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Market intelligence firm TrendForce has reported that smartphone shipments increased significantly during the second quarter. Global shipments increased 31.4 percent over Q2 2012 as manufacturers sent 221 million units to retail. This is also a 6.6 percent increase over the first quarter of the...

Between the unveiling of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One and the announcement that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) had acquired Tumblr, it appeared that the previous week (May 19 through May 25) would lead the month for the biggest stories. The following week (May 26 through June 1) proved to be nearly...

Must be nice having people fight over you. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is used to that, though, but another battle is about to get underway and this time it’s in the prepaid phone market. With the price of contract plans feeling a lot like the typical cable bill, consumers continue to look for options...

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced this morning that it has sold 500,000 iPhones since the product arrived at the carrier less than one month ago. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) began selling the T-Mobile iPhone on Friday, April 12. Sales were so high that it created one of the most successful weekends in...

Not only does T-Mobile have the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, they “have it their way.” (Sorry for snatching your slogan, Burger King (NYSE: BKW). The “their way” part has to do with dumping phone subsidies and long-term contracts, all part of T-Mobile’s rebranding efforts as it builds its LTE...

Sprint (NYSE: S) has become one of the most attractive telecommunications companies in the world, having earned a $20.1 billion bid from Japan-based SoftBank last fall. Now the company has another suitor: DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH). The satellite TV giant surprised the world Monday morning when...

In new data released Tuesday, the iPhone is in the hands of nearly one out of every two users in this vitally important demographic. Recently, we reported that the latest ComScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) data found that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was gaining market share in the smartphone market. Out of the...

When Benzinga posted this article about T-Mobile announcing plans to get rid of contracts while still making smartphones affordable, the news was seen by many as unimportant. Everything is big in the cell phone business and when you’re number four behind goliaths like Verizon (NYSE: VZ), AT...

Few consumers are aware that it is technically illegal to unlock an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy S III or any other cellular device. The problem started last year when the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress failed to provide a key exemption to cellular devices (which it...

When Leap Wireless' (NASDAQ: LEAP) prepaid network decided to offer the iPhone in 2012, the company expected big sales. This was an easy expectation to make. After all, Sprint (NYSE: S) has been boasting about its high iPhone sales for several quarters. AT&T (NYSE: T) sold 8.6 million...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone is easily the most popular smartphone in the world. Samsung may collectively sell more devices, but not even the Galaxy S III -- which sold more than 30 million units last year -- can keep up with the iPhone. That success has allowed carriers to charge whatever they...

Now that Sprint (NYSE: S) is getting the iPad, all eyes are on the company's unlimited data plans. Will they carry over to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new tablets or will consumers be forced to buy chunks of data, a la Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T)? Sprint announced that its unlimited plans...

For the third straight quarter, Sprint (NYSE: S) has announced that it sold another 1.5 million iPhones. Once again, 40 percent of those units were sold to new customers. While that number is relatively small compared to the millions of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) products that AT&T (NYSE: T) and...

There are lots more on the earnings calendar this week, including results from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for the three months that included the release of the iPhone 5. Monday Results from Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will be the highlights on Monday, and analysts expect to see...

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), shares of which have dropped about six percent in the past week and a half as the Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) buyout played out, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Thursday, October 18, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking to see,...