4 billion SMS messages in a day

Twice a year, the organization representing the wireless industry puts out
a bunch of facts and figures on how much we're using our phones in the
U.S., and each time, I can't help but marvel at the results.

The big number this time around, according to the CTIA: In the past six
months alone, Americans sent an estimated 740 billion text messages, which
comes out to about 4.1 billion messages each day.

Put another way: That's 11.7 text messages a day for every man, woman, and
child in the country. (Of course, the average American teen can fire off 11
text messages in the time it takes you to read this paragraph.)

Or, how about this: An SMS has a maximum capacity of 160 characters, so
let's say (for the sake of example) that your average text message is about
80 characters long. And let's assume that your average novel contains about
100,000 words, and each word has about five letters.

Six charged by Federal prosecutors

Federal prosecutors have charged a prominent hedge-fund manager and five
others with securities fraud resulting from insider trading involving some
of the tech industry's best-known companies, including Intel, Google, and
IBM.

Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group was arrested Friday in New York according
to various reports and charged with 13 counts of securities fraud and
conspiracy following a FBI investigation into Galleon Group's trading
patterns. Also charged in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New York, were co-conspirators Rajiv Goel of Intel
and Anil Kumar of McKinsey, which provided consulting services to AMD.

ITC ruling case - Nokia wins

InterDigital, the King of Prussia, Pa., provider of wireless-technology
solutions and products, filed a complaint with the ITC, charging that Nokia
was selling certain third-generation cellular handsets and parts that
infringed four InterDigital patents.

On Friday, the companies said in statements that the ITC had reviewed and
affirmed the decision of an ITC administrative law judge that Nokia's
products did not infringe InterDigital's patents.

Nokia also said in its statement that the ITC "withdrew the portion of the
[administrative law judge's] initial determination that had found the
patents valid."

The Espoo, Finland, company /quotes/comstock/13*!nok/quotes/nls/nok (NOK
13.48, -0.20, -1.46%) said that InterDigital had asserted that its patents
were essential elements of the UMTS third-generation mobile standard. The
ITC decision is consistent with a "previous judgment in the U.K. that found
several InterDigital patents not to be essential to the UMTS mobile
standard," Nokia said.

NokiaSiemens won a network expansion order from UCell

NokiaSiemens Networks informed on Monday that it has won a network
expansion order from UCell, the number two mobile operator in Uzbekistan,
but did not disclose the value of the deal.