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The Department of Justice approved Verizon Wireless’ $28 billion purchase of Alltel Communications L.L.C., subject to required divestitures of wireless assets in 100 markets encompassing 22 states.“The divestitures required are …

AT&T Mobility, computer-maker Lenovo and infrastructure vendor L.M. Ericsson announced a teaming to knock off $150 from the price of 3G-capable laptops, with an eye toward enticing customers to mobile …

Alcatel-Lucent posted another loss in the third quarter as new leadership vowed to return the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker to profitability.The French-U.S. company reported a net loss of $51 …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is targeting parents of trick-or-treaters by halving the price of its GPS-based child-locating service.Sprint Family Locator, which allows parents to view the location of their children from …

Motorola Inc. lost $397 million on $7.5 billion in revenue across all its businesses in the third quarter and said today it would delay its plan to spinoff its handset …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

The following is market share information for the top five largest mobile-phone manufacturers for the third quarter of 2008. The figures were compiled by research firm IDC. Nokia Corp. retained …

All John Famiglietti needs is access to a computer to manage a fleet of 44 rigs that are equipped to clean up hazardous materials in the country’s largest city. Famiglietti, …

The Communications Workers of America has sued AT&T Mobility and other subsidiaries of the telecom giant over what it calls corporate shell games to avoid providing benefits to employees. The …

Job seekers struggling to land gigs during the economic downturn are going to wish they had iPhone programming skills.

Some of the new applications loaded to the Android Market since it opened on Monday don’t work very well, crash the phone, aren’t particularly elegant and in one case, uses …

There are several reasons why consumers may not take to slotMusic albums. For instance, you can’t plug the cards into the most popular digital music players around, Apple’s iPods. Nor …

The fund is leading an $8 million round for MobiMate, an company that makes an app called WorldMate. It helps frequent travelers by keeping track of delayed flights, guiding them …

The definition of insanity – at least in popular culture – is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. By this definition, many business people and IT …

Today’s consumers expect more from their marketing messaging. The CEO of Aegis Media North America gives her advice on how to deliver the goods, both strategically and creatively.

Brand-switching appears to have tripped up Qwest Communications International Inc. – the carrier lost 45,000 of its 800,000 wireless customers in the third quarter and blamed the deficit on its …

AT&T Mobility subscribers are seeking $88 million in damages in a privacy lawsuit against the No. 1 wireless provider.The lawsuit, filed by 44 wireless subscribers in Oklahoma federal court, alleges …

Billion-dollar lawsuits still raise some eyebrows, but not at Qualcomm Inc. this week. Gabriel Technologies Corp. said Monday it had filed suit against the San Diego-based chip and IP-licensing company …

Billion-dollar lawsuits still raise some eyebrows, but not at Qualcomm Inc. this week. Gabriel Technologies Corp. said Monday it had filed suit against the San Diego-based chip and IP-licensing company …

EA Mobile said it will expand its support for Nokia Corp.’s N-Gage platform with nearly a dozen new, high-profile titles over the next year.EA Sports FIFA 09, Spore Origins and …

Bang & Olufsen, the Danish maker of high-end audio and video products, is getting out of mobile phones to focus on its core competencies, the company said last week. B …

So far, despite massive lobbying over scheduled Nov. 4 votes on white spaces, wireless mergers, the universal service fund and intercarrier-compensation reforms, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has yet …

The mobile phone industry’s push for an antenna-siting shot clock is being booed by cities and citizens, continuing a fierce debate dating back to the telecom act of 1996 and …

Despite its youth, the mobile gaming industry has already reached the billion dollar benchmark, according to a report from In-Stat.The firm said it believes significant momentum for the gaming industry …