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Wireless Power Consortium has also certified the first products compatible with the interoperability standard.

Teens send a median of 50 texts per day, dwarfing the volume of texts sent by an increasing number of U.S. adults who use text messaging on their mobile phones, according to the Pew Research Center.

Cloud-based video and music service will challenge Apple's iTunes Store when it launches in Europe this fall.

Agency's decision to solicit additional feedback on wireless regulation hailed by industry groups, criticized by public interest organizations.

Resistive Random Access Memory, or ReRAM, is non-volatile memory with lower power consumption and much greater storage capacity than the Flash memory used in mobile phones and MP3 players today.

OpenPlug's tools allow mobile application developers to write an app once and then run on the Android, iPhone, Linux, Windows Mobile and Symbian mobile operating systems.

Multimedia, GPS, social networking capabilities are also factors in choosing a phone, finds Best Buy study.

Deal would help Sprint get funding to complete its WiMax rollout, and give T-Mobile a foothold in the 4G wireless market.

Carrier may offer an unlimited data plan for $30 per month with a minimum $45 per month voice plan.

App, previously available only for Apple devices, allows smartphone users to remotely access a virtualized desktop or PC.

Freshly separated from Motorola and at the start of a $7 billion contract to build the LightSquared nationwide 4G/LTE combo terrestrial-satellite network, the company is being approached by potential suitors.

Coupons.com data, based upon the number of coupons printed or saved to store loyalty cards in various categories, indicates distinctions between the users of the two mobile operating systems.

The wireless retailer is making the popular Android handset available for a limited time, but only to its friends on the social networking site.

The GoGo service, which uses a terrestrial cellular network, has been installed on 1,000 U.S. aircraft.

The Rover looks like an oversized hockey puck, fits in a backpack and can connect up to to eight laptops or other devices to the Internet at claimed download speeds of 3 to 6 megabits per second.

Skype has launched its Connect 1.0 enterprise VoIP calling service and is preparing to float a $100 million IPO amid rumors that Cisco is considering a bid to acquire the company.

Sprint's list price for the smartphone with a new service plan is $249.99, but Amazon is advertising the handset with the same terms for $50 less.

The $1.4 billion acquisition would expand the chipmaker's offerings in the smartphone market while also gaining a customer base that includes every major mobile phone maker.