Some big news in the telecom world today, as the Justice Department has sued to block AT&T's $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile on antitrust grounds. This is just like in the old days, when antitrust laws were enforced.

Intel's Secret Geekfest to Kill the iPhone

Owen Thomas

2/11/09 7:01pm

Apple's got the iPhone. Google's got Android. Even Amazon has the Kindle. After flirting several times with the ooohs-and-aaaahs gadget business, Intel convened a brain trust last week to work on their own mobile phone.

Carol Bartz Turns to Her Daughter for Yahoo Phone Research

Owen Thomas

1/30/09 1:30pm

Apple has the iPhone; Google, the G1. Where's the Yahoophone? We hear new CEO Carol Bartz nixed the Yahoo One Phone, a project with Motorola and AT&T, after her daughter got a look at it.

Google CEO pulled over for driving with a cell phone

Owen Thomas

11/19/08 4:20pm

No man is above the law — not even multibillionaire Google CEO Eric Schmidt. At least that's what we hear from a well-placed tipster, who says Schmidt recently confessed to having been pulled over by the cops last month in Los Angeles for talking on his cell phone while driving. (California law recently changed to…

Verizon will force customers to self-install Google

Paul Boutin

11/12/08 11:31am

The rumor mill says Microsoft has offered to pay twice what Google offered to take over as Verizon's default search engine on phones. I'll let Henry Blodget do the business analysis here ("MSFT will really take a bath on this one"). As a Verizon loyalist, my reaction is slow-burning rage. They're going to pocket a…

Sprint keeps bleeding dry

Alaska Miller

11/07/08 1:40pm

Sprint Nextel reported yet another quarterly loss, its fourth in the row. The wireless carrier was $326 million in the red, and also lost 1.1 million subscribers. CEO Dan Hesse said he wants the company to focus on customer service. Dan, how about spending less time filiming commercials and more time answering calls? [

Wi-Fi's golden age ends as AT&T gobbles Wayport

Paul Boutin

11/06/08 3:00pm

If wireless Internet access is such a hot technology, why is it such a dud business? I asked that question in five years ago, and I still don't know the answer. Since then, eager-to-please Wi-Fi startups have gone the way of boutique ISP service. AT&T, once broken up by law for being an evil monopoly, has reassembled…

Does Eric Schmidt hate show tunes?

Paul Boutin

11/04/08 1:40pm

The FCC is having its own vote today, on whether or not to allow future wireless gadgets to operate in parts of the radio spectrum already in use by wireless microphones. Google is all for the new spectrum-sharing policy. Professional musicians and their audio engineers are dead set against it.In theory, smartphones…

Motorola chief messages 3,000 employees: C YA

Paul Boutin

10/30/08 5:40pm

This is the layoff that matters. Motorola has already conceded to a demand by investment overlord Carl Icahn to spin off its money-losing mobile phone unit. Today's news is no surprise, but still: Motorola will ditch about 3,000 people through several agonizing waves of layoffs. Co-CEO Greg Brown is telling the press…

iPhone's image being tarnished by poor people

Paul Boutin

10/30/08 4:20pm

The Jesusphone is no longer just for privileged white folks. "The strongest growth in users is coming from those earning less than the median household income, particularly since the launch of the iPhone 3G." So says a report from ComScore, which concludes that "lower-income mobile subscribers are increasingly turning…

Motorola CEO's spouse doesn't Krave his phones

Paul Boutin

10/29/08 4:00pm

" When my wife switches, then you'll know," says Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha, whose spouse carries an LG Voyager and refuses to trade it for a Moto. Mrs. Steve Jobs? She . The company is cutting back from six operating systems to three: Windows Mobile, Moto's own P2K, and Google's open-source Android. Oh, and they're…

Google Earth on the iPhone proves Googlers can do math

Owen Thomas

10/28/08 4:20pm

Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets is shocked, shocked that the team working on Google Earth, Google's 3D interactive world map, launched a mobile app for the iPhone before writing one for Google's Android operating system, which now runs on all of one clunky phone sold by T-Mobile, the also-ran of the U.S.…

The Googlephone has a kill switch too

Alaska Miller

10/16/08 3:20pm

Google's Android phone has something in common with Apple's iPhone: Both gadgets have a " kill switch" to uninstall unwanted applications. Buried in Google's Android legalese is a clause that says Google might "discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement... in such an instance, Google retains…

RIM the next takeover target?

