Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s chief, with Pre and Pixi smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show last month. The new phones have been slow to catch on. … more

Sitting in a meeting room that looks out on a frozen Baltic bay, Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo mentions a biography he’s reading. It’s about Mauno Koivisto, the president who butted heads with his own Social Democratic Party en route to opening Finland’s 1992 bid to join the European Union. … more

Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones. … more

Telecom Italia has delayed the release of its 2009 results after the authorities seized €300 million from its Sparkle subsidiary in connection with a money-laundering scandal that has rocked the Italian business establishment. … more

Deutsche Telekom, the biggest European telecommunications operator, said Thursday that 2009 net profit plunged by more than 70 percent owing to asset devaluations of more than two billion euros (2.7 billion dollars). … more

César Alierta, chairman of Telefónica, would like to cure the malaise at the heart of the Spanish telecoms company’s Latin American empire. … more

France Telecom SA, the country’s biggest phone company, posted better-than-expected full-year profit, aided by cost cuts and new customers. … more

The FCC plans to free up a large swath of wireless broadband spectrum — totaling 500 megahertz — over the next decade, but for now, it won’t force television broadcasters to relinquish any airwaves, Congress Daily reported. Instead, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Wednesday that the agency will seek to incentivize TV stations and other licensees to give up bandwidth in exchange for a cut of the auction proceeds. Additional frequencies would be reclaimed through increased spectrum efficiency and sharing. … more

India will auction three slots each of third-generation wireless spectrum in most of its telecoms zones, including in the lucrative Delhi and Mumbai regions, from April 9, the telecoms ministry said on Thursday. … more

Remember when the Internet was supposed to kill off television? … more