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Verizon Wireless said today that its 4G service returned to normal on Wednesday evening after a “technical issue” resulted in connectivity problems for some users. A Verizon Wireless spokesperson said the issues should not be characterized as an outage. “Some 4G customers had reported intermittent or unavailable 4G service, or devices operating on 3G, for periods of time starting late Tuesday,” Verizon said today. “Throughout this time, all customers were…

The new iPhone 4 8GB edition from Apple offers a lower memory capacity for a smaller price tag than the two larger capacity 16GB and 32GB models but up until now has been priced very similarly to the deals for the 16GB refurbished handset. Retailers have been able to offer significant discounts on the iPhone 4 16GB as a ‘clearance’ phone by inspecting, refurbishing and re-boxing their returned stock which…

Although the idea might seem laughable for now, but looks like Windows Phone 7 is slowly striding towards getting everything iOS has. Barely two days ago, we got WP7’s version of Cydia (dubbed Bazaar) and today, the folks over at Windows Phone Hacker have launched the first ever comprehensive theming platform for the metro OS. Themes for WP7 is a desktop application using which you can create custom themes for your Mango…

A ruling handed down on Friday by the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany could see sales of Apple’s iOS devices banned across Europe. The judgement relates to a patent infringement complaint filed by Motorola last April, when the company accused Apple of infringing a Motorola-owned patent covering ”a method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet radio system.” Friday’s ruling is preliminary, however, and according to…

It has been an eventful year in the telco space to say the least. ARN explores some of the notable telco topics of 2011. NBN in 2011 Since it was first announced in 2009, the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been relentlessly covered by the media. But 2011 has been particularly special for the NBN as it hit several key milestones. That’s not to say it wasn’t marred by controversy….

Posted December 16th, 2011 by John After flying from Boston to San Francisco a while back, I was standing in the back of the aircraft waiting for everyone in front of me to deplane and overheard two women comparing their phones. One showed off a new Android phone while the other flashed an old, non-smartphone saying something on the order of “Look at this old thing I use…” the Android…

Britons asking themselves whether they should sell their mobile phones in order to upgrade to a new device may find their mind is made up by the launch of a particular model. The network Three has confirmed it is now offering the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio as part of its portfolio. With the handset having arrived at the company and being available for sale through its stores and…

Verizon Wireless is scooping up more wireless spectrum from another cable provider. On Friday, Cox Communications said it will sell Verizon Wireless its 20MHz slice of wireless spectrum for $315 million. as part of the deal, Verizon and Cox will resell each others residential and commercial services. the deal is similar in scope to one Verizon announced a couple of weeks ago with a consortium of cable operators called Spectrum…

UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria, Dec 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –austriamicrosystems (six:AMS), a leading worldwide designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs for consumer & communications, industry & medical and automotive applications, announced today that the company supplies high volumes of intelligent ambient light and proximity sensors into four Samsung Galaxy models. for the successful Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Gio, Galaxy Mini and Galaxy Neo models, austriamicrosystems delivers integrated ambient light and proximity…

Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform lacks support for any type of 4G wireless broadband. It doesn’t support WiMax or Long Term Evolution, which are the two 4G technologies being deployed in the United States by major network operators AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless recently indicated that Windows Phone’s failure to hop on the 4G bandwagon is preventing the nation’s number-one carrier from backing Microsoft’s mobile platform more fully. “We’ve…