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U.S. Cellular Corp.’s (USM) LTE plans continue to take shape as the regional operator said it plans to roll out its first LTE equipped device in November, presumably following the launch of its initial LTE services.The carrier announced last month …

Visa Inc. (V) has made another pair of moves in its quest to develop a mobile network for financial transactions and maintain its leader position in the nascent medium. The company announced today that it has acquired Fundamo Ltd., an …

Taiwanese phone maker HTC has more than doubled its profits since last year, thanks mainly to the firm’s focus on Android says the company’s annual report. HTC reported a $40 billion profit since May 2010 and said monthly sales have …

Free Press has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that Verizon Wireless is abusing conditions of its 700 MHz spectrum by not allowing LTE devices to be used as wireless routers. Verizon is not amused, noting that …

For the first time since 2008, Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to introduce a new iPhone today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs and his team of executives pulled few, if any, surprises on stage, …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Visiting Taiwan during Computex 2011, Google’s senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai said the firm would not be porting its Chrome OS to tablets or handsets, nor would it be scaling Android up to Chromebooks. Since Google’s …

Ad agency AirPush has announced a new approach to in-app advertising – whereby ads are pushed directly to users’ notification pane. The idea is that having installed an AirPush enabled app, ads targeted to the user will appear in the …

SAN DIEGO — Fourth-generation networks and the smartphones and devices that take advantage of that new technology are going to “supercharge” consumers’ experience with mobility, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp., said in his keynote at Uplinq.Smartphones will increasingly become …

Taipei, Taiwan – The upcoming PadPhone from Asus will sport Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich, RCR discovered at Computex this week. Asustek’s tablet/phone combo – which allows consumers to use one SIM for two devices by allowing the smartphone to …

DUBLIN – Cloud computing is the buzz word associated with the trifecta of mobile technology: the ability to access information and files from a home computer, a mobile device and a work computer or tablet. One of the most obvious …

TAIPEI, Taiwan — It was another significant week in the mobile device world this week as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) gave the world it’s long awaited preview of Windows 8 at the All Things “D” conference in California and the Computex …

Today’s telecom operators are facing perhaps the most competitive threats to their business that they ever have. Device manufacturers, operating system companies, over-the-top service providers and large digital content giants are each developing their own relationships with individual end users …

Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman after stepping down as CEO earlier this year, opened up during his keynote at the D9 Conference last evening about some mistakes, the platform wars (it involves a “gang of four”) and …

Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced today that it will reveal a sneak peek of the next generation of mobile device and Mac operating systems, including the buzz concerning the iCloud service.In a press release, Apple said that CEO Steve Jobs, who …

Hindustan Times | May 26, 2011 Global Internet search engine Google on Thursday announced plans to offer street view of Indian cities on its maps platform. “We are launching the street view project from Bangalore as it is the IT …

Following a 300% jump in traffic from tablets in the last six months, Google Inc.’s (GOOG) AdMob has launched a series of new ad formats tailor made for larger mobile devices. The HTML5-based ad formats are built for high-definition screens …