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Apple Inc.'s next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, is facing much competition from Android devices. It is being speculated that the iPhone 5 is scheduled to come out at the end of September or in October. The top iPhone 5 competitors are: Motorola Droid HD, Samsung Celox, HTC Holiday, Samsung GT-i9220, and Samsung GT-i9250.

T-Mobile recently announced the Aug. 31 release of RIM (Research In Motion) Blackberry Bold 9900, which could become a more expensive device compared to the upcoming Apple iPhone 5.

AT&T is killing its $10-per-month, 1,000-text message plan to replace it with $20-per-month unlimited text message plan, a $30 unlimited family plan, and a pay-per-message plan.

AT&T just made yet another change to its plans. And once again, it's going to make them money.

AT&T has confirmed Thursday that it will kill $10 texting plan, which will force customers into all-or-nothing texting options, between an unlimited plan and a pay-per-text plan.

AT&T is getting rid of low-end texting plans, opting for an all or nothing model.

AT&T has confirmed Thursday that it will force customers into all-or-nothing texting option.AT&T users have so far enjoyed an option for $10 plan of 1,000 messages per month, which will be removed in three days.

Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings will have positive implications for Nokia Corp. and Apple Inc., but Research In Motion and HTC will have a neutral impact, Barclays Capital said in a note.

T-Mobile's 4G-enabled BlackBerry Bold 9900, which is powered by Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS 7, is set to hit shelves on Aug. 31 with pre-orders already started for business customers.

Research In Motion?s Blackberry OS 7 powered Blackberry Bold 9900, T-Mobile?s first 4G-enabled Blackberry, will hit the shelves on Aug. 31 with the carrier already offering pre-orders for its business customers.

Apple to offer carrier agnostic wireless communication devices.

Allegedly, some iPhone models are under testing phase with LTE while AT&T is installing 4G LTE equipment in a major Apple store, both pointing towards the birth of an LTE-enabled iPhone in the near future.

T-Mobile USA will be launching two smartphones, Samsung Hercules and HTC Ruby on Oct. 26, according to a leaked document obtained by Tmo News.

"Big announcement on the 29th," the company wrote in its official Twitter page.

Apple?s anticipated iPhone 5 is expected to arrive in September but new rumors suggest that the Cupertino-based company may delay the launch even further up to October.

If rumors are to be believed then a Sprint iPhone 5 may arrive this fall.

Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S), which fell 16 percent Monday, could fall further given its uncertain EBITDA, high debt leverage and lack of free cash flow.

About 45,000 employees of Verizon Communications went on strike after contract talks failed.

Why so big companies fall prey to cyberattacks so easily? According to hackers taking part in Defcon conference -- the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas -- workers at big corporations are poorly trained in security, which makes it easy for hackers to trick them into revealing key information.

AT&T Inc said some New York customers had voice service outages on Thursday morning because of a software problem that occurred during "routine maintenance activities."

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced five new handsets that run on its new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, in a bid to regain ground against rivals like Apple.