Facebook is about to unveil a new feature next week, most likely in the mobile or tablet sector, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social networking giant. In a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday, Zuckerberg told reporters that the company plans to "launch something awesome" next week. The project has been designed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California, said Zuckerberg.

A new report from ABI Research says that over 60% of the world’s population will be able to access some form of 4G mobile broadband technology by 2015. According to ABI analyst Neil Strother between LTE and WiMAX, 4G technologies will reach an estimated 4.4 billion people within the next five years. This will make up more than double the 2 billion people today who currently have access to 3G mobile data technologies such as HSPA or EV-DO Rev. A, he says. ABI estimates that around 770 million users around the world today have access to either WiMAX or LTE services.

Qualcomm Inc., a leading provider of B2B wireless enterprise applications and services, on Tuesday represented OmniOne+ fleet management solution for the European market at the Salon International du Transport et de la Logistique (SITL) Temps Réel 2009 in Paris. 

Gemalto, the world leader in providing digital security, announced today its UpTeq™ mobile TV SIM card to be the first to earn the security certification that meets the SIMalliance Security Guidelines. These guidelines apply to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (BCAST) Smart Card Profile (SCP) mobile television products. 

Quattro Wireless announced global expansion of its premier mobile ad network to Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Asia. The network includes wide range of services from exclusive brand publishers to top application providers

Discover® Card has announced today the launch of Discover.com Mobile, a mobile solution for cardmembers. This mobile version of the Discover Card Web site will allow cardmembers to manage their credit card account directly from their mobile phone’s browser.  The new mobile Web site offers a simplified version of the Discover.com account summary interface and includes the following functionality: 

Yahoo! is benefiting from the opportunities available in the mobile Internet sector in India. Today the PC to Mobile ratio is 2:11 and the Indian mobile market is the fastest growing mobile market with nearly 10 million mobile subscribers added in November 2008 alone! But the difference in OS supported by mobile devices causes some obstacles in further developing additional services as long as non standardization in mobile results in that the content providers and advertisers suffer OS specification constraints and fail to reach all mobile users.