Verizon Wireless today announced plans to develop a 4G wireless network using LTE (Long Term Evolution), the 3GPP's 4G technology. Trials will begin in 2008. CNET News' Tom Krazit notes that...

Okay, so it wasn't an exploding mobile phone... The Korea Times' Cho Jin-seo reports that a co-worker has confessed to having accidentally killed a Korean miner, then making it appear that he...

Google today announced the launch of version 2.0 of Google Maps for Mobile with the addition of the company's My Location technology, which uses cell tower IDs to triangulate a user's...

The Associated Press is reporting today that a South Korean miner appears to have been killed by an exploding LG mobile phone battery. "He sustained an injury that is similar to a burn in the...

UK pub operator JD Wetherspoon will offer unlimited free Wi-Fi at all 680 of its pubs in England, Scotland and Wales starting next Monday. "We are keen to provide our customers with as many...

The Guardian's Bobbie Johnson this week broke the news that Transport for London, Nokia and O2 are finalizing plans for a mobile phone handset with a built-in Oyster card, using NFC to transmit...

Verizon Wireless today announced plans to open its network to any qualified CDMA device and any application by the end of 2008. Machinist's Farhad Manjoo says it's a win/win for Verizon and...

Alcatel-Lucent today announced agreements valued at 750 million Euros (approximately $1.1 billion) with both China Mobile and China Unicom, secured through the company's China-based (and partly...

TAG Heuer and ModeLabs today announced plans to work together on a series of luxury mobile phones, following in the footsteps of Prada and Armani, among others. TAG's first phone is expected to...

Amazon.com this week introduced the Amazon Kindle, a ten-ounce, $400 e-book reader that downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers over EVDO (with no subscription fee) without any need for a...

The Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine this week published a study warning that Wi-Fi may be responsible for an increase in childhood autism. "These findings tie in with...

Verizon Wireless this week introduced the Verizon Wireless FlipShot by Samsung, which boasts a 3-megapixel camera with a rotating display, as well as Bluetooth - and a business card scanner! Whee!...

UK operator Orange this week announced an agreement with The Cloud to give Orange customers access to The Cloud's UK Wi-Fi hotspot network. Orange already has Wi-Fi agreements with BT OpenZone,...

T-Mobile Germany announced this week that, in response to a court injunction sought by competitor Vodafone, it would release an unlocked version of the Apple iPhone - for approximately $1,500....

The Associated Press' Yuri Kageyama reports that Hitachi this week unveiled its new EMIEW 2 robot, only to have it "crash into a desk and demonstrate the challenge of turning automatons into...

The Telecom Regulatory Association of India (TRAI) this week announced that 8.05 million new mobile subscribers signed up in the month of October, bringing the total number of Indian mobile...

On Friday night (sneaky timing, guys!), T-Mobile announced that it's pulling the Sidekick Slide from store shelves due to a problem that causes the device to turn off when the slide mechanism is...

AirDefense this week announced the results of its 2007 Retail Shopping wireless security Survey, which tested 3,000 stores in the U.S. and Europe and found more than 2,500 wireless devices in use -...

CBS this week announced plans to create a 'CBS Mobile Zone' in Midtown Manhattan, covering more than 20 city blocks with Wi-Fi from Times Square to Central Park South and from 6th Avenue to...