Motorola (NYSE: MOT) shareholders may have felt a big relief when the handset company finally appointed Sanjay Jha to run the company and its struggling handset division, but they better…

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On the heels of Vodafone’s new music store yesterday, O2 is itself doing a new music play of its own, and with SonyBMG the only label on board. It’s added…

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An undisclosed third party has approached UK mobile content platform provider WIN, which could result in an offer being made on the company, WIN said today in a statement. The…

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Deutsche Telekom’s second quarter profit dropped 35 percent to 394 million euros ($608.2 million) from 604 million euros ($934 million) a year ago. The company blamed the strong euro and…

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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will begin offering mobile broadband dongles in the UK in the final calendar quarter. Virgin is late to the UK’s booming broadband dongle space but today’s…

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Not necessarily a secret, but Verisign is divesting off its “non-core” businesses, and has done some of them, but is now hitting road bumps in selling off some of the…

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-- AT&T (NYSE: T) brings recording artists together to record Team USA soundtrack for Olympics: Here’s another one from the official wireless telecom sponsor of Team USA. AT&T brought 16…

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With the Linux operating system gaining speed and eight new handsets being announced this week for a total of 22, critics are starting to wonder about the viability of Google’s…

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The latest mobile games report from Nielsen Mobile shows in startling detail how hard it is to make money in this business. Of the 141 publishers tracked, shockingly few—only 55—made…

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During Sprint’s (NYSE: S) second-quarter conference call today, CEO Dan Hesse said that its WiMax merger with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) was on schedule to close by the end of the…

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On Sprint’s (NYSE: S) conference call this morning, CEO Dan Hesse outlined some of the changes that are underway at the carrier that is decreasing churn and improving the company’s…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel reported Q1 net operating revenues of $9.05 billion, down 11 percent from the $10.2 billion reported in the same quarter a year ago. The struggling carrier…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is launching a second mobile music download store in the UK. Though it put Omnifone’s MusicStation service on its handsets from November, giving consumers unlimited tracks for…

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Three more country launches for the 3G iPhone. India’s Bharti Airtel, Estonia’s EMT, and the Czech Republic’s Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) O2 all announced today that they would begin selling the…

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Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) put on a lunch-time event in West Hollywood today, but hardly anyone showed up – making the intimate affair seem even smaller…

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This year, worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008, a 11 percent increase compared to the 1.15 billion units sold last year, according to a…

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-- Treemo added to T-Mobile deck: Treemo, a Seattle-based mobile social network, announced today that it has been added to the T-Mobile deck, in addition to AT&T (NYSE: T) and…

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-- *Apple* admits MobileMe mistakes: Is there some unwritten law that requires leaders to be the last to admit mistakes (and only under intense pressure)? Steve Jobs, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced three new Rokr handsets today, one of which is based on the LiMo Foundation’s Linux operating system. That follows a LiMo announcement yesterday that unveiled seven…

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Another downbeat story on Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson—which is increasingly being seen as the handset market’s next Motorola (NYSE: MOT). The FT interviewed Dick Komiyama, president of Sony Ericsson (NSDQ:…

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Softbank released its earnings for the first quarter ended 30 June 2008, revealing an 8.1 percent climb in operating profit to 85.1 billion yen ($788 million). Net income fell 22.9…

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Now that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has chosen a CEO for its struggling handset unit, everyone wants to know can Sanjay Jha save the company, or is he “too little, too…

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-- SinglePoint launches mobile ad platform for TV campaigns: Bellevue-based SinglePoint announced today it has launched SingleBrand, a platform that allows mobile ads to be included in TV text campaigns.…

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Following this morning’s announcement that Sanjay Jha will become Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) new co-CEO and CEO of Motorola’s device’s division, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) had an announcement of its own. Len…

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Carriers that caught the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) bug early and secured exclusive distribution rights for the iPhone are clamoring to maintain that position over competitors, but the pool of players…

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