Clearwire says it doesn't need stimulus money to complete its WiMax deployments, but is reviewing the rules for a bid on the broadband billions

Nokia Siemens tells Unstrung it has shifted its R&D focus away from WiMax and into HSPA+ and LTE

Nokia Siemens tells Unstrung what it plans to do with Nortel's LTE access assets when the acquisition is complete

Sprint Nextel claims it will be the first operator in the US to launch a 3G femtocell

The carrier is holding hiring days in Dallas & Seattle, just as it did before the soft launches in Atlanta and Las Vegas

As Huawei's LTE trial activity increases in Europe, the vendor looks to Japan with a new R&D lab in Tokyo

German operator E-Plus launches an ad-supported service using AlcaLu's new mobile ad server

Smartphone maker hurt by buyers likely waiting for the Palm Pre

Deal gets Clearwire more 2.5-GHz spectrum in California, Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere

AT&T is still heavily subsidizing Apple's latest iPhone

Workaholics tethered to their smartphones have another reason to switch to Apple: Rumors that Microsoft's Office Suite is coming to the iPhone are inching towards reality, and iPhone apps with document and spreadsheet editing capabilities are also on the way.

Palm is taking what it hopes is the next step in to make its Palm Pre a viable iPhone competitor. On Wednesday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm opened up its Mojo Software Development Kit (SDK) program to a "broad group of developers."

Reducing the number of mobile software platforms, but not by too much, is the key to unleashing pent up creativity in the mobile market, executives said on Wednesday.