Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) confirmed this morning that it is having preliminary discussions with SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) to explore possible strategic opportunities. We were first last week to…

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Embarq said today it will end its wireless reseller agreement with Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel next year, becoming the second phone company following Qwest, to terminate its alliance in recent…

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Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each…

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Rumors about Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and its iPhone plans are coming and fast and furious today. Here’s a quick update on everything you may or may not want to know:…

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AT&T (NYSE: T) sounded defensive about the speed of its network during a presentation to Wall Street analysts this morning. Currently, AT&T offers DSL-like speeds where it has HSDPA deployed,…

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After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do…

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South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…

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Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) confirmed today that it will support the Linux mobile-phone operating system, and join the LiMo Foundation as a core member, signaling its commitment to the platform.…

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Spanish telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported a first quarter 22 percent rise in profits, boosted by its Latin American mobile phone units. Net income rose to 1.54 billion euros…

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Car navigation device maker TomTom’s proposed 2.9 billion euro ($4.5 billion) purchase of digital- mapping firm Tele Atlas has received the all clear from the EU. Bloomberg reports that the…

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Nordic mobile marketing firm More Mobile Relations has acquired the 6-year old Swedish mobile marketing company 12snap-Lokomobil for an undisclosed sum. The company, founded by Norwegian operator Telenor, has been…

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One of the big questions for Sprint (NYSE: S) right now is what it will do with its Nextel network—spin it off, turn it off, or invest in it to…

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Rafat reported last week that Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) is in merger talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, and this week the rumors have the MVNO…

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Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is close to announcing the support for Linux-based mobile phones to push forward the company’s “Any Apps, Any Device” open-access agenda, Unstrung reports. The Linux platform…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced plans to add a mapping service (Nokia Maps 2.0) to its Ovi portal at the end of May, unsurprisingly based on technology from its incipient…

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-- CelluMall is the latest effort by Cellufun to generate revenue. Cellufun runs an ad-supported mobile games community, and the idea behind CelluMall is that players will be able to…

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today announced details for its upcoming five-day Worldwide Developers Conference starting June 9. The show, to be held at San Francisco’s Moscone center, will kick off with…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said today that it has picked the top 50 applications from its Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1, which is being used to spur development for…

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Mobile games firm Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) announced first quarter revenue of $20.6 million, up from $15.7 million compared to the same period a year ago. They also reported a…

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Chinese mobile advertising firm CASEE has received $6 million from London mobile marketing company Velti, which takes a 33 percent stake in the start up that China-focused news site Pacific…

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The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel alleging it is charging customers for mobile content they didn’t authorize buying, and deliberately befitting from the practice…

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-- Australia-Asia Availability: SingTel will bring the iPhone to its 2.3 million subscribers in Singapore; Bharti Airtel will offer it to its 64 million customers in India; Globe Telecom will…

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A Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel affiliate operating in Schaumburg, Ill. said it has filed a lawsuit against its parent company to block the joint venture it was forming with Clearwire…

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If the popularity contest is going to be fought between the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and RIM’s (NSDQ: RIMM) BlackBerry devices, then Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wants a piece of the…

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