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Google’s recently closed acquisition of Motorola Mobility marked the end of Sanjay Jha’s leadership at the handset company as Google announced Dennis Woodside would take over the helm of Motorola. …

In Argentina, 24% of the population owns a smartphone, while in Mexico the penetration rate is 20% and in Brazil it is only 14%. Argentinians still lead when it comes …

Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility has cleared its last regulatory hurdle just as U.S. trade authorities have ruled that Motorola’s Android phones infringe on a Microsoft patent. The …

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 …

Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers …

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 …

Payment doesn’t get much easier than swiping a credit card, but researchers are nonetheless predicting American consumers will switch to paying with smartphones over the course of the next decade. …

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 …

This week saw me whisk away to lovely Atlanta for the DAS Forum’s DAS in Action event. Now, this is not one of the bigger events on the yearly wireless telecommunications calendar, though I do give it credit for having one of the better names.

Apparently taking its cue from Samsung, Toshiba is focusing on thinner, sleeker offerings in the tablet market, but the Japanese company is not skimping on screen size. Today Toshiba said …

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 …

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 …

This week we were reminded again of the power of words. And in this case when I say we, I mean Sprint Nextel’s stock price. And when I say “words” I mean “underperform.”

Stripped of their ability to track crime suspects using GPS devices without a warrant, federal agents may instead rely more heavily on mobile phones as keys to tracking suspects. Earlier …

YouTube owner Google launched a local version of the video site in Chile, the fifth on the list of Latin American countries that now have a local YouTube address and No. …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Apple’s decision to invest in the new iPad’s graphics capability is a smart decision. “Images will be fantastic,” says semiconductor analyst Linley …

Almost one in three Americans now uses a smartphone, and 3 out of 4 have at least one mobile device. According to ComScore’s quarterly report on the mobile phone industry, …

With the iPad 3 already generating a huge media buzz, this is would not be a good time for Apple to see customers reconsider their purchase plans due to concerns …

Google (GOOG) has approval from the United States Department of Justice and from the European Union to proceed with its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI). The Justice Department …

Almost half of all Americans now own a smartphone, and the number of smartphone owners is rising every day. But carriers are struggling with the cost of subsidizing smartphone sales …

A Google blog says that the creator of the Android operating system is developing sunglasses that can function as a smartphone. The “Google goggles” have a display that can be …

LAS VEGAS – Days after announcing plans for initial market launches, Sprint Nextel added more color to its LTE plans with news on devices. The carrier said its LTE network …

LAS VEGAS – One year after unveiling its first smartphones compatible with its nascent LTE network, Verizon Wireless (VZ) used the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show to show …

With technology having become ubiquitous, consumerized, cheaper and more equally available to all, the second half of the Information Age will be focused on the exploitation of technology and the …

Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected, as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, notes the 2011 BroadSoft Mobile Enterprise of the Future survey. This trend could be an opportunity for mobile network operators, because enterprises believe their MNO is better positioned to deliver services such as video calling and conferencing, Web conferencing, voice mail, presence management and instant messaging than fixed-line providers like Microsoft, Google or IBM.