According to a Newsbytes. ph report, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Philippines and Spain on cooperation in the field of Information and communications technology (ICT); with the collaboration to chiefly pertain to spectrum management, cyber security, disaster risk reduction, capacity building, and bridging the digital divide.

Highlighting the fact that a "major challenge" is being faced by the UK in increasing the number of women employed in tech industry, a business group - the EEF manufacturers' organization - recently said that the country needs to start a national campaign for encouraging more girls to study technology and engineering subjects, so that the number of women on company boards can be increased.

The findings of a study carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to survey the cellphone and texting habits of motorists, have revealed that even though the use of mobile phones while driving has been banned by many US jurisdictions, over two-thirds of the US motorists still follow the practice.

An Engadget report has apparently cleared the confusion surrounding the hardware of Chinese device market ZTE's Grand Memo smartphone, which was officially released by the company at the recently-concluded 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) - which concluded in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, February 28 - witnessed quite a few Chinese device makers, including Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corp and Lenovo Group, making a highly noteworthy impression.

During the course of a conversation with Reuters at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, two South Korean telecom executives cautioned the mobile operators in Europe about the potential problems that they may face with 4G networks.

Addressing the audience at the industry's annual forum, Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday the top-notch telecoms official of the European Union (EU) - the EU data commissioner Neelie Kroes - outlined plans for a unified mobile market in Europe.

During the course of an interview at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Calum MacDougall - chief of Xperia marketing at Sony Mobile - revealed that the Monday launch of Sony's high-end Xperia Z smartphone in a number of leading European markets has triggered a good sales start for the handset.