone in Manchester.

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Mobile phone row murderers jailed

India’s telecommunications minister quits over claims that licences were improperly given to mobile phone firms – allegations he denies.

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India telecoms minister resigns

A man filmed on a mobile phone putting his nephew’s cat in a microwave then tumble drier and finally a freezer is jailed.

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Man jailed over cat in microwave

A passenger’s mobile phone footage shows the damage to the wing of Qantas flight QF32, which was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore shortly after take-off.

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Qantas pilot: "The aircraft is secure"

Climbers of Mount Everest can now make video phone calls and surf the internet through a 3G mobile phone network, a Nepalese telecoms provider says.

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Everest climbers get 3G network

Are mobile phone time displays killing off the wristwatch?

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11th hour