AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government to the deal and noting that the scrapping of the deal will “not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.”

We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…

The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom; (NYSE: DT) now another mega mobile merger is coming up to bat against the regulators: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is…

The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom; (NYSE: DT) now another mega mobile merger is coming up to bat against the regulators: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is…

Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing their merger application from the FCC. Additionally, AT&T will post a charge of $4 billion due to the risk of the deal collapsing. The news comes…

Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest vote of confidence yet from the carrier community today, as some 45 of them endorsed NFC and committed to support and launch services based on it. The crucial questions…

Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the service into other aspects of the device? Well, here come more: Orange today is announcing that it will start to sell three new phones across its…

T-Mobile USA’s declining fortunes drove it to a merger with AT&T (NYSE: T), but while that deal continues to be investigated by regulators and strongly opposed by competitors, ironically, the operator seems to be showing some improvements.

Yesterday, figures out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech underscored how Apple’s share of smartphone sales in several key countries had actually declined compared to last year. Today, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) put out some news that points to how it hopes to reverse that trend: it announced the rollout of its newest…

Here’s news of a deal that shows not all the smaller companies chasing down big companies and small developers over patent infringement allegations are trolls. MacroSolve—which in September filed a case against AT&T (NYSE: T), Citigroup, Dell, Salesforce.com, Groupon and Living Social and others—has today announced a deal with the…

Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, an Ireland-based mobile social networking and cloud-services specialist NewBay for a sum believed to be in the region of $100 million.

A bit of non-Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) non-news from Nokia today, really just confirming once again what we have heard before from the company. CEO Stephen Elop today said that the handset maker is on track to show off its first devices built on Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the joint venture combining the wireless expertise of Sweden’s Ericsson with the branding and media strength of Japan’s Sony, has always theoretically held a lot of promise. But an interview published today with the company’s CEO, Bert Nordberg, gives a frank rundown of some…

Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device—and what, exactly, that device will be. Today, a new report out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech takes that one step further to lay out which operator will…

Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), which may find itself in a pickle with its U.S. operator T-Mobile USA if AT&T (NYSE: T) acquisition gets blocked—and still cannot offer the iPhone on its U.S. network—got a little sweet burst of breathless hype on its home turf when it emerged that the operator…

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty, the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, fall in the face of competition. But that is not stopping the rush of device makers looking to launch products to…

One of the promising selling points of Android, for carriers, was that, unlike Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), they would have more potential to get involved in the apps ecosystem—namely in areas billing, where they could make a cut on purchases and keep some “ownership” of their users. In reality, that has…

The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging business to Synchronica, a specialist in that field, for $25 million in cash. The deal includes operator-branded instant messaging and email services for 10 operators in the market—including…