Mobile Minute

Mobile Minute: Verizon Wireless has reiterated its plan to launch voice-over-LTE late this year. Speaking at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said that VoLTE …

Mobile Minute: Microsoft’s Nokia is apparently taking a high-low strategy when it comes to mobile phones. The company is NOT exiting the basic mobile phone business, despite last month’s announcement …

Mobile Minute: Keeping data flowing in even in the most crowded environments is an important goal for Japan’s SoftBank Mobile, and to that end the company has partnered with Ericsson. …

Mobile Minute: In another sign that the smartphone patent wars may be moving towards a ceasefire, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that parts of one of Apple’s …

Mobile Minute: Google has bought two more mobile startups for undisclosed amounts. Directr, which helps businesses create video ads, will become part of Google’s YouTube operations. The company’s software is …

Mobile Minute: Sprint is not the only company making executive changes this week as Microsoft said yesterday that is has hired Qualcomm’s Peggy Johnson to lead business development. At Qualcomm, …

The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Cost cuts and restructuring are paying off for Europe’s major wireless infrastructure vendors, all of whom saw significant margin improvement in the …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. iPhone production expected to ramp up Apple is betting big on China Mobile’s network investment, reportedly ramping up iPhone production …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. “Pay-as-you-go” has worked well for T-Mobile US when it comes to its service offerings for customers, and the carrier says …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T and América Móvil may not be parting ways after all. The U.S. carrier is still planning to sell its …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Federal Trade Commission says that Amazon.com has been billing account holders for in-app purchases that they never authorized. The …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Samsung’s slide is starting to look like a trend. For the third straight quarter, the Korean giant is predicting lower …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Transportation Safety Board says it will not allow uncharged cell phones or other uncharged portable electronics to board U.S.-bound …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The app arms race may be set for a slowdown, with new data from Nielsen suggesting that Americans are approaching …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T has a price and a buyer for its 8.2% equity stake in América Móvil. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, majority …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. It’s been 15 years since Google launched the search algorithm that would turn its company name into a verb. Now, …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Dish Network is giving a new meaning to the term “cord cutter” with its latest pay TV innovation: a set-top …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Watch for a smart Apple wristband as soon as this fall — that’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Mobile networks are set for another increase in video traffic. Today Twitter said it is buying SnappyTV, a startup that …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. BlackBerry says that the upcoming version of its mobile operating system will include direct access to the roughly 200,000 Android …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon may be trying to create an iPhone-like buzz around its new smartphone by giving the device exclusively to AT&T. …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon is expected to bring a new dimension to the smartphone market this week with an Amazon-branded phone that will …