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Posted By Matt Kapko - Sun 12 Oct 2008 07:04 PM PST
We’re still 10 days out before the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone hits the streets and T-Mobile has already sold 1.5 million G1s in pre-orders, The Motley Fool reports.…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:16 PM PST
Bell Canada said today that it will use LTE to build out its 4G network, an unexpected move for a company which has many close ties to the competing WiMax…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 01:25 PM PST
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is backtracking on the 3 cent per-SMS fee it told partners it would begin charging for every message delivered over its network. And yet it still…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:26 AM PST
The Research In Motion takeover guessing game has returned. With the BlackBerry-maker’s shares having dropped from more than $148 to around $60 in four tumultuous months, cash-rich companies could be…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:26 AM PST
Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 04:18 PM PST
Geraldine Wilson has been appointed to the position of CEO at Truphone, a London-based company that enables phones with Wi-Fi to make regular phone calls and send text messages using…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 03:30 PM PST
For the better part of five years Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has allowed companies to send text messages to its subscribers without a fee, but the carrier is telling its…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 10:49 AM PST
Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorola’s RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:47 AM PST
China’s Huawei Technologies is canceling the sale of a major stake in its mobile-devices unit after only two bidders submitted offers, the WSJ reported. The lack of interest is an…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 06:01 AM PST
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel CEO Dan Hesse has confirmed that the beleaguered carrier has received “significant interest” for its Nextel iDen business, but questioned whether any deal in which the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 05:52 AM PST
Shazam announced today that it has struck a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany in which the operator will include its mobile music discovery application on its Vodafone Live! portal.…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:46 PM PST
How badly does Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) want to call itself No. 1 again? And no, we’re not just talking about the quality of the can-you-hear-me-now network. There is some…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:39 PM PST
On one side, you have wireless carriers concerned about controlling spam, and on the other, you have the first amendment and free speech. Now in the middle is the FCC,…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:59 PM PST
Voice-Enabled Search Comes to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) oneSearch and Yahoo Go 3.0: Yahoo has integrated a voice-enabled search engine into its oneSearch application on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 60 devices…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:17 PM PST
Wireless carriers Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are working with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television on a wide-ranging marketing campaign that places the carmarker on all available ad…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 12:41 PM PST
Bruce Stewart, who left Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) Connected Life division last month, where he was responsible for the business development activities and product implementations in the Americas, including the AT&T…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 11:55 AM PST
Families are increasingly using text messaging to stay in touch, while the short snippets of text are also being to flirt and send love notes, according to two surveys released…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 06:30 AM PST
Nokia is signing a multi-year deal worth “tens of millions of dollars” with Nuance Communications in an unusual arrangement, where Nokia will not only license Nuance’s speech-recognition and predictive text…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 08 Oct 2008 06:26 AM PST
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gives a lot more detail on how Google Maps will work on the new Android-based G1 in a post on its Google Mobile blog. Tight integration of…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 08 Oct 2008 02:50 AM PST
RIM’s long-awaited touchscreen iPhone rival, the Blackberry Storm, is launching later this autumn with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) in the US and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in Europe, India, Australia and…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 07 Oct 2008 06:53 PM PST
We have tonight’s presidential debate up on the flat-screen HD set in the living room but I’m trying to watch for a while on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Mobile TV. Not…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 07 Oct 2008 06:08 PM PST
Analysts are revising their forecasts downward for 2009 global handset sales, citing lengthening phone replacement cycles despite the prevailing thought that cell phones are the last thing consumers will give…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 07 Oct 2008 03:46 PM PST
T-Mobile USA has expanded its partnership with the NBA to include the NBA’s minor league and is also joining NBA Europe Live as an official partner in the host cities…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 07 Oct 2008 01:47 PM PST
There’s a ton of attention on mobile browsers right now, as companies try and figure out the best way to render full web sites on small screens. Opera, Google (NSDQ:…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 07 Oct 2008 11:43 AM PST
Kineto Wireless has raised $15.5 million in funding to continue working on its unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology and a new technology for femtocells. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company brought on…
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