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AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest U.S. mobile operators, have joined an organization that ensures roaming among mobile operators’ Wi-Fi networks. The group, called the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), also announced on Monday that South Korean mobile operator KT, Cisco Systems, U.S. cable operator Comcast, and wireless software vendor Devicescape Software have recently joined. [...]

Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android smartphones are getting set for another epic battle this week as these two titans of the smartphone industry show off their latest devices. First, on June 23 the Axis of Don’t Be Evil composed of Google, Verizon, and Adobe will announce the next wave of Android-based Motorola Droid devices. Then [...]

IBM will unveil its enterprise mobile software strategy to industry analysts on Wednesday as part of a grand opening of a new software development laboratory in Littleton, Mass. The strategy will involve IBM services and IBM software, a company spokeswoman said, without explaining further. Some new initiatives will involve middleware software used to support mobile [...]

Kaufman Brothers investment analyst Shaw Wu today contended that T-Mobile USA, not Verizon Wireless, will be the next U.S. carrier to sell Apple’s popular iPhone. In a research note e-mailed to subscribers on Thursday, Wu said that T-Mobile, like current exclusive carrier AT&T, runs a GSM network. The GSM setworks of the carriers run on [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been very clearly and fairly adamant that Adobe Flash is fraught with too many issues to be allowed on the iPhone or iPad platforms. No worries. Adobe has partnered with Greystripe to implement a solution that circumvents Apple’s ban on Flash and enables mobile advertisers to deliver Flash content on [...]

AT&T’s account management site went dark Monday after Apple announced that its U.S. cellular partner would waive contract requirements to allow more customers to upgrade to the new iPhone 4 this month. (For details on the new iPhone 4, to be released June 21, read InfoWorld’s coverage from WWDC.) The site came back online at [...]

Apple may be planning to develop solar-powered iPhones, suggested in patent filings that describe putting solar cells on portable devices and on iPods. This isn’t the first attempt to bring solar power to iPhones. As you may remember, in May, Dexim brought us the DCA19 P-Flip, a solar-powered battery and dock for the iPhone 3G [...]

More mobile network operators are placing their bets on the same next-generation mobile networking technology to offer users faster connections, according to a report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). There are now 80 firm LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network deployments in 33 countries. That is an increase of 16 network deployments since April 7, [...]

What appear to be images of the next-generation iPhone have surfaced online raising the possibility that the next version of Apple’s popular smartphone may be sold with a white backing. An extensive set of photos were emailed to an Apple repair shop in Huntsville, Alabama showing what are supposedly next-gen iPhone parts including the iPhone’s [...]

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious “rootkit” program they’ve written for Google’s Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas. Once it’s installed on the Android phone, the rootkit can be activated via a phone call or SMS (short [...]