Fresh off its failed attempt to sell T-Mobile to AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and a Hungarian subsidiary have agreed to pay the U.S. Justice Department millions to resolve corruption charges.
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Australian brain surgeon Charlie Teo is one of 16 world experts who have accused a global newspaper of publishing “technical errors and misleading statements” in an article that rubbished the idea mobile phones cause cancer.
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Charlie Kindel, a 21-year Microsoft veteran who left the company in September 2011 to start his own company, described on Monday his views on why the smartphone operating system had failed to take the world by storm, in spite of being “superior” to Android.
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While some customers couldn’t rely on Best Buy to deliver their goods on time for the holidays, mobile app stores didn’t disappoint. Christmas day downloads of Apple iOS and Android apps more than doubled compared to years past, shattering records, according to a report.
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Nearly a year and two months after its launch, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace has hit a new milestone.
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A shift to a mobile communications technology could expose rail networks to hackers, according to a security expert.
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India’s leading telecom stocks, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Idea Cellular Ltd, have underperformed the markets in recent weeks after a strong outperformance for most of this year. The stocks had done well earlier mainly because of the halt to the trend of tariff declines. For the first time in a very long time, telecom companies took a price hike, something that evidently had investors enthused. … more

Italy’s anti-trust body has fined units of U.S. technology group Apple Inc a total of €900,000 (£750,000) for failing to adequately inform customers about their rights to product guarantees and assistance.
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India’s telecommunications commission approved increases in available wireless spectrum, sharing and trading of airwaves and steps to make it easier for mobile phone companies to buy rivals. … more

AT&T’s decision to drop its bid for T-Mobile is a victory for the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, which steadfastly opposed a deal that would have locked the wireless market into a duopoly and been bad for consumers. But the battle to defend competition in telecommunications is hardly over. … more