Owen Thomas

10/10/08 12:40pm

Shares of Research In Motion have declined from $148 to $60 in four months, falling along with most tech stocks. The difference between RIM and, say, Yahoo? Microsoft still wants to buy RIM, say some analysts cited by Reuters. Forget Google's still-not-on-the-market Android phones; RIM's BlackBerry is the only real…

Broadcom sues Qualcomm for supposedly ripping off its customers

Owen Thomas

10/09/08 4:00pm

If you like watching pie fights, this is equally entertaining: Broadcom is suing Qualcomm over its patent practices. Both companies sell wireless chips, but Qualcomm also makes money by licensing its patents to the same customers who buy its chips. Broadcom, in essense, is accusing Qualcomm of double-charging…

WagCurious

Alaska Miller

9/26/08 7:40pm

Google's world-domination plans involve airwaves where neither television nor wireless devices play. This issue is so important that Larry Page personally went to Washington to complain to the FCC. Today's featured commenter, , weighs in with some field knowledge. Stick around and learn something:

T-Mobile backs away from Googlephone bandwidth cap

Jackson West

9/25/08 10:40am

The technoblogomemesphere erupted in derision when T-Mobile's plans for a one-gigabyte monthly cap on bandwidth for the new HTC phone running Google's Android OS emerged. Customers who exceeded the limit would have seen their speeds reduced by a factor of 20. Anyone who wanted to listen to Internet radio or browse…

Googlephone is kinda ugly, but we took care of that guy who dared say so

Paul Boutin

9/24/08 5:40pm

My heart goes out to MySpace employee Ulf Waschbusch, who used to be a product marketing manager for Google Mobile and therefore saw the company's Android phone in its early stages. "The reason many people see the G1 as ugly and old-fashioned is simply … because it IS!" he . "It’s a design unchanged for a while."…

Text-driving much more deadly than drunk driving

Paul Boutin

9/19/08 1:40pm

Thumb-typing while driving cripples your control of the steering wheel by 91 percent, and your reaction time by 35 percent, reports England's . That's far worse than booze or pot, which degrade response times by 12 and 21 percent, respectively. Still, the best reason to pull over is efficiency: The study's subjects…

First Android-loaded phone launches September 23

Nicholas Carlson

9/17/08 1:40pm

T-Mobile and Google executives will gather in New York on September 23 to to launch the HTC Dream, the first phone loaded with Google's mobile operating system Android to hit the market. Skeptics, such as ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn, say the Dream won't be a "real" Android phone. Why the quibble?"It is still just a…

Government Sues to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger

Intel's Secret Geekfest to Kill the iPhone

Carol Bartz Turns to Her Daughter for Yahoo Phone Research

Google CEO pulled over for driving with a cell phone

Verizon will force customers to self-install Google

Sprint keeps bleeding dry

Wi-Fi's golden age ends as AT&T gobbles Wayport

Does Eric Schmidt hate show tunes?

Motorola chief messages 3,000 employees: C YA

iPhone's image being tarnished by poor people

Motorola CEO's spouse doesn't Krave his phones

Google Earth on the iPhone proves Googlers can do math

The Googlephone has a kill switch too

RIM the next takeover target?

Broadcom sues Qualcomm for supposedly ripping off its customers

WagCurious

T-Mobile backs away from Googlephone bandwidth cap

Googlephone is kinda ugly, but we took care of that guy who dared say so

Text-driving much more deadly than drunk driving

First Android-loaded phone launches September 23

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