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The CEOs of both Sprint Nextel and its WiMax partner, Clearwire, signaled on Wednesday that they might move to LTE (Long-Term Evolution) in the future. Since Sprint and Clearwire separately embraced WiMax and then formed their joint venture in 2008, LTE has emerged as the 4G (fourth-generation) system most likely to dominate the mobile world. [...]

LAS VEGAS — Some users of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Series 7 will face a major hurdle when the mobile OS appears in devices during the 2010 holiday season — it isn’t backwards compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier versions. Microsoft may not view the lack of compatibility as a hurdle because it is looking [...]

Amid the industry hype about 4G (fourth-generation) mobile technologies this week at the CTIA Wireless trade show, the Wi-Fi Alliance will play up the growing importance of wireless LANs on mobile phones. The number of phones shipped with Wi-Fi jumped to 139.3 million in 2009, up from 92.5 million in 2008, the group said. ABI’s [...]