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Looking to turn around its struggling handset division, Motorola Inc. unveiled three new handsets it plans to show off at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The company, which …

Swedish smartphone user interface vendor UIQ has filed for bankruptcy, according to media reports.Indeed, the move was foreshadowed in June when UIQ announced it would layoff 200 of its 375 …

Just in time to miss the annual retail orgy, the aptly named Phenom Communications Inc. has launched the latest cellphone-and-everything-else-on-your-wristwatch gadget. “The Most Innovative Gadget in the World” (Phenom’s words) …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless each appear to be easing their stance on sharing subscribers’ location information with partners, efforts that put weight behind their bluster about openness.Sprint Nextel …

Palm Inc. joined the application-store bandwagon, launching a downloadable storefront with 5,000-plus offerings for more than two dozen Palm devices.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based outfit opened the Software Store (available at http://software.palm.com/appstore), …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The …

Google Inc. continues to dominate the online-search space, but who will win in mobile – and how they’ll get there – is anybody’s guess.The already crowded field of mobile-search providers …

The mobile information superhighway is in need of some serious maintenance. That’s the take-away from a new Yankee Group evaluation of 32 consumer-facing mobile Web sites. The market research firm …

Heeding demands from its enterprise customers, Verizon Wireless recently began offering a solution that provides companies greater control and increased security for wireless devices on the network.The carrier added Static …

The growing consumer embrace of smartphones – and the willingness to pay for heavily subsidized gadgets and data plans that promise fun and functionality – faces uncharted territory this holiday …

More than a year after taking the helm at Yahoo Inc., Jerry Yang is out as the company’s board of directors has initiated a search for a new CEO.Yang has …

Looking to catch a wave, LG Electronics Co. delivered its first smartphone for the United States market to AT&T Mobility today. The “Incite” is a touchscreen, 3G device running Microsoft …

Attention to the “user experience” has become a fervid mantra since the iPhone reached market last year and in one recent case, a specialty firm has been involved in assisting …

Microsoft Corp. is close to launching a new Windows Mobile browser that the company’s development team touts as an experience that will resemble surfing the Internet on a desktop, according …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced its high-end, touchscreen smartphone, the Xperia X1, will be available to U.S. shoppers in time for the holiday season – but the device will carry …

There continues to be a fair amount of optimism among mobile game makers. Whether the rose-colored lenses are warranted, though, is more uncertain than ever.Gameloft last week offered a surprisingly …

TO OBSERVERS, MOTOROLA INC.’S GLASS is either half-full or half-empty. “Ringing Start for Motorola Chief,” declared Barron’s last week after the ailing American vendor reported steep losses.Barron’s had chosen to …

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 …

Craig Harper went from trying to keep track of his daughter to launching his own company that aims to help businesses keep track of their mobile workforce and be more …

The Federal Communications Commission today conditionally approved the Verizon Wireless-Alltel Communications L.L.C. and the Sprint Nextel-Clearwire Corp. mergers, while also voting to allow unlicensed devices to operate in vacant broadcast …

You know that dusty smell you experience when you open a book that hasn’t been picked up in decades? That’s the feeling I get lately when I think of Microsoft’s …

LG Electronics Co. said today it will work more closely with Microsoft Corp. on converged devices, likely smartphones the Korean vendor is pursuing. The two parties announced the signing of …

This year’s presidential election is significant in more ways than one: It marks the year that text messaging and the mobile Web became political battlegrounds, and serves as a benchmark …

The presidential contest that will – almost certainly – be decided this week may be remembered as the point where politics collided with mobile. And I’m not talking just about …

The nation’s top wireless and high-tech companies appear poised to be big winners Nov. 4, with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin seemingly on track to secure votes that will …