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T-Mobile USA Inc. (DT) closed a chapter on its Sidekick franchise last Friday as the industry’s No. 4 carrier stopped selling the iconic device, though it said it will continue to support product services and support.The carrier hinted that while …

Less than 2 months after being launched at Verizon Wireless and three months after its unveiling at a San Francisco bar at 10 in the morning, Microsoft Corp. has shut down its Kin initiative.Published reports indicated that the computer software …

SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday’s keynote speech at the company’s first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an …

Stop me if you have heard this one before: Apple Inc. is set to break free of its AT&T Mobility bonds and begin offering the iPhone through Verizon Wireless. Sounds familiar? Sure it does as varying forms of that prediction …

LOS ANGELES — As more services collide on mobile networks, the business models that support the entire wireless ecosystem are being strained like never before.Services and business models are all colliding while the development of a new ecosystem from the …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. updated the distribution plans for its Galaxy S smartphone platform with Verizon Wireless (VZ), T-Mobile USA Inc. (DT), Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) all announcing today plans to launch a version of …

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and partner Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)continued their full-court WiMAX press this morning announcing a trio of new markets where service is available as well as a new device set to launch later this year.Both companies said they …

LOS ANGELES — “However you think about it, you’re not thinking big enough or going fast enough,” Kelly King, AT&T Mobility’s SVP of consumer and mobility, said at the LA Broadband Summit.Perhaps that best sums up how every player in …

Spectrum Bridge Inc. said it is working with a California utility to use white-spaces technology to deploy a smart-grid network in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and offer wireless broadband service to area residents.Spectrum Bridge is working with the Plumas-Sierra Rural …

Catching up with the firm’s VP of product management and connected life, Irv Henderson, at CommunicAsia in Singapore last week, RCR learned that while Yahoo did find Android an important platform, the firm was interested in working with any OS …

Mere hours before Apple Inc. is set to officially unleash its latest iPhone 4 on the public, Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. were set to offer up their latest Droid variation powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system. The nation’s …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this …

Nokia Corp. continues to buckle under the increasing might and will of its competitors in the smartphone space. In a note to investors , the company downgraded the financial outlook for its devices and services division for the second (current) …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.I have spent a week with my new Sprint Evo. Admittedly, outside of …