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For the last year, smartphone makers have shipped 4G-capable devices using a technology known as "LTE". 4G, as the name implies, it is much faster than traditional 3G, sometimes as much as 10 times fa    

There's no doubt that the iPhone has been a runaway success, but Apple has once again felt the need to make more devices. According to a new report, Apple plans to order as many as 26 million iPhones from    

The folks up at Google Inc. have just announced that the company will be acquiring Motorola Mobility for a whopping12.5 billion in an attempt to “supercharge” Android.    

Happy Monday to you, and happy Monday to Motorola Mobility, which Google has announced is about to become its next acquisition. This comes hot on the heels of a56 million Q2 net loss for Moto -- and CEO Sanjay    

Apple has upward adjusted the total order volume for iPhones, consisting of iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 CDMA and iPhone 5, for the second half of 2011 by 12-13%, from 50 million units originally estimated at    

In another sign of the technology industry's fundamental shift away from PCs and toward mobile communications, the wireless segment is expected to overtake computers to become the world's leading appl    

Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 16.5% increase from the second quarter of 2010, according to Gartner.    

Intel has indicated that notebook vendors Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo, among others, will roll out ultrabooks with suggested retail prices to be set below US$999 in the fourth quarter of 2011.    

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will stop selling both feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the United States and Canada as it gears up to launch its first smartphones running its platform of the future, Microsoft&    

The following charts the top U.S. wireless carriers in the second quarter of 2011 by subscriber base, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, and includes major metrics--such as churn, ARPU and revenue--