Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Speaking in Sun Valley, where he is participating in the Allen & Co. conference, Murdoch said: “I don’t think that’s likely. We’re…

One of the (many) groundbreaking features about the iPhone has been its singular hardware design—which has made it easy for mobile game developers to create one title that works across all iPhones. But the launch of the 3GS, with its faster processor and higher speed chipset, has introduced a bit…

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is still finding places to cut back, even though it is in the middle of a major turnaround. The handset maker will layoff 74 more workers from its mobile-phone division at its Libertyville, Ill.-based offices, reports IDG News Service. The employees will have until the end of…

Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel confirmed today that it will indeed outsource the daily operations of its two wireless networks—both CDMA and iDEN—to Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), in a deal worth $4.5 to $5 billion over the length of the seven-year agreement. As part of the agreement, about 6,000 Sprint employees will…

Based on the iPhone’s current growth trajectory, it could catch and surpass Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for the top spot in the global smartphone market by 2013. This is according to Generator Research, a small firm, which counts Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as clients among…

There’s been no shortage of surprises when it comes to the lawsuit between Schaumburg-based Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and its former CFO Paul Liska, who is saying he was fired for refusing to accept misleading financial forecasts by the company’s mobile-phone division. Meanwhile, Motorola has accused Liska of plotting “an extortion-like…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has lost an arbitration hearing against VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) related to a mobile partnership that the companies were involved with, according to an SEC filing that just came out from Real. The judgment came down in May and there was a further ruling on it under which…

Just how dominant is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the mobile search market? According to StatCounter

Add maps and directions to the list growing list of features that a smartphone can do, just as well, if not better than a standalone device. As traditional GPS companies are scrambling to find a way to stay relevant, TomTom and Garmin try offering a range of new products and…

The mobile industry in the UK would benefit from shrinking down to just three or four companies, according to CEO of Telefonica-owned O2 Ronan Dunne. There has been much speculation that Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is seeking a buyer for its T-Mobile network in the UK and although O2 has…

The Department of Justice will have a hard time unearthing damaging evidence that mobile carriers in the U.S., including AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), abused their power in recent years, according to several lawmakers and regulators. An article in BusinessWeek today dives into rumors reported by the…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is back at work, but the company still can’t shake questions about whether it may have misled investors about the status of his health. Seven months after the SEC began an investigation into Apple Inc.‘s public comments on Jobs’s medical condition, the inquiry continues,…

—Al-Jazeera: Doha-based Arabic TV news al Jazeera has launched its first iPhone app costing $2.99, which is made in partnership with VOD company Livestation and indexes text news in English. Via ipodnn.com. —Audioboo: The British “audio blogging” platform has become the second iPhone app to integrate with Spinvox’s voice-to-text technology,…

When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched the App Store one year ago, no one knew how much it would change the way content is distributed in the mobile industry. But today, just a year later, we are starting to see what is likely just the beginning of a major revolution. On…

HTC is gearing up for a busy second half when it will launch Microsoft’s latest phones, and roll out its next generation of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android device, called the HTC Hero, which comes with a special software design called Sense. Maybe it is the Taiwanese handset-maker’s fast pace that…

One week-plus into owning an iPhone 3GS—and more than a year into reading, writing and editing iPhone app stories—I couldn’t think of an app announcement that would grab my attention, but Barnes & Noble has done it. The free B&N Bookstore iPhone app isn’t the flashiest but flash it at…

It’s been rumoured since March, and now it’s official. Telefónica has got the exclusive on the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, “initially” in Spain (Movistar), the UK and Ireland (O2) and Germany (O2), “when the device is launched in Europe in time for the winter holidays”. That means Telefónica now has…

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has been blogging, hosting meet-ups and talking to developers ahead of launching its first devices on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) operating system in hopes of convincing them to build applications specifically tailored for their phones. In doing so, Motorola has revealed a bit more about its strategy…

Neither Sprint (NYSE: S) nor Palm (NSDQ: PALM) are willing to say how many Palm Pres they have been able to sell, but that doesn’t stop people from speculating. A report released today says the Palm Pre is failing to meet expectations and sales are falling, which is in stark…