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Mobile Minute: Researchers are not in agreement on who is dominating the world's largest smartphone market - they just know it isn't Samsung. IDC says that Lenovo is China's top smartphone vendor with 12.5% of the market, while Canalys claims that Xiaomi dominates with a...

Sprint gets ready to launch price cuts next week... Mobile Minute: Sprint's new CEO Marcelo Claure reportedly told his employees yesterday that the company has no choice but to compete on price. Claure said price cuts will be his first priority, followed by network improvements and...

T-Mobile says it will slow data speeds for users who break the rules Mobile Minute: T-Mobile US is the latest carrier to confirm plans to "throttle" some LTE customers. According to an internal memo obtained to TmoNews, the practice will start Sunday and will only impact...

Mobile Minute: Verizon Wireless has reiterated its plan to launch voice-over-LTE late this year. Speaking at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said that VoLTE is coming to Verizon in the fourth quarter. AT&T and T-Mobile US have already launched VoLTE...

Mobile Minute: Microsoft's Nokia is apparently taking a high-low strategy when it comes to mobile phones. The company is NOT exiting the basic mobile phone business, despite last month's announcement that "all Mobile Phones-related services and enablers are planned to move into maintenance mode, effective...

Mobile Minute: Keeping data flowing in even in the most crowded environments is an important goal for Japan's SoftBank Mobile, and to that end the company has partnered with Ericsson. SoftBank Mobile will deploy Ericsson's "mobility-based" policy solution, which directly connects the mobility management entity...

Mobile Minute: In another sign that the smartphone patent wars may be moving towards a ceasefire, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that parts of one of Apple's key patents are invalid. Apple had patented a way of "auto-correcting" words that are typed...

Mobile Minute: Google has bought two more mobile startups for undisclosed amounts. Directr, which helps businesses create video ads, will become part of Google's YouTube operations. The company's software is designed to enable businesses to create videos using smartphones. Google's other purchase is Palo Alto, Calif.-based...

Mobile Minute: Sprint is not the only company making executive changes this week as Microsoft said yesterday that is has hired Qualcomm's Peggy Johnson to lead business development. At Qualcomm, Johnson served as EVP of Qualcomm Technologies and president of global market development. She has...

The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Cost cuts and restructuring are paying off for Europe's major wireless infrastructure vendors, all of whom saw significant margin improvement in the second quarter. Alcatel-Lucent, which has cut costs as part of its Project Shift initiative, said that...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. iPhone production expected to ramp up Apple is betting big on China Mobile's network investment, reportedly ramping up iPhone production in anticipation of strong Chinese demand. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple wants between 70 million...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. "Pay-as-you-go" has worked well for T-Mobile US when it comes to its service offerings for customers, and the carrier says it's choosing that same strategy when it comes to mobile backhaul. While some carriers are using...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T and América Móvil may not be parting ways after all. The U.S. carrier is still planning to sell its 8.2% stake in América Móvil to the company's majority owner Carlos Slim, but now AT&T may...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Federal Trade Commission says that Amazon.com has been billing account holders for in-app purchases that they never authorized. The vast majority of the charges occur when a child makes an in-app purchase while playing a...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that allowed users to buy voice, text, and data instead of minutes and megabytes. Like Zact, Sprint's new...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Samsung's slide is starting to look like a trend. For the third straight quarter, the Korean giant is predicting lower profits due to weakening demand for its smartphones. The company still dominates the global smartphone market...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Transportation Safety Board says it will not allow uncharged cell phones or other uncharged portable electronics to board U.S.-bound planes from some airports. The agency is concerned that the devices could be used to hide...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now it looks like the software giant is moving beyond the Surface tablets and the handset business...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The app arms race may be set for a slowdown, with new data from Nielsen suggesting that Americans are approaching the upper limits of their capacity to download new apps. The average number of apps used...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T has a price and a buyer for its 8.2% equity stake in América Móvil. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, majority owner of América Móvil, will buy AT&T's stake for $5.6 billion. The deal makes good on...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their jobs, and now those companies have offered a settlement. The class action lawsuit was brought against...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. It's been 15 years since Google launched the search algorithm that would turn its company name into a verb. Now, Google wants to permeate our mobile lives the same way it dominates the online environment. Yesterday...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Dish Network is giving a new meaning to the term "cord cutter" with its latest pay TV innovation: a set-top box that connects to the Dish Hopper via superfast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Dish is the first pay...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Watch for a smart Apple wristband as soon as this fall -- that's according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the Apple smartwatch will debut in multiple screen sizes. Health and fitness monitoring will...