Ericsson Sales Dip, Profit Doubles Profits have more than doubled in the same period over last year, but sales fell by 8%.  Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg blames the downturn on shortages of critical components for building wireless networks, especially 3G and LTE.   Contributing to this is a hard hit from China in their telecom network equipment division.  Despite this, Vestberg sees future revenue growth from mobile broadband.

Vodafone Greece targets consumers with 3G femtocell service With this move the femtocell provider adds Greece to  Quatar, Spain, and the U.K., which makes it the femtocell leader in Europe.

Baidu Seeks Android Deal, China Listing The Bejing-based search giant is in talks with mobile handset providers that use the Android os about embedding a Baidu search box.  The Symbian Foundation is already in talks with Baidu to integrate Baidu search functions into Symbian.

Behind BBC Trust’s Apps Decision:  Paid Apps Are Screwed Anyway A market assessment that the BBC Trust commissioned from Mediatique came to the conclusion that the paid apps “goldrush” will be over in the next few years.  But perhaps Mediatique is “stretching optimism” just a bit.  Don’t count out paid apps yet.  Meanwhile, BBC launches its new Mobile News app, but only for iPhone and iPad. The Beeb says that apps for Android and BlackBerry will follow shortly.

Code for America Recruiting Tech Talent Now The U.S. Federal Government is putting out an open call to all tech professionals  to step up and help American cities and public sector organizations to improve efficiency.  Check out the Code for America site to find out more.

HP pushes tablets, new version of webOS After saying that it might back off from tablet production, Todd Bradley, executive v.p. of the personal systems group at HP, announced at the Fortune Brainstorm Conference, that the company would release multiple table devices later this year.    Palm also announced it plans to release webOS 2.0 later this year.