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…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) stock reached an all-time high yesterday, closing at $411.63 and valuing the company at $381.62 billion, as reports of new products—believed to be new models of the iPhone—continue to swirl. (CNET)

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) meets with Samsung in court in Japan and requests an injunction on Smartphone Galaxy devices. Meanwhile Samsung get a key distribution win for its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the country: promotion by NTT Docomo for…

We may be approaching the point where it’s fair to ask the following question: Where haven’t Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung sued each other in court over patent and design infringements? Today, Japan became the latest country to see legal action from Apple over allegations that Samsung violated Apple patents…

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…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: iPod Touch: A new rumor suggests that the fifth-generation iPod Touch, scheduled for this fall, will have 3G connectivity. (via 9to5 Mac)

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Twitter partners up with Docomo on innovative location services; Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) gears up for layoffs; Samsung debuts a new screen that some think portends what we might see in the next iPad; and Huawei redoubles efforts in the…

—Windows Phone 7: Devices built on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform finally go on sale in the U.S. First models out the door, as listed on Microsoft’s own storefront, include HTC’s HD7 on the T-Mobile network; and the HTC Surround and the Samsung Focus, both on AT&T (NYSE: T). All devices…

It’s been three years since I started working at mocoNews. In that time—I turned my living room into an office, which I sentimentally call mocoNews World Headquarters—I’ve written nearly 3,000 posts, and I’ve met so many people—some of whom had million-dollar ideas and others who were destined to fail. I’ve…

You can literally trace the roots of this story back to the beginning. Nuance, which makes the very popular T9 text input for cellphones, has developed a new product for touchscreens that lets you drag your finger around the keyboard to spell out words and sentences. It’s very similar to…

Verizon Wireless has quietly launched a media storage service that costs $2.99 a month for a user to back up 25 gigabytes worth of photos, documents and other unprotected content from the phone to the cloud. Eventually, the idea is for that content to be viewable on a variety of…

Apple’s iPhone 4 did not give the company the bump in sales it needed to put Android’s momentum in check. Instead, Apple’s smartphone marketshare in the U.S. dropped by 1.3 percent in the three months ended in July while Android’s share grew by an impressive five percentage points, reports ComScore.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has agreed to pay $111.6 million for the remaining 65 percent interest in PacketVideo that it did not already own to create new services that would allow users to share content easily between phones and other consumer electronics.

—Qualcomm’s FLO: The chip-maker and mobile TV service provider put out five press releases today at Mobile World Congress. First, it said it will be the first chipset maker to support Windows 7, also announced today. But it also provided an update on FLO TV and unveiled its next evolution…

Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), China Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform,” which is obviously in direct response to Apple’s success with its own…

The LiMo Foundation has been running under the radar with competing mobile operating systems like Palm’s webOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s getting significantly more attention. But today, it’s sticking its head up and saying that it has widespread support, and that we’ll see significant progress from the open-source Linux platform…

Japan-based NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has offered to buy net mobile, a Germany-based mobile content distribution company. DoCoMo said it will offer EUR 6.35 ($9.28) a share in cash for all outstanding shares, which represents a 53.9 percent premium over the three-month average share. Based on the 6.55 million shares…

PacketVideo, the San Diego-based mobile video and software company that has been around since 1998, has sold about 35 percent stake in the company to Japanese mobile giant DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM). The firm is part of NextWave Wireless. The all-cash deal is intended to “strengthen DoCoMo’s position in advanced music…

—Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Mag Gets Mobile: The Discovery Channel Magazine in Asia has started using ZapCodes from Colorzip. It involves a color-coded square included with the articles, which people take a picture of and send in to receive extra content. “The best thing for us is that ZapCode allows readers…