Devices

With its new lines of Lumia and Asha Windows-based phones, Nokia is hoping to maintain its hold on low-end consumers while increasing its appeal to high-end users, say analysts and company executives.

Finnish telecom giant Nokia is planning to add its Asha series of Web-enabled cellphones and Lumia 710 to the array of devices manufactured at its Manaus plant in northern Brazil.

With thousands of applications available across multiple platforms, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. The Apple App Store alone has over 500,000 applications, with the challenge now for …

American businesses hired more workers in November than they have in almost a year, payroll firm ADP reported today, and a survey of job opportunities at wireless device manufacturers in the United States shows that a number of technical jobs have been open for as long as six months, suggesting that demand for engineers is outpacing supply.

Shares of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) shot up today after the company announced the introduction of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a unified system for managing BlackBerry, Android and Apple iOS …

Amdocs unveiled its Amdocs Data Experience Solution, which it said was designed to help service providers deploy new data services that could improve the customer user experience and accelerate data services monetization.

Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and …

The sale of mobile devices in India is set to reach 231 million units in 2012, an increase of 8.5% compared with this year’s total of 213 million units, according to a study by Gartner Inc.

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A new report from Juniper Research predicts that while LTE uptake over the next five years will be swift, the technology will have only a limited global reach and account …

As the holiday shopping season gets under way this week, merchants can expect to see more transactions completed using wireless devices. A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 45% of …

The Kindle Fire looks like a loss leader for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), but just barely. Recent analysis suggests that the hardware and labor needed to make the Kindle Fire cost Amazon …

AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) could be Nokia’s new window into the U.S. smartphone market. Reports that AT&T is working on a deal with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) come as Nokia’s new Lumia …

A Samsung Galaxy S II owned by a 25-year-old protester is keeping tens of thousands of viewers around the world updated on Occupy Wall Street today, as media with traditional …

At just past the halfway point of the fourth quarter, and the first quarter of iPhone sales across three of the nation’s top four carriers, retail channel checks conducted by …

T-Mobile USA garnered some attention as Google unveiled its highly anticipated music offering in Los Angeles. As the only nationwide operator not offering Apple’s iPhone and corresponding iTunes service, T-Mobile …

Employees infused with mobile devices spend about 28 minutes per day on technology distractions, according to a new report from iPass. The quarterly “iPass Mobile Workforce Report” noted that the …

One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% …

UPDATED: This story has been updated to clarify Cox’s spectrum holdings as well as its initial reliance on Sprint Nextel for coverage in its launch markets. Cox Communications has finally …

Dell Inc. is keeping more of every dollar it makes. The world’s No. 3 PC maker (behind Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo) earned $1.1 billion in the third quarter on revenue of $15.4 billion.

Rural telecom provider Frontier Communications (FTR) signed a wholesale agreement with AT&T Mobility (T) to offer wireless services to Frontier’s customers. The three-year deal will allow Frontier to provide access …

Sprint Nextel has re-constructed the pricing structure of its dual-band 3G/4G mobile broadband offerings weeks after curtailing unlimited data access to its “4G” service. The new plans combine data access …

Imagine checking your smartphone or PC at work to see how much energy your home heater or air conditioner is using while you’re out. Then imagine resetting your appliances remotely to save energy and money. That’s the goal envisioned by Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) in its partnership with a group of global companies that has formed the Energy@Home Consortium