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Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to bad working conditions. In a meeting held …

T-Mobile USA is reportedly losing its chief marketing officer as Cole Brodman is set to leave the carrier May 25, according to The Wall Street Journal. Brodman was named to …

Seoul Broadcasting System is reporting that Korea’s National Tax Service is asking Samsung to pay about $350 million (400 billion KRW) in additional taxes after authorities reportedly uncovered tax evasion …

Motorola Mobility (MMI) appears to be another victim of Samsung’s dominance in the smartphone market. The company lost $86 million in the first quarter on revenues of $3.1 billion. Losses …

Shares of Barnes and Noble (BKS) skyrocketed today on news that Microsoft (MSFT) will invest $300 million in a new subsidiary Barnes and Noble is forming to market and distribute …

Add one more bullet to the list of reasons wireless companies will pay billions for patent portfolios. Clever accounting can protect these profits from federal taxes, as pointed out this …

A California judge has ordered Samsung and Apple to send their CEOs and top lawyers to settlement talks next month. Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung will meet May 21 and …

This past week and a half were marked by quarterly results from some of the nation’s largest wireless operators, each showing an interesting challenge that remain in the mobile space.

Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local …

Apple (AAPL) put a shine on the US stock market Wednesday, rising 9% and regaining most of the ground lost earlier this month. Fears that the engine of the mobile …

AT&T Mobility (T) looks to have hit an iPhone wall, with the iconic device still remaining a big seller for the carrier, but a greater share of new customers looking …

Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the world’s largest semiconductor company could one day count Apple and even Qualcomm among its customers. Unlike most chip designers, Intel (INTC) owns its own …

Following a rough fourth quarter in which strong iPhone sales hit its bottom line, Verizon Wireless’ first quarter results showed the fruit of that labor by posting robust growth in …

The world’s largest mobile phone maker confirmed today that sluggish smartphone sales have depressed sales and earnings. Today Finland’s Nokia (NOK) attached some numbers to last week’s announcement that its …

Like its archrival Apple, Google is giving shareholders a carrot. While Apple (AAPL) chose to share some of its cash hoard through a dividend, Google (GOOG) is doubling the number …

Next time your mobile device asks you to update firmware, think twice before procrastinating that update. A new study on mobile device security found that roughly three quarters of the …

About 5 million DirecTV subscribers in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and 16 other U.S. cities are able to again watch local TV stations that went dark early Sunday. Bankrupt Tribune …

Rural carriers are increasingly lining up to offer Apple’s iPhone device as this morning Ntelos Wireless Cellcom Alaska-based General Communication said they would begin offering versions of the iconic smartphone …

Google is gobbling up a growing share of the smartphone operating system market, according to the latest report from ComScore. The market research firm says that for the three months …

To the potential delight of wireless operators, a new report from ComScore shows that a significantly higher percentage of iPhone users in the United States and United Kingdom rely on …

The government is making it easier for members of the U.S. military to use smartphones to do their jobs. While members of the armed forces must curb their use of …

Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people …

Taiwan’s HTC, currently number five in worldwide smartphone shipments, wants to differentiate itself by working with the companies who deliver the content users want most on their smart devices. After …

Calling 2012 a “breakout year for 4G LTE technology,” Strategy Analytics today released a report predicting tenfold growth this year in shipments of LTE phones. The firm’s Neil Shah projects …