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Nokia now has three of the top four largest recording companies.

The Wi-Fi Alliance wants to make voice a part of Wi-Fi networks, and has introduced a program to certify products, it announced on Monday.

The rising popularity of smartphones such as the BlackBerry and the iPhonewill make them targets for viruses and spam, security experts believe.

Anyone who can build a Web page can build a mobile application using a J2ME development tool called Breeze, according to the tool’s maker, Cascada Mobile. Breeze lets users create applications and published them for free using online tools.

A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies.

Blyk is a UK MVNO which offers no-cost and low-cost mobile phone service with revenue generated from advertising to the customer via the mobile phone. The company has been highly successful , gaining over 100,000 customers in less than a …

Wireless Oakland, a municipal wireless network covering Oakland County, MIch., is offline due to lack of funds, Deputy Oakland County Executive and CIO Phil Bertolini said today. The project’s private-sector partners have been unable to secure the necessary funding to …

“Is this interesting to Google?” That’s what Andy Rubin was asking Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a conference room just off the main lobby at Google’s headquarters. A simple yes and …

Back in 2002, there was suddenly a lot of buzz about how MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) were going to be the next big thing.

Electromagnetic glitches occurred in almost 30 percent of the tests when microchip devices similar to those in many types of wireless medical equipment were placed within about one foot of the lifesaving machines.

Wait. Scroll. Scroll. Tap-tap. Wait. Wait. For many years, that was the typical experience of someone surfing the Web using a mobile phone or PDA, at least in the U.S. Although some content providers offered stripped-down versions of their sites …

The large Surface tabletop computer in the office Gates soon will relinquish to Ballmer offers one clue about where he thinks computing is going: The interactive, 30-inch touch-responsive tables can be used to order meals or display maps.

We know that the iPhone 3G will have “assisted GPS.” But what does that mean? Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of this term, and of course it's beneath Apple to provide meaningful details .

Apple Inc. is distributing to its retail and sales personnel an internal iPhone 3G Frequently Asked Questions document which implies that first-day sales and activation procedures are still being ironed out. It does, however, provide some information on bulk iPhone …

SEOUL (Reuters) – Virgin Mobile USA (VM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is set to acquire a US mobile arm of South Korea’s SK Telecom Co (017670.

WASHINGTON – Federal regulators agree that distracted drivers are dangerous. But the government won’t require phones built into cars and trucks to shut down automatically when the vehicles are moving. Longtime safety advocate Clarence Ditlow proposed such a rule last …

Automated passenger profiling is rubbish, the Home Office has conceded in an amusing – and we presume inadvertent – blurt.

All evidence points to the fact that smartphone viruses will be a threat to your network even though they aren’t at this moment.

FMC has supporters, but cost and complexities are a concern.Whether fixed-mobile convergence is for you in the near-term depends in part on how you define it, but for most, there’s no rush.

The mobile Web presence is to 2008 what the Web presence was to 1998: an absolutely essential component of the marketing mix.

As the demand for customer-friendly, real-time information increases, more cities, counties and states are going high tech at the bus stop.

Google Inc. is learning that changing the cellphone industry isn’t easy.

Banks should look beyond their Internet banking customers for new mobile banking customers, Javelin says.

Don’t underestimate 3G data services, industry experts say. These offerings will tie mobile laptops and voice/data smartphones into corporate networks with something approximating a useable desktop computing experience.

The Summer Olympics are nearly here. Beginning August 8th, the world will be watching as athletes compete for the gold in Beijing. Of course, many people will be watching the coverage on TV or the web, but others will keeping …