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If the Federal Communications Commission puts any teeth into net neutrality rules, look for the issue to land on the front doorsteps of the United States Supreme Court. The FCC, with three new members and a Democratic bent, is proposing …

4G Unwired 4G Unwired has introduced SkyView Microwave, microwave engineering software that provides the ability to design microwave and broadband networks in 3D directly in Google Earth with accurate and repeatable results. View line of sight worldwide from any angle, …

The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its view of an open Internet with Chief Julius Genachowski explaining the new administration’s plans to keep access to the Internet free and open, regardless of access mechanism. However, the plan includes some wiggle room …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Silicon Valley companies that are debating whether it’s beneficial to work with telecom carriers should recalibrate their expectations in the time it will take to get the service to market, but hold onto the fact that …

SAN FRANCISCO – The spark that led Motorola Inc. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha to reinvigorate his company’s relationship with Google Inc. was similar to two drunks finding each other in a bar, or at least that is what Jha half-jokingly explained …

Editor’s Note: Reporter Matt Kapko is reporting live from GigaOM’s Mobilize show today in San Francisco, where Motorola Inc. introduced its first Android-based smartphone. Watch this space for live updates.T-Mobile USA Inc. will be the exclusive carrier to offer Motorola …

Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well distributed around the globe. There is strong representation from Korea, Japan, Scandinavia, Germany, the U.S., China, …

Palm Inc.’s Pre has been a qualified success for both Palm and its exclusive launch partner Sprint Nextel Corp. (I say “qualified” because as the phone has sold in the hundreds of thousands and been lauded with glowing reviews, it …

On the surface, there isn’t much to suggest that this newly Democratic-led FCC will make any radical regulatory changes in the wireless industry. There is a loud camp cheering for new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to take a more heavy-handed …

After months of speculations, Apple iPhone 3G S is about to make its “official” entry in the Chinese market, following China Unicom’s announcement of a three-year deal with Apple to sell the watershed device in China in 4Q. Through this …

The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing …

Computing industry giant Microsoft Corp. and the world’s largest handset vendor Nokia Corp. announced a deal to deliver an “enterprise-grade solution for mobile productivity” centered on integrating Microsoft’s Office Mobile software to Nokia Symbian-powered smartphones. The agreement calls for the …

Like cartoon coyotes that draw themselves to full height before an exaggerated pounce on prey, handset vendors have offered little this year – but portended much – before an expected lunge at the market.Major vendors, particularly smartphone purveyors, have largely …

When in past years Symbian Ltd. nervously eyed the nascent promise of mobile Linux, Symbian evangelists noted sharply that the rival, open-source platform would require considerable sweat equity or costly out-sourcing to ready it for market.That claim turned out to …

In an ongoing effort to cut costs, Nokia Corp. today invited 1,000 workers worldwide to voluntarily resign. The Finnish handset maker, which had about 128,000 employees at the end of 2008, said that between March 1 and May 31 all …

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. There have been some press releases lately announcing the formation of a …

Google Inc. launched a version of its mobile search application for Windows Mobile devices.Google Mobile App allows users to search without separately opening a browser and offers a search history and suggestions in an effort to reduce keystrokes. The offering …

The GSM Association and five European carriers are hoping to spur mobile marketing with a common system for measuring activity on the wireless Web.Orange, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3 are behind an effort to share “anonymized” user data with …

BARCELONA, Spain – Vodafone and HTC Corp. announced they will sell the world

BARCELONA, Spain – LG Electronics Co. Ltd. said it will make smartphones running both the Windows Mobile and Android operating systems, and will release an application storefront in the second quarter.LG also announced a new touch-based, 3D user interface – …

SEVEN has unveiled its messaging solution for the Android platform that addresses personal and business e-mail on one integrated interface.The solution, which is being showcased at this week’s GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is not only geared to combine …

Handset manufacturer Motorola Inc. is likely to pin its future on smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, while ceding its low-end, high-volume business to others.Amid a fourth-quarter where Motorola Inc. posted a $3.6 billion loss, handset chief Sanjay …

Developers of applications for Google Inc.’s Android platform will finally be able to start charging for their offerings.The Internet giant said programmers can now submit paid applications to Android Market in the United States and United Kingdom. U.S. users will …

European mobile software company Esmertec AG announced plans to acquire rival Purple Labs SA. The deal will create a new business under the name of Myriad Group AG that will include a client list supporting most major phone manufacturers and …

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to bridge the gap between smartphones and feature phones with a new platform targeting mid- and lower-end devices.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer unveiled the mobile version of JavaFX, an offering designed to run atop Java …