Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao addresses Mobile World Congress. Marguerite Reardon/CNET BARCELONA, Spain–Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao …

LG MWC open house +12 more See all photos BARCELONA, Spain–You might say that LG had a quiet Mobile World Congress–it didn’t announce new handsets and it didn’t have a presence on the show floor–but the manufacturer didn’t skip Barcelona entirely. In the modern setting of Barcelona’s Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, the company showed two handsets, the Mini GD880 …

BARCELONA, Spain–Google CEO Eric Schmidt extended an olive branch to wireless-network operators as he took the stage Tuesday afternoon here at the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress. Schmidt delivered his speech hours after the CEO of the world’s largest mobile operator, Vodafone, suggested in his own keynote address that Google was getting too powerful in the mobile value chain. Earlier …