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RIM to hold BlackBerry developer conference

bdolan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:49:40 -0400

Following in the footsteps of Apple's iPhone developer conference and Verizon Wireless recent open application development conference, RIM will hold its own conference for smartphone developers. Read more...

Metric: 3 in 10 households have cut the landline

bdolan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:42:46 -0400

According to the National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, about three in 10 households either only use mobile phones or rarely take calls on their Read more...

Verizon backs LiMo; Linux is preferred OS

Sue — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:39:24 -0400

Verizon Wireless is certainly not going to stand back and let Google's Android operating system dominate the mobile OS scene. The wireless operator today made the rumors official by announcing that Read more...

Verizon Wireless spurns Android for LiMo

bdolan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:34:06 -0400

Verizon Wireless announced its membership in the LiMo Foundation open handset consortium, committing to introduce across its handset lineup devices based on the group's mobile Linux operating Read more...

It's official: Virgin Mobile USA is in talks with Helio

bdolan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:21:25 -0400

After a week of speculation and rumors about a possible tie-up between Virgin Mobile USA and SK Telecom's MVNO Helio, Virgin Mobile has finally come forward and announced that the two are in Read more...

No deal: Earthlink pulls plug on Philly WiFi

bdolan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:06:28 -0400

Following up on our report earlier this week, Earthlink has pulled the plug on its $17 million municipal WiFi network in Philadelphia after failing to reach an agreement with the city to take over Read more...

On the Hot Seat with Bluepulse's Christopher Nguyen

mike — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:49:29 -0400

It's not often that a senior executive at Google steps down from his post to head a new startup but that's exactly what Christopher Nguyen, former engineering director of Google, did when he Read more...

AT&T: HSPA will provide 20 Mbps data speeds

Sue — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:42:15 -0400

During a presentation this morning at Morgan Stanley's 13th Annual Communications Conference in Washington, D.C, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that he believes AT&T has a Read more...

Winners of Google's Android Developer Challenge

bdolan — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:41:01 -0400

Google announced the 50 winning applications for its Android Developer Challenge. The first round ended with 50 applications, earning their developers $25,000 each. Of the 50, only 46 chose to Read more...

Google unveils top 50 Android applications

bdolan — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:36:46 -0400

While handsets that will make use of Google's Android OS are still in the development stages, Google has given the industry a clue as to what these phones will support today by announcing the 50 Read more...