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‘Electric Imp’ is a turnkey cloud for the internet of things

"The internet of things" — the concept wherein virtually all physical objects are digitally connected to each other at all times — becomes more realistic by the year as the necessary components shrink in size, cost, an...

RIM, Motorola told Apple they could find a nano-SIM compromise: here it is

Just hours ago, RIM and Motorola submitted an updated proposal for the design of the so-called 4FF nano-SIM, a smaller replacement for the 3FF micro-SIM used in many phones today (most notably the iPhone 4 and 4S). Debate between ...

HTC One X has messaging notification problem on ‘very small number’ of units, fix in the works

Have you found that your HTC One X isn't always letting you know when you've received a text message? We've observed the problem on two units here in CTIA this week, and HTC is now confirming to us that it's a known issue...

CTIA Wireless 2012: news, photos, videos, and more

CTIA's annual Wireless show is taking place in beautiful New Orleans this year, and we're expecting a variety of announcements — new phones, apps, and services are all on tap. The action kicks off in earnest on the afte...

AT&T’s Samsung Focus 2 announced: Windows Phone with LTE for $49.99 on May 20th

The long-rumored Samsung Mandel is finally official for AT&T as the Focus 2, an LTE-enabled Windows Phone for AT&T. Developing... Continue reading…

AT&T Digital Life home automation platform set for Dallas and Atlanta trials this summer

Ahead of the CTIA show in New Orleans this week, AT&T has announced Digital Life, a home automation and security platform that will be offered as a professionally-installed system directly through the carrier's stores (among o...

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson: ‘I wish we had moved quicker’ to kill unlimited data

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson — one of the most powerful individuals in the wireless industry and the boss of AT&T Mobility's Ralph de la Vega — spoke for over an hour this week and took questions as part of the ...

Verizon and SpectrumCo call T-Mobile a hypocrite, tell FCC to ignore criticism of AWS deal

Debate over Verizon's proposed acquisition of AWS spectrum from cable company joint venture SpectrumCo continues to rage unabated in Washington, and the company has now issued a scathing rebuke of T-Mobile's objections last week. ...

Clearwire starting TD-LTE launch in early 2013 with 31 ‘hot zones’: New York, LA, Chicago, and more

Clearwire is preparing to upgrade its 2.5GHz WiMAX network to support a variant of LTE, TD-LTE, that it's co-developing with China Mobile — and the broadband wholesaler has just announced that it'll kick off that upgrade in ...

Google wanted to subsidize a $9.99 unlimited data plan for Android phones

In documents revealed during the Oracle v. Google trial today, Google mentioned to T-Mobile back in 2006 that it wanted to turn the carrier plan pricing structure on its head by underwriting part of the cost of an unlimited data p...

Verizon to sell unused 700MHz licenses if allowed to buy controversial spectrum from cable companies

Verizon has announced today that it'll "conduct an open sale process" for its 700MHz spectrum licenses in the so-called A and B blocks, licenses that it doesn't currently use to support its ongoing LTE rollout. There's a catch, th...

Lumia 900 data connectivity fix now available for download

Earlier this week Nokia admitted that AT&T's Lumia 900 was suffering from data dropouts apparently brought out by memory management issues, promising a firmware update by next Monday — but they've beat their goal, it see...