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February 24 2010 - 11:19 am ET | Dan Meyer
Clearwire Corp. released fourth quarter and full-year 2009 results this morning showing the financial strains of launching a new wireless service, but backed by positive signs that its WiMAX service is starting to attract ... Read More »
January 27 2010 - 6:00 am ET | AFP
Motorola said that China buyers of its Android-driven smartphones can opt for local search engine Baidu instead of Google, the Internet giant behind the mobile software platform. ... Read More »
January 20 2010 - 11:54 am ET | Dan Meyer
The mobile advertising war brewing between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. took on a smaller rival today as Opera Software said it had acquired AdMarvel Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Oslo, Norway-based Opera said the deal will ... Read More »
November 24 2009 - 12:52 pm ET | Roger Cheng
Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Dan Hesse often refers to "doubling down" on the pre-paid market when he talks about the company's pending purchase of Virgin Mobile USA Inc . The deal, expected to close Tuesday, remains a ... Read More »
November 18 2009 - 1:08 pm ET | Tracy Ford
The Federal Communications Commission is starting to quantify gaps in U.S. broadband access as the agency moves forward in trying to develop a National Broadband Plan, which is due to Congress in 90 days. Gaps cross a diverse ... Read More »
November 11 2009 - 10:26 am ET | Craig Settles
Word hit the streets yesterday from the National Telecommunications Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Services that there's only going to be one more round of broadband funding. Nothing earth-shaking here. It's ... Read More »
October 21 2009 - 11:23 am ET | Dan Meyer
The carrier-led Joint Innovation Lab project announced that four handset manufacturers have agreed to support its widget specification in devices beginning next year. The device manufacturers include LG Electronics Co. Ltd., ... Read More »
September 29 2009 - 11:51 am ET | Tracy Ford
As it tries to draft a national broadband communications plan, The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on how broadband access touches a variety of segments in the United States, including first responders and ... Read More »
September 28 2009 - 11:26 am ET | Tracy Ford
AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. ratcheted up the volume in an ongoing war of words over net neutrality and the Google Voice application. In documents filed Friday, AT&T went on the offensive, saying that Google Voice fails to comply ... Read More »
September 16 2009 - 10:39 am ET | Peter Ryan
The competition watchdog says Australia's 16 million telecommunications consumers will be the "clear winners" from greater competition and tighter regulation of Telstra. The chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer ... Read More »
September 14 2009 - 12:17 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Sprint Nextel Corp. is targeting businesses with new pricing and a new business unit. The No. 3 carrier said it added unlimited wireless-to-wireless calling to its business customers in new Sprint Business Advantage programs, ... Read More »
September 1 2009 - 9:31 am ET | Tracy Ford
The government said it received almost 2,200 applications totaling $28 billion in broadband stimulus package requests. “Applicants requested nearly seven times the amount of funding available, which demonstrates the substantial ... Read More »
August 20 2009 - 11:16 am ET | Tracy Ford
Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Inc. announced their joint venture company focusing on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications would be named nPhase and headed by the original company’s president, Steve Pazol. ... Read More »
August 4 2009 - 11:07 am ET | Jean-Louis Carrara VP of business development for telecommunications, Gemalto North America
The iPhone. The BlackBerry Storm. The Android. The Palm Pre. When we think about these phones, we think AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively. Phone exclusivity is a major headache for consumers who want ... Read More »
February 26 2009 - 4:41 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Verizon Wireless customers can once again directly access services from mobile content retailer Myxer. The nation’s No. 1 wireless provider pulled its support of Myxer last summer, claiming the service was distributing porn and ... Read More »
February 26 2009 - 10:49 am ET | Rita Chang
Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore study has found that assumption is not necessarily the case. How often you are ... Read More »
February 26 2009 - 11:17 am ET | Dan Meyer
So according to Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse, the nation’s No. 3 wireless operator is not interested in a price war and somehow thinks it can compete against its rivals on a level playing field populated by unicorns, teddy bears ... Read More »
February 26 2009 - 10:46 am ET | Tarmo Virki
The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday. ... Read More »
February 25 2009 - 6:00 am ET
Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere . I've spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder that ABI Research forecasts sales of 35 million netbooks this year, more than double the 15 million ... Read More »
February 23 2009 - 11:45 am ET | Gary E. Salazar
The billions of dollars set aside in the government’s stimulus bill to promote broadband access across the country may help create thousands of new jobs — and wireless firms are already evaluating the legislation for potential ... Read More »
February 19 2009 - 11:24 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Google Inc. launched a version of its mobile search application for Windows Mobile devices. Google Mobile App allows users to search without separately opening a browser and offers a search history and suggestions in an effort ... Read More »
February 19 2009 - 11:41 am ET | Kristen Beckman
Verizon Wireless launched a new Web site capability that allows its customers to access the Web from their mobile phones using its Mobile Web service and get the same sites they would get using their personal computers. The ... Read More »
February 19 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Phil Carson
Dell’Oro Group Inc. analyst Ben Kwan forecast in December that various factors will drive growth in the wireless local are network (WLAN) market for enterprise this year. “While a slowdown in the growth of new WLAN deployments ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 10:55 am ET | Colin Gibbs
The GSM Association and five European carriers are hoping to spur mobile marketing with a common system for measuring activity on the wireless Web. Orange, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3 are behind an effort ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 11:09 am ET | Allie Winter
Sprint Nextel Corp., which continues to wedge itself in as the cheaper wireless solution, has put two of its popular plans together and taken $10 off the total price. The carrier announced its new offering, Simply Everything + ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 11:47 am ET | Phil Carson
Since the settlement last year that ended the industry’s highest-profile cross-licensing battle, Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have been expected to cozy up. Now it’s official. Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, and ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 11:32 am ET | Allie Winter
Cricket Communications Inc. continues its nationwide rollout with its Chicago launch today, bringing its total covered pops to 77.5 million. The carrier, parented by Leap Wireless International Inc., is scheduled to double its ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 10:32 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become “your starting point to the Internet.” The company launched a beta version of Yahoo Mobile, a wireless Web destination that combines existing Yahoo ... Read More »
February 13 2009 - 11:47 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down. The Finnish manufacturer — which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company — said its Contacts for Ovi offering ... Read More »
February 11 2009 - 11:50 am ET | Gary E. Salazar
Some Southwest Airlines customers will now be free to move around the Web. The Dallas-based airline said on Tuesday it will offer in-flight Internet access to customers, but is using different technology than its competitors. ... Read More »
February 9 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Phil Carson
The wireless pundits are chattering about a new offer from Verizon Wireless. The nation’s largest carrier is offering a buy-one-get-one-of-equal-or-lesser-value-for-free promotion on the most popular smartphone brand — Research ... Read More »
February 9 2009 - 11:45 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Microsoft Corp. is the latest company to jump on the cloud-computing craze with a free new service for Windows Mobile users. The software giant unveiled My Phone, a Web-based service that synchs contacts, appointments, messages ... Read More »
February 6 2009 - 12:59 pm ET | Phil Carson
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter’s fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC. ... Read More »
February 6 2009 - 11:50 am ET | Jeffrey Silva
“The time for talk is over,” Obama bellowed. “The time for action is now. Because we know if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse. Crisis could turn into catastrophe.” Was that the new president ... Read More »
February 6 2009 - 1:29 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Google Inc. launched a mobile version of its book search offering, enabling users with devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone and T-Mobile USA Inc.’s G1 to access more than 1.5 million works. The online giant said it formats the ... Read More »
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