The latest news on tech that helps you communicate, from cell phones and other mobile gear to VoIP and Internet access via broadband and wireless connections.
With GSM Association, companies ranging from Vodafone to Microsoft pool resources toward billion-dollar marketing initiative.
September 30, 2008, 7:18 AM PDT
roundup T-Mobile's unveiling of the first phone powered by Google's Android software will be only the beginning of a long effort to rewrite the rules of the mobile communications industry.
September 24, 2008, 9:33 AM PDT
In plans submitted to FCC Friday, cable provider says it will use software to determine bandwidth hogs and will temporarily give them a lower priority status.
(From Reuters)
September 20, 2008, 9:30 AM PDT
In the deal, announced Tuesday, BT has agreed to pay $105 million in cash for Ribbit, which bills itself as "Silicon Valley's first phone company."
July 29, 2008, 9:03 AM PDT
Two companies start taking preorders for the new iPhone, but errors and site slowness lead to confusion.
July 7, 2008, 11:26 AM PDT
Openwave sells those parts of its business to LiMo member Purple Labs, which plans to use the mobile Internet technologies in its Linux platform.
July 7, 2008, 6:15 AM PDT
Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
June 26, 2008, 12:02 PM PDT
Dutch scientists find that the tracking-and-tracing chips can interfere with hospital equipment, thus putting patients in danger.
June 26, 2008, 8:11 AM PDT
roundup With an acquisition and a new foundation, Nokia casts the operating system into the limelight hogged by iPhone and Android.
June 24, 2008, 2:28 PM PDT