 |  | Industry & Business News   |  | Welcome to the Industry and Business News section. This section lists news items relating to general market news. |  |  | | Standards Forum LiPS Folded Into LiMo (01 July 2008) |  | | The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum that, as of this month, its membership and activities will be folded into the LiMo Foundation, in a bid to further support and unify the growing momentum of Linux platforms in the mobile market. |  |  |
 | | Payment For Goods Via Mobiles To Boom (01 July 2008) |  | | Payments made via mobile phone for digital goods, including music, tickets and games and physical goods, such as gifts and books will exceed $300bn globally by 2013, according to a forecast by market research company Juniper Research. |  |  |
 | | Personal Navigation Sales Beat Expectations (27 June 2008) |  | | Worldwide shipment growth of personal navigation devices (PNDs) beat expectations last year, with shipments reaching 30.7 million in 2007, up from 13.3 million in 2006, according to a report. |  |  |
 | | Challenges Still Face Fixed Mobile Convergence (26 June 2008) |  | | The benefits of seamless roaming between wireline and wireless networks is gaining momentum, but many challenges remain before Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is widely deployed, according to a report. |  |  |
 | | Wireless HDTV Next On The Home Agenda (20 June 2008) |  | | Wireless HDTV (high-definition Television) is next on the home agenda, however the market is still at its ‘incubation’ stage, according to a report. |  |  |
 | | The Emergence Of Mobile Internet Devices (20 June 2008) |  | | The Mobile Internet Device (MID) that serves a gap between high end smartphones and ultra-portable OCs (UMPCs) is a fast emerging market, according to a report. |  |  |
 | | GCT & Green Packet Demo Connectivity For WiMax And WiFi (20 June 2008) |  | | GCT Semiconductor and Green Packet Berhad (Green Packet) are working on the world’s first intelligent connection management solution that delivers seamless connectivity and handover between WiMAX and WiFi. |  |  |
 | | South American Mobile Data Revenues In For Big Rise (20 June 2008) |  | | Increasing adoption of messaging and content services is forecast to push operator-billed data revenues in South America from $8.7 billion in 2008 to more than $23.3 billion by 2013, according to a report. |  |  |
 | | WiMAX Appeals To Consumers (12 June 2008) |  | | WiMAX provides the right mix of features and pricing to appeal to consumers, according to a study. |  |  |
 | | UK: Workshop Overview Of STM32 MCU & ARM Cortex-M3 (10 June 2008) |  | | RS Components is to host a free customer workshop this month at its centre in Oxford, UK to introduce the STM32 microcontroller system architecture from STMicroelectronics and ARM’s Cortex-M3 Macrocell. |  |  |
 | | Worldwide 3G Mobile TV Services Growing Steadily (10 June 2008) |  | | Global 3G mobile TV services are growing steadily, but whilst mobile operators can rely on their own network and offer more channels via 3G mobile TV streaming services the video quality still is not as consistent as other mobile TV technology, according to a report. |  |  |
|  |
|  | |