At its Sunday press conference at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, Spain, Mozilla - the not-for-profit organisation behind the Firefox web browser - announced that it will be launching mobile handsets running its own mobile-devices OS, the Firefox OS.

At its Sunday press conference, a day ahead of the official opening of the four-day 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, China-based device manufacturer Huawei Technologies unveiled its latest smartphone - the Ascend P2; which, as per the company's claims, is "the world's fastest smartphone."

According to a CNET report, Apple supplier Foxconn is planning to temporarily slow down the employee recruitment process in its factories in China; a move which comes at a time when there are apprehensions galore about the long-term demand for the iPhone 5.

According to a new report from security firm Mandiant, network intrusions originating in China have become quite commonplace; with at least 141 companies across 20 industrial sectors having been compromised by one single hacking organization based in Shanghai.

In its recently released 2013 Threat Report, Security Labs - the global research team at security firm Websense - has revealed that worldwide cyber-attack trends have been witnessing explosive year-on-year growth of late.

With the Chinese Lunar New Year coming up on February 10 this year, marking the approaching gift-giving season in the country, Finnish handset maker Nokia - which is aggressively trying to re-enter China - is facing supply shortages in the country.

Close on the heels of a Wednesday report in The New York Times (NY Times)that Chinese hackers, seemingly with government links, had broken into its computers, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said in a Thursday report that Chinese hackers had hit its computers too.

According to the latest statistics shared by International Data Corp (IDC), Shenzhen, China-based telecom biggie Huawei Technologies became the world's third-biggest smartphone vendor - after Samsung and Apple - during the 2012 fourth quarter.