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WASHINGTON — Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. — three of the biggest winners in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s recently completed 700-MHz auction — have announced plans for the spectrum they’ve won, with two of the companies focused on expanding their wireless voice and data networks.
Verizon and AT&T will both use the […]

When Everex first announced its $399 CloudBook in during CES 2008, we thought it had a winner on its hands. The device rocked a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 30GB HDD, 7″ 800×480 display, and a 4-cell battery.
Everex is looking to tackle those problems head-on with the new CloudBook Max. The CloudBook Max, like the […]

Sun Microsystems is known for many things, but it is probably best known for Java. The promise of Java is that programmers can write an application once and run it on any machine, or device, that has a Java Virtual Machine (a virtual environment that runs on a computer which includes the Java runtime, so […]

Apple Inc.’s iPhone is selling like hotcakes, or more aptly perhaps like Nintendo Wiis, and racked up impressive sales of a million units a mere 74 days after its release on June 29th of this year. The iPhone, TIME magazine’s Invention of the Year, has helped Apple see its fastest quarterly growth in history […]

While North American iPhone users are struggling against a sea of firmware updates to use their devices on non-AT&T networks, and making enough headway to break the 1.1.2 firmware before its official release, those in Germany are getting a chance to buy a factory-unlocked phone — for the not-so-low cost of €999, or approximately 1,500 […]

Not even two weeks after the introduction of their Android operating system, and offers of $10 million USD in bounties for software, it seems that the Californian colossus is preparing a bid of $4.6 billion USD or more for a piece of the soon-to-be-free 700MHz wireless spectrum — and what’s more, they’re apparently planning on […]

The Google Phone has arrived, sort of, but not in the long-rumored embodiment that many had expected. Google announced this morning that it has developed a new mobile OS called “Android”—a result of its acquisition of a mobile software company of the same name in 2005—that will allow the company to get Google’s mobile apps […]

The phone company said yesterday that its third-quarter net income rose 41 percent as the cellphone helped bring in new customers. AT&T’s wireless unit added two million subscribers in the third quarter, an increase of 47 percent, for a total of 65.7 million subscriptions. The wireless growth offset a 4.7 percent loss of the San […]

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — In an apparent about-face, Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company’s Web site Wednesday. Apple infuriated developers and some iPhone users when it issued a software update September 27 that disabled unofficial programs installed […]

LONDON — The U.K.’s largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, Telefonica SA’s O2 unit, has been awarded exclusive rights to sell the iPhone, which combines a mobile phone, alongside an iPod music and video player and Internet browsing. It will begin selling on Nov. 9 for £269 ($536). The multiyear deal, announced Tuesday by […]