Microsoft has unveiled the initial lineup of smartphones that will use its new mobile OS. Analysts seem impressed, but they warn that the software giant has a huge task ahead to lure consumers away from Apple iPhones and Google Android-powered handsets.
After months of rumors, Verizon Wireless could be getting a version of the Apple iPhone 4 by early next year, according to The New York Times.
When Apple first entered China with its wildly popular iPhone, the response was warm but not overly so. The iPhone 4, however, is off to a gangbuster start. If Apple can keep tapping China's potential, fervent shareholders could become even more bullish.
Need more cell-phone coverage? AT&T on Tuesday plans to start selling its first satellite phone, the TerreStar Genus smartphone, which can use the regular network or can tap into a satellite to deliver service when users are in the wilderness or even hundreds of miles offshore.
Mobile startup ChaCha, which provides answers via text message, is threatening to bail on T-Mobile over a proposed fee increase on texts. The move has aggregators, publishers and at least one consumer group raising the alarm. T-Mobile calls it business as usual.
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to open up a new chunk of wireless spectrum that could soon be used to blanket small towns with wireless signals. The FCC is expected to vote on Sept. 23 to open up the unlicensed spectrum between TV channels for public use.
Wal-Mart Stores is partnering with T-Mobile to introduce Wal-Mart Family Mobile, the first cell-phone plan to use the retail giant's own branding.
Federal regulators are shooting down a proposal by a startup called M2Z Networks to build a free, nationwide wireless broadband network using a spare slice of airwaves.
Intel is nearing a bid to buy Infineon Technologies' wireless unit, a move that would give it an instant presence in the smartphone market. The world's top chipmaker will reportedly offer $1.91 billion for the unit, which supplies chips for both Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S.
Sam's Club, the discount warehouse owned by Wal-Mart, becomes the latest big retail chain to offer free wireless Internet at all of its U.S. stores.
AT&T and Verizon Wireless are planning a big move into wireless electronic payments, a sector currently dominated by PayPal, Visa, MasterCard and American Express. The plan comes as mobile carriers look for more ways to make money in the U.S. as subscription growth slows.
The reason Marvell could be a good bet now: Its chipsets are favored components in practically all mobile handsets and other hand-held consumer electronics, including RIM's BlackBerry, Apple's iPhone and iPad, Amazon's Kindle and other devices.
The magazine's stinging rebuke over the iPhone 4's antenna problems ultimately may not deter too many Apple afficianados from buying, but the biggest beneficiary will be Google. It seems that its upstart Android operating system is gaining more momentum every day.
The Federal Trade Commission is set to handle the antitrust probe into Apple's mobile advertising business, after hashing it out with the Department of Justice over who would take the lead.
The New York Times will soon charge, AT&T is ceasing unlimited data usage for iPhones and not all video will be free on Hulu. It's slowly sinking in that even online, free can't compete with paid and unlimited can't compete with tiered. It's the end of an era.
Google says Apple's new iPhone advertising policies will prevent developers from using AdMob, the mobile ad company Google recently bought for $750 million. AdMob's Omar Hamoui says Google will "be speaking to Apple to express our concerns about the impact of these terms."
With so many blue-chips so beaten down in this season of selling, some buys must be out there, no? Here's a look at three potentials: BP, Nokia and HP. Are they cheap -- or cheap for a reason? (With video)
First announced a year ago, Google's new open-source operating system could enter the fray later this year. For investors, it's one more reason to be optimistic about the stock, which has languished so far in 2010.
With Skype releasing an iPhone app -- running on Verizon archrival AT&T's network -- it raises questions about Verizon Wireless's venture with Skype. Plus, Skype now plans to hike its Internet phone-calling and video rates.
Sprint kicks off the 4G era in the U.S. with the launch of the country's first 4G smartphone, the HTC EVO 4G. But while many mobile carriers are moving to adopt 4G, the new wireless standard may not be a slam-dunk with consumers.
As Google and Apple shape the future of the wireless sector and Hewlett-Packard enters the fray, two of DailyFinance's most seasoned senior writers unravel the course that wireless will take and explain how you can profit.
For giant HP, snaring Palm for $1.2 billion is a cheap way into the piping-hot mobile hardware and services market. And it's a direct assault aimed at its biggest players: Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Microsoft are in for a whole new battle.
Verizon and AT&T are grousing about FCC conditions applied to its recent approval of Harbinger Capital's takeover of SkyTerra. The rules are designed to spur competition, and the two biggest wireless players aren't happy about it.
Philip Falcone, who runs Harbinger Capital Parters, is taking on several of the country's biggest telecoms by leveraging three satellite investments into a massive 4G wireless network that one analyst has called "breathtaking in its ambition."
AT&T is launching a $150 device that you can use to blanket your home with strong wireless coverage. And other companies will soon offer similar solutions for offices. This could really ease the cellular congestion headache.
If you lie to yourself -- or your doctor -- about how much you eat, watch out. A new Band-Aid-sized sensor that you tape to your tummy could soon detect how many calories you consume and burn off. And it's just one of the new wireless medical devices that could change health care.
With Google's Android mobile operating system rapidly gaining share, Apple's CEO clearly sees a serious threat to the iPhone. Now, his dispute with Google CEO Schmidt is getting personal, and he's launched a legal campaign to thwart Google. But will Jobs's bullying backfire?
More than a quarter of Americans now get news via their cell phones, according to a new Pew Research poll -- another stark reminder of the massive problems facing today's media. The biggest draw for mobile news junkies: weather reports.
