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Despite its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, Google turned to LG to manufacture its Nexus 4 smartphone. While LG workers in Asia are undoubtedly scrambling to get the phones …

40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS — those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that …

The world’s largest trade show gets underway next week in Las Vegas, and odds are that wireless technology will permeate everything from cars to cameras on the show floor. In …

For the telecoms industry, 2013 will be a continuation of the “interesting times” that we have seen in 2012. The past year has seen slowing economic growth as a result of the continuing debt crisis in the developed world.

Three out of four smartphones shipped last quarter were running Google’s Android operating system, while just 15% ran Apple’s iOS, and yet Google has a problem: those 15% of smartphone …

Enterprise adoption of Google’s Android operating system is quickly catching up to Apple’s iOS, according to ThreatLabZ, the research arm of cloud security company Zscaler. The company just released its …

Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola’s manufacturing …

As we head into the holiday season, I thought it would be good to look back on five key themes that framed a momentous year. These events are really in no particular order, but we grouped them into themes to keep this week’s column true to its name.

Now that December is here and the Google Nexus 4 still isn’t, it’s becoming clear that the smartphone sitting atop many Christmas lists will not be under the tree. According …

The three leaders in mobile payments all have very different business models. Analysts say there is room for several players in this fast-growing ecosystem.

Broadcom is giving away its NFC software in hopes of creating an industry standard. The company says mobile wallets are just the start for NFC.

They say bad news comes in threes, and if that’s true then wireless carriers have reached their quota of bad news from Google this week. First, the search engine giant …

Google Fiber connected its first set of homes yesterday in the Hanover Heights section of Kansas City. The ultra high-speed network claims that it offers speeds of up to 1 …

After selling out within hours of its UK launch, Google’s no-contract Nexus 4 hits the Google Play store in the US today. The GSM/HSPA+ phone is sold unlocked for $299 …

President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out with an iPad instead of his …

Even before its newest slate of mobile devices hit the market, Google’s Android operating system was winning the smartphone war. IDC says Android had a 75% market share in the …

Google may be giving a new meaning to the phrase “over-the-top” with the launch of its newest line of Nexus devices. The Nexus 4 is an unlocked smartphone powered by …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Much was said in September …

While Microsoft was busy unveiling its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet today, Google’s new Nexus 10 tablet surfaced a little earlier than planned. Today a Korean website …

It was not an easy quarter for Microsoft and Google. The two giant companies both presented their results for the quarter ending Sept. 30. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility pushed …

A milestone for financial markets: at the close of trading in New York on Monday, Google (GOOG) was the world’s second-largest technology company based on its market capitalization, temporarily stealing …

The president of Google Brazil, Fabio Coelho, was arrested and later released on September 26, for not removing two videos from YouTube that allegedly contain slander and defamed a mayoral …

China’s ZTE Corp. says that by the first quarter of 2013 it will be shipping smartphones based on an operating system it developed with Mozilla.

I have just finished a second view (the total event was about two hours long), and quite frankly was both amazed and disappointed in the session. Amazed at what Apple has been able to accomplish in the past two years