New data shows that cell phones are increasingly being used not for talking but primarily for sending texts. According to the CTIA’s latest figures, American cell phone users sent a whopping Read more: Americans now sending 4 billion texts daily  Read More →

The mobile industry is on a tear. The CTIA semi-annual wireless industry survey has just been released , and while numbers showing robust mobile broadband growth are no surprise, data released on consumer text messaging behavior certainly caught our... 

We’ve known this was coming for a while (some of you shared your GeoCities memories back in April), but Yahoo today sent out a final closure notice with the date of GeoCities’ demise: October 26. Back in the proverbial day, GeoCities was... 

UPDATE (1:48PT): AT&T confirms that its network is ready for VoIP. In a statement, they write, “AT&T* today announced it has taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on iPhone to run on AT&T’s wireless network.... 

The Jabra Halo stereo Bluetooth headset, open and folded. (Credit: Jabra) I was quite impressed with the Jabra Halo stereo Bluetooth headset when I first saw it at CTIA 2009 in Las Vegas. It looked thin and lightweight, and promised to be the first wireless... 

The zBoost One has a compact design. (Credit: Wi-Ex) Wi-Ex, the manufacturer of the zBoost line of cell phone signal boosters, announced two new products at CTIA . Though we didn’t get the chance to check them out while in Las Vegas, we can pass... 

Welcome to CTIA (Credit: Kent German/CNET) The best place at any trade show is your departure gate at the airport. While events like CTIA certainly can be interesting, and even fun, they’re also a lot of work. What’s more, I don’t enjoy... 

Check out the sights from the CTIA show floor. (Credit: Kent German/CNET) As CTIA 2009 closes, so does the busy cell phone trade show season that began three months ago at CES. And now that the CNET crew has left Las Vegas for San Francisco and New York... 

PCD ’s showed a fun twist at CTIA with the admittedly awkward looking TXT8030 by designing the handset’s lower section to rotate with business up front and party in the back — yeah, like a mullet. One one side is a QWERTY pad and on... 

What do you get if you stick a Nokia N97 in the dryer on high heat for an hour, rip the keyboard off with your bare hands, and replace S60 with a seemingly random stream of digital puke? Probably something akin to this little bugger, we’d reckon....