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Via mocoNews.com comes this story detailing more abou the 700Mhz spectrum auction:
“More information about the bidders in the upcoming auction for 700 MHz spectrum has trickled out, as people figure out who’s behind the different registered bidders (PDFs of all 266 entities are here and here). It wasn’t clear earlier if EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) had […]

Verizon and Palm have officially announced the Treo 755p:
“Verizon Wireless, owner of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Palm, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Palm Treo(TM) 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue- green. Beginning today, customers may purchase the Treo 755p online at www.verizonwireless.com, by calling 1-800-2 JOIN […]

I think it’s safe to say that since the iPhone supported YouTube videos every phone released thereafter has to support them as well. Well, here’s comes Helio rolling out YouTube support for their Ocean phone:
“Today Helio announced the availability of the company’s new YouTube Mobile application for the Helio Ocean messaging phone. Available for free […]

You have to admit, this is simply a brilliant way to solicit mobile users fed up with their current carrier.
A service that lets users make free mobile phone calls between 3G handsets has been launched this week with a view to replicating the success Skype has had in the fixed-line telecoms market. The service, called […]

Looks as if Moto is not doing as well as some investors might like to see. Their revenue is just not what it used to be.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (NYSE:MOT - news), the world’s second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected quarterly revenue and missed some analyst estimates on phone sales, sending […]

It’s interesting, but mobile carriers are simply not interested in working with Google on their latest efforts.
Google, the online search titan, is fighting for a piece of the nascent cell phone search market. Global mobile search advertising revenue is expected to reach $1.5 billion by 2011, up from virtually nothing today.
Yet the firm’s muscle won’t […]

Alright, this is pretty cool. Not sure how much more work they plan on putting into this device before it goes to market, but even still, it’s pretty cool.
The Onyx, a phone concept by […]

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – I do not think that these sideshow type domains have squat worth of value.

Yup, this would definitely be considered some very mobile computing, all right. Just take a gander for yourself as the iPod becomes the PC.

Sony Ericsson has made a fairly bold move recently. It seems that they have opted to start up a new download service of their very own.

It figures that we will not be seeing mobile TV given away anytime soon. Oh wait, what is this now? It appears that this mindset has taken a full 360…

And so, another chapter in wireless history is about to come to a close. The great wireless auction is nearing its end.

You know, I never figured that I would be seeing carriers uniting for much of anything if truth be told. Then we have this…

In many ways, I think that we are simply a little slow to adopt anything too cool or risky here in the states.

Just when things look their worst, the most unlikely development takes place to save a failing company in Zurich.

We’ve seen this in many rural parts of the world, and now it is taking hold again - this time in rural parts of China.

Too late with China? Consider looking into the Indian market instead…

Who would have thought. Text message that saves lives? Perhaps text messaging is not all that bad after all?

I do hope that they have better luck with preventing huge charges on stolen mobile devices than we have had here in the US.

Even with Moto’s amazing sales thanks to their RAZR phone, it appears that Nokia has managed to come away largely unscathed.