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Report: Sprint to introduce WiMAX smartphone
Sprint Nextel, which resells WiMAX service from Clearwire and owns a majority stake in the company, is poised to introduce the first U.S. WiMAX next week during the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las... Read more...
AT&T details 3G investments
AT&T Mobility issued a flurry of press releases that detail some of its planned 3G investments for 2010 in various markets across the US, as part of its plan to spend $18 billion to $19 billion... Read more...
AT&T intros first Android device, blocks non-market apps
AT&T has introduced its first Android-powered device, the Motorola Backflip smartphone, and it is reportedly preventing subscribers from installing non-Android Market apps from unknown sources,... Read more...
Motorola open to using Windows Phone 7
Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, which has appeared to put all of the company's efforts into the Google Android OS camp, told the Wall Street Journal that he is open to the company building... Read more...
Amazon.com intros e-reader app for BlackBerry devices
Amazon.com introduced new e-reader software that allows certain BlackBerry devices to access e-books. Called the Kindle for BlackBerry, the free beta app is available for download from Amazon.com.... Read more...
Verizon, Skype to launch Skype Mobile app for smartphones
In a move that would have been unheard of just a year ago, Verizon Wireless and VoIP provider Skype announced they will launch a custom Skype Mobile application for Verizon smartphones starting in... Read more...
Executives drive consumerization of mobility, but at high risks to the business
A few months ago in this column, I discussed how employees were pushing mobility forward on their own while IT was waiting on the sideline during the economic downturn. The message was that users... Read more...
Google reduces Nexus One equipment recovery fee, offers live support
Google has reduced the equipment recovery fee it charges for the Android HTC-made Nexus One smartphone from $350 to $150 and introduced a phone support line to answer questions from Nexus One... Read more...
Acer Android smartphone sales exceeding expectations
Newbie smartphone vendor Acer, the world's second largest computer maker, announced that sales of its touchscreen Android phone, called Liquid, have exceeded expectations. The company is experiencing... Read more...
BlackBerry Curve best-selling smartphone in 4Q
The BlackBerry Curve was the best-selling smartphone in the fourth quarter, according to research firm IDC. The device beat out Apple's iPhone 3GS, despite the fact that Apple's iPhone sales grew 100... Read more...
