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Clearwire is in legal hot water for reportedly offering service to customers outside its coverage areas. A lawsuit was filed in in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on March 31st that accuses the company of deliberately extending coverage limits to entice customers to sign up for the WiMAX service and…
Isis, a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, will kick off its mobile payment service in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Utah Transit authority will be the first provider to adopt the NFC-based mobile payment service. Isis is also working with the Salt Lake Chamber and Salt Lake City merchants to bring NFC payments to…
Pandora said today that it has been asked to provide documents for a federal grand jury probe into the sharing of personal information by mobile applications. The developer of the streaming music application is not the target of the probe, but one of many application developers reportedly sent a subpoena. This subpoena came to light in…
Senior analyst William Powers of Baird Research surveyed 250 working developers about their choice of platform and experiences in mobile development. The results show that more developers (71%) were developing for Android than iOS (62%). Other platforms such as webOS and Windows Phone 7 failed to garner more than 27% of those surveyed. Remember that…
AT&T confirmed it is raising the prices of its handsets for customers looking to upgrade early or buy without a commitment. The statement was sent from an AT&T representative to BGR and contained the following statement: “We’ve updated our early upgrade and no commitment price points for smartphones and feature phones. Only customers who are…
Chris Walsh of Chevron WP7 fame has developed a new method that lets any Windows Phone user install the latest NoDo update to his or her handset. Microsoft released a support tool for Windows Phone that can be modified to force a handset to update to the pre-NoDo (#7008) and NoDo updates all in a…
Motorola engineer Martin Cooper will go down in the history books as the first person to place a public cellular call on April 3rd, 1973. This historic event was arranged by Motorola to show off its new cellular calling technology to the FCC. At that time, Motorola has a vision for the cellular future and…
Twitter’s online safety account tweeted an alert yesterday that warns users of UberSocial and Twidroyd users of a potential privacy problem. According to the tweet, direct messages that are longer than 140 characters and are sent via the “d username” method are visible publicly. This glitch reportedly effects UberSocial for Blackberry and iPhone as well…
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps confirmed in a C-SPAN interview that he is not happy with AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The FCC regulator is concerned about the amount of power and influence this merged company would have over the wireless industry in the US. This merger would take 80% of the cellular industry and…
Verizon has kicked off 2011 with several hot, new handsets and analyst Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research canvassed 150 different Verizon Wireless stores to find out which handset is Verizon’s top selling model. Unsurprisingly, the top handsets in Verizon’ lineup are the iPhone 4 and the HTC Thunderbolt. Piecyk’s results show the two handsets are selling at an…