The winners of the recent government spectrum auction that raised $19.6 billion are finally being revealed. Based on early reports, the results are as expected: Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) had…

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-- Hackers plot bypass: An independent group of software developers calling themselves the iPhone Dev Team claim to be close to breaking Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) brand-new software developer program. The…

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Are the new services being developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others threatening the carrier’s…

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Trying to take a slice of the location-based services market, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched a new service today called Fire Eagle, which “is meant to be a location broker that…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) all made mobile announcements today, releasing technology that helps to make it easier for consumers to access content on their…

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Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

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Chalk up this round to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Norwegian browser maker Opera has dumped Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in favor of Google, making it the default search engine on the company’s…

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A new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search application for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones makes getting to the search box and receiving results much faster, Google said Thursday on its blog. The…

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When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone last summer, it did not support Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Player, which meant Internet videos and other Web sites developed in Flash would…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

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In many ways, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) keynote this morning was an hour-long advertisement, explaining to developers why they should pick the Ovi platform the next time they build a game.…

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The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year’s MWC, a cross-section of execs from operators, to handset makers, to content players were singing its praises—backing them up…

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The government spectrum auction is slowing to a trickle and nearing to a close. In 16 days, and 71 completed rounds, a group of anonymous companies have pledged almost $20…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is to become T-Mobile’s exclusive web search provider across much of Europe from March, the pair announced in Barcelona. T-Mobile had already started using Yahoo’s oneSearch in…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced Tuesday that they had struck a deal to integrate the search engine with the handset giant’s search application Nokia Search. Initially, Google…

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The first mobile phones loaded with Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android software platform made their debut in Barcelona today, showing that the Open Handset Alliance is making progress even though reports…

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As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) waits for a response from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to its $44.6 billion buyout offer, the analysis on the two companies continues to flow freely. For a…

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Yesterday, analysts speculated that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was a big participant in the current spectrum auction, but that it was likely Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) that pulled ahead in the…

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Islamic investment firm Investment Dar said Tuesday that it may be interested in investing up to $800 million in a public U.S. telecom operator, and analysts are guessing the two…

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After getting the open-access provisions it was looking for in the FCC airwaves auction, observers are speculating that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has bowed out of the bidding. Forbes suggests that…

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Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar proposed bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to grab headlines, and more writers and analysts have pondered the implications for the mobile market. The deal wasn’t,…

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The highly sought after “C block” of airwaves has received a new high bid of $4.74 billion. Bidding on the C block in the FCC auction had appeared to have…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said last week that its developer kit for Android will be delayed for several weeks while it makes significant changes. As part of that, it will also…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) execs sidestepped questions about the 700 MHz spectrum auction underway and even WiMax during today’s Q407 earnings call. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt: “We’ve concluded we cannot…

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The wireless spectrum auction is reaching an interesting stage: After 18 rounds of bidding that began one week ago, bids for the “C block” of nationwide spectrum reached $4.7 billion,…

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