I spent the day at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel for Digital Hollywood, a four-day conference jampacked with panels and discussions covering everything from digital media content and advertising, to mobile…

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With news that Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) may soon announce a joint venture funded by a cross-section of cable, Internet and chip companies, the next obvious…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) are getting ready to unveil a $12 billion joint venture to bulid out a nationwide WiMax network, according to the WSJ. There’s…

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Nortel has come out saying it will charge “about” a 1 percent royalty rate for its Long Term Evolution patents, although RCR News points out that there’s a fair bit…

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After Cox Communications spent around $304 million in the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction, now several reports are speculating that the company will build out a wireless network through a…

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T-Mobile USA confirmed in a release today what has been rumored for some time—it is launching 3G in New York City today. T-Mobile said the network, based on UMTS and…

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For months, there’s been rumors of a massive deal in the works, spanning cable companies, telcos, Internet giants and chipmakers, to build and jointly sell a nationwide wireless broadband service…

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T-Mobile USA is expected to turn on its 3G network sometime in the next week, according to several rumors, which is not exciting in itself since it’s pretty much the…

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It seems a day doesn’t go by without someone writing something about Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and its influence on the mobile industry. Today, there are three items worth noting:…

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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has announced “new technology that lets developers combine Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Lite and Java ME into a single Java application”, reports PC World.…

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That was fast. Four weeks after launching a trial for its 3G service, China Mobile has determined that the high-speed phone service based on the country’s homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA…

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Mobile phone networks say they will sue Ofcom to stop September’s upcoming auction of airwaves—the so-called 3G expansion band—until the regulator tells them explicitly how their existing 3G spectrum can…

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InvenSense, which makes motion detecting technology for mobile devices (gyroscopes and accelerometers), has raised $19 in its third round of funding. InvenSense sees a market for its products with new…

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Skype has launched a beta version of a mobile thin client, available here. The application is available worldwide and includes chat, group chat, presence (seeing when your contacts are online),…

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Satellite TV company Dish Networks is planning to launch a mobile TV service. The company will trial a DVB-SH service with Alcatel Lucent, reports Dow Jones, in a bid to…

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Indo-U.S. mobile payment company Obopay Inc has secured a $20 million in a fourth round of investment led by India’s Essar Communications Holdings, and included Alliance Bernstein, ONSET Ventures, Redpoint…

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Just when you think the chances of a new U.S. wireless carrier are slim to none, another opportunity seems to crop up. After the recent government spectrum auction ended with…

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China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. It will focus on mobile…

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Buzzd, which is developing a location-based social network that revolves around entertainment listings, plans to announce today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a first round…

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Voice SMS company Bubble Motion, which recently raised $14 million in 3rd round funding, has made a number of executive appointments. -- TS Ramakrishnan has joined as CTO. Ramakrishnan most…

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A lot of people have warned that cellular networks simply couldn’t cope if everyone were active users of mobile content, especially mobile video. One proposed solution was to stream the…

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The latest iPhone rumor has been sparked by an article in Italian paper La Repubblica, which claims that the 3G UMTS iPhone will hit Italy in the summer of this…

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Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in VirtualLogix; no amount disclosed. VirtualLogix makes virtualization systems for communication devices, which Motorola (NYSE: MOT) sees as a solution to the complex…

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Linux will see growth in the mobile handset market, reaching 20 percent penetration by 2013 according to ABI Research. The prediction is based on solving problems with framework fragmentation and…

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