Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) stepped to the precipice of blackout Armageddon—and wisely took a giant step back. Instead of risking their standing with subscribers and viewers, they put away the harsh rhetori...

Carl Icahn is not being conservative about his opinion that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) will be a more valuable company once it has been split into two publicly held entities. Rather, the shareholder-activist billionaire, who has been investing in the hands...

In February, the non-profit global Mobile Marketing Association took steps to tap into the soaring awareness of mobile by breaking up the organization into four operating regions. Today, it is announcing further measures to make sure that the MMA con...

Gameloft (EPA: GFT) is one of Apple’s biggest fans. In the first six months of the year, revenues from Gameloft titles grew 82 percent in the App Store, and in the first quarter, it claimed that 21 percent of all of its revenues came from Apple...

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is buying Rally Up, a startup behind a social networking app for the iPhone and iPad that lets users share their locations with select friends. The app pitches itself as a social network for “people that actually should know you...

As if a sign of the times, Verizon Wireless is offering data to smartphone users who prefer to pay by the month and not commit to a long-term contracts for the very first time. However, the service is neither discounted, nor more expensive than what...

Since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) sold three million iPads during the device’s first 80 days on the market, its closest rivals have been busy working on several copycats. Samsung is no different, and has unveiled the Galaxy Tab today, a device very similar...

Most media owners are strong believers in a strategy of “any-and-every-platform” ubiquity. But, for this season’s mobile strategy, the makers of the UK’s popular X Factor TV show are launching an “exclusive” app...

Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent is acquiring OpenPlug to have its own solution for helping developers move applications from one platform to the next operating system. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is the second acquisition Alcatel-Lucent has...

Samsung is getting ready to combine both state-of-the-art mobile phone design with an entire content strategy in recognition that in order to remain the U.S.‘s largest handset maker you can no longer rely on hardware alone to stand out of the crowd...

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today announced a slew of new products and features on its phone, music and video viewing offerings. Check out a visual tour of Steve Jobs’ presentation, as well as our coverage, below:

Apple’s annual fall event kicked off this morning with the company’s visionary leader Steve Jobs doing a couple of minutes of bragging, which has become typically at these kinds of launch events. The latest numbers: —iOS family o...

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is trying to close the loop between music discovery and iTunes Store’s music purchasing, by injecting a brand new social network in to iTunes itself. Integrated in to new iTunes 10 and in to the iTunes Store app on iOS, R...

Sprint’s board of directors is reportedly debating whether to let rival U.S. carrier T-Mobile USA invest in Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), according to the WSJ, which spoke with three people familiar with the situation. But in reality Sprint (NYSE:...

Sony will begin selling updated versions of its Reader Pocket and Reader Touch devices today, but it is still months away from releasing its new Daily Reader with WiFi access. In practical terms, that means that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will not be directly...

Revenues from mobile content, defined as music, games and video, are expected to top out at $3.53 billion in the U.S. thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, according to eMarketer, which released new estimates today. Last year, the combined mark...

Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies chain to the mix this fall, making that two options for would-be buyers to try out the device. The deal...

Three weeks into his new job at HP (NYSE: HPQ), Todd Achilles was pulled into the $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, which was struggling to gain traction as its cash reserves dwindled. As Hewlett-Packard’s VP of Telco Sales, Achilles is now run...

As luck would have it, I was on the go when the U.S. leg of the tennis Grand Slam started Monday, providing a good chance to test the live streaming video for iPad and the new mobile features from USOpen.org. The USTA went iOS-centric with an iPad-op...

It’s taken nearly nine months for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to launch a Bing search application on Android after launching it first on the iPhone—and still, it will only work on Android devices using the Verizon Wireless network.