The FCC is looking for data that shows how the current level of competition in the cellular industry is affecting consumers… . . Read Full Story

Mexico Eyes Mobile Phones To Boost Financial Service UseWall Street Journal"We are creating a regulatory framework to allow mobile phones to be used like a debit card," said Carlos Marmolejo, director of technology and risk … . . Read Full Story

Filed under: Telus Mobility, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA We can imagine the phone call now: “GSM Association, how can I help you?” “Yo, this is Telus… where’d you hear September for our HSPA launch? What are you smoking?” “But we…” “Yeah, ‘but you’ nothing. October, broham… you heard it here first. Telus out.” (click) [Thanks, Alex] GSMA backpedals, changes Telus’ HSPA launch window to October originally appeare... Read Full Story

We already exclusively scooped the Samsung Rogue’s release date and pricing, and gave you a bunch of crispy live shots, so what more do you want? Ok, how about everything… Our posts covering the Rogue have been pretty hot topics, so we figured that we’d close the door on any remaining questions our readers might [...] . . Read Full Story

Lara Croft is back at Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s N-Gage in the title called Tomb Raider: Underworld. This time the adventurous beauty aims to retrieve Thor’s Hammer, and it’s your job to help her do that. Unfortunately, the new game (despite the fact that it’s new), is a simple N-Gage port of a limited Symbian version [...] . . Read Full Story

Steve Richter! Our friends at AT&T pinged us earlier this month to see if we wanted to give away a new Sony Ericsson W518a to celebrate the launch of its AT&T Share Facebook app. We wouldn’t dream of depriving our readers of the chance to win a shiny new handset of course, so we were [...] . . Read Full Story

The first Android model that supports flash is apparently going to be available for pre orders at Best Buy starting on September 13th… Photos: . . Read Full Story

Apple has been involved in steering new Web standards for some time now—many Web developers take the tag for granted now, but it was an Apple-only technology back when Dashboard was the latest thing. Apple will now be even more vested in Web standards now that Tim Berners-Lee has named Maciej Stachowiak, manager of the WebKit WebApps Team at Apple, as one of the new co-chairs of the HTML Working Group at the W3C. Stachowiak has been involved in open source development for some time, a... Read Full Story

Brand new screen keyboard for the Palm Pre, Google Maps version 3.2.1 for WM and Symbian brings two new functions, Jabra announces a new Bluetooth stereo headset called the Halo… Photos: . . Read Full Story

Filed under: Handsets, Apple Streaming and subscription music services are a dime a dozen on iPhone, and they seem to get past Apple’s app store approval hurdles with relative ease. But Spotify was one whose fate wasn’t so clear cut, given its offline playlist function — which as the name suggests downloads songs ahead of time for you to listen to when there’s no WiFi or phone service to stream from — could very easily fall into the category of “duplicatio... Read Full Story