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Alternative location technologies such as Wi-Fi and Cell-ID will increasingly join GPS in new location-based service (LBS) applications in cellphones and other handheld devices, ABI Research concluded in a new …

Just one week after reassuring investors, customers and fans that he is fundamentally healthy but undergoing treatment for a hormone imbalance, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced this afternoon that …

Motorola Inc. today said it shipped only 19 million handsets in the fourth quarter of 2008, down from 25.4 million in the third quarter and less than half the 40 …

A top tech member of the Obama transition team today said the broadband component of the increasingly contentious economic stimulus package in Congress is not designed to completely meet the …

The Department of Justice said AT&T Inc. must pay more than $2 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging violations of two court orders in connection with the company’s $2.8 …

The Department of Justice said AT&T Inc. must pay more than $2 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging violations of two court orders in connection with the company’s $2.8 …

United Airlines has become the latest carrier to agree to offer Aircell L.L.C.’s Gogo in-flight Internet services to its passengers.The airline will offer the air-to-ground broadband service in the second …

As the market digests news of Nortel’s financial failings, a new report forecasts the rest of the global telecom equipment vendor market also will have to gird for a rough …

With the machine-to-machine market projected to boom in the coming years, Numerex Corp. is finding a simple way to sell its services to potential customers: The “Numerex DNA” stands for …

Upon its filing for bankruptcy, the future for Nortel Networks Corp. looks cloudy, as analysts now speculate whether the company can stay in business, sell assets or even be bought …

Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers “truly …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers–Morgan Stanley downgraded Qwest Communications to equal weight from overweight after …

Electronic Arts, one of the largest game software and mobile gaming companies in the world, is said to be considering an acquisition of cross town rival Glu Mobile. While this …

iBeer in popularity any time soon, but this is big news for the App Store: Apple has quietly started allowing Web browser applications in.

Regional department store chain Gottschalks Inc. said on Wednesday it filed to reorganize under bankruptcy protection, while apparel chain Goody’s LLC plans to liquidate its remaining 282 stores in a …

Circuit City Stores concluded the first day of an auction and said it was still in talks with bidders regarding a potential sale of the company or certain assets.

This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a “significant number” of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol , a popular show where Americans …

Airport newsstands sell porn. That’s what I think of whenever I hear skeptics talk about an over-hyped market for adult mobile content. It’s tough to imagine more difficult or awkward …

Privacy groups have stepped up their efforts in calling for federal regulation to rein in mobile marketing practices the organizations deem “unfair” and “deceptive” to handset users.The Center for Digital …

In about two weeks, when the world’s leading handset vendors deliver their earnings statements for fourth-quarter 2008, analysts will be expecting not just numbers but some critical commentary to understand …

President-elect Barack Obama plans this week to nominate former telecom policymaker and tech entrepreneur Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to knowledgeable sources.Genachowski, a …

While there’s much talk in official Washington about including stimulus funding and incentives for broadband deployment (and more recently about setting aside a portion of the package’s $775 billion total …

T-Mobile USA Inc. has pulled its TV spots starring Charles Barkley following the basketball great’s drunken-driving arrest on New Year’s Eve. In a statement, a T-Mobile spokesman noted that the …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …