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On Thursday, Verizon Communications kicks off the telecommunications earnings season with their release expected before Wall Street opens (Google, another closely followed company, announces after the bell).

Many retailers sold out of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet this weekend, while some customers who pre-ordered the device complained that their tablets hadn’t arrived yet. The only retailer we found that still seems to be shipping the tablet this week …

It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.

Ex-Nokia executives promise to maintain the Meego operating system.

After launching its mobile device management (MDM) platform, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion in the U.S., the Canadian Research in Motion (RIM)  gathered journalists and clients in São Paulo to unveil the solution in Brazil. Mobile Fusion is a single interface that provides a …

Apple is reportedly preparing to launch a tablet with a smaller screen size than the iPad to compete with Google’s Nexus 7. But Apple may need to shrink the price as well as the screen size in order to compete …

The low-price tablet isn’t likely to do much for Google’s bottom line in the near term, but it could be a very effective loss leader for the company if it builds momentum and market share for the Android operating system.

Google TV is coming; Miami Heat parade to be livestreamed

To some serious head scratching, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet device at a refreshingly non-star-studded event in Hollywood, Calif. (Sorry Steve Ballmer.) The device looks to somehow more thinly slice the space between current tablet devices and ultrabook computers, packing …

Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps and one of the most lucrative, as advertisers are quick to see the value in location-based mobile ads. Now Apple is reportedly working to move into Google’s territory with its …

Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle’s Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs are the application program interfaces that help different pieces of …

For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from engineers who are said to be working on the device. The New York Times reported Sunday …

A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle’s Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google …

Google’s recently closed acquisition of Motorola Mobility marked the end of Sanjay Jha’s leadership at the handset company as Google announced Dennis Woodside would take over the helm of Motorola. The move comes as Google gained final approval of its …

In Argentina, 24% of the population owns a smartphone, while in Mexico the penetration rate is 20% and in Brazil it is only 14%. Argentinians still lead when it comes to how often they use their smartphones to access the …

Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility has cleared its last regulatory hurdle just as U.S. trade authorities have ruled that Motorola’s Android phones infringe on a Microsoft patent. The patent in question covers the use of contacts and e-mail …

Motorola Mobility (MMI) appears to be another victim of Samsung’s dominance in the smartphone market. The company lost $86 million in the first quarter on revenues of $3.1 billion. Losses would have been even steeper without the positive contribution of …

Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers (CIOs), according to Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at Ovum. …

The world’s largest mobile phone maker confirmed today that sluggish smartphone sales have depressed sales and earnings. Today Finland’s Nokia (NOK) attached some numbers to last week’s announcement that its devices and services unit would lose money during the first …

Payment doesn’t get much easier than swiping a credit card, but researchers are nonetheless predicting American consumers will switch to paying with smartphones over the course of the next decade. The Pew Research Center surveyed 1,000 respondents and found that …

Like its archrival Apple, Google is giving shareholders a carrot. While Apple (AAPL) chose to share some of its cash hoard through a dividend, Google (GOOG) is doubling the number of shares each investor will own. But the founders of …

This week saw me whisk away to lovely Atlanta for the DAS Forum’s DAS in Action event. Now, this is not one of the bigger events on the yearly wireless telecommunications calendar, though I do give it credit for having …

Apparently taking its cue from Samsung, Toshiba is focusing on thinner, sleeker offerings in the tablet market, but the Japanese company is not skimping on screen size. Today Toshiba said it’s upgrading its Excite line of Android tablets with three …