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The highly anticipated iPhone 4S has sold out for pre-orders ahead of the phone's store launch on Friday, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have all reported on their Websites.

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Wireless carriers in the U.S., who are earning as much as 20 cents for sending and another 20 cents for receiving a text message, are worried that this profitable source of revenue will no longer be available to them, once Apple's new instant messaging application, iMessage, is released on Wednesday.

Sprint will be among the few carriers to sell the upcoming iPhone 5.

Cell phone service across all of the largest wireless took a hit on Tuesday after the 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook in Virginia, sending tremors all over the East Coast.

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is launching seven BlackBerry 7 handsets starting mid-late August, representing its largest product cycle historically, which is twice broader than last year's BlackBerry 6 product cycle, RBC Capital Markets said in a note to clients.

As it sells off its flagship aircraft carriers over a government website, Britain is finding enthusiastic interest from an unexpected group -- Chinese businessmen potentially keen enough to outbid any other rivals.

Have the mobile carriers like AT&T, Verzion, Sprint and T-Mobile got the much-awaited Apple iPhone 5 in hand for beta testing? Well, a new round of rumors has indicated that various mobile carriers are in the process of testing the future generation of iPhone for their networks.

Apple's iPad is a product that has decimated competition like no other. Android OS-based rivals and challengers in the tablet sphere have bit dust big time when they had to face down the Apple iPad high winds. However, the same is not happening in smartphone segment. The wireless carriers appear to be preferring Android smartphones to Apple iPhones for a variety of reasons, making it challenging for Apple to tip the scale in their favor.

Mobile service providers are reworking charges for wireless connections on tablet computers to lure in customers put off by costly fees.

The biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, are not setting up a separate network for payments on transactions done by phones, the Wall Street Journal said.

U.S. wireless operators will have to pay higher subsidies for cellphones as they come with more features, according to Dan Hesse Chief Executive of Sprint Nextel.

U.S. wireless operators will have to pay higher subsidies for cellphones as they come with more features, according to Dan Hesse Chief Executive of Sprint Nextel.

President Barack Obama will unveil his plans to expand high-speed wireless service to at least 98 percent of Americans within five years, while reducing the U.S. deficit by about $10 billion over the next decade.

Mobile carriers risk an end of profit within four years amid increased smartphone usage, rising investment costs and falling revenue per unit of data, says a new study.

In terms of unlimited data plans, Sprint is way ahead of other carriers. Presently, Sprint Everything Data plan, with free calls to any mobile phone with unlimited data comes to $79.99 for a month whereas Verizon Wireless offers unlimited at $119.98 and T-Mobile offers $99.99 a month. But AT&T doesn’t offer any unlimited data plan.

American Airlines has seen a year-over-year increase in its overall ticket sales after it pulled its schedules and airfares details for American Airlines and American Eagle flights from Orbitz.com last week.

The three companies are starting a joint venture, Isis, in order to build a national commerce network that will utilize mobile phones to make point-of-sale purchases.

After Google failed to bypass carriers with Nexus One, Apple couldn't resist carrier pressure and folded its plans to weave the SIM card into the hardware in partnership with Gemalto.

Airplanes do not look much like birds. But, according to a pair of engineers in California and South Africa, a bird's design could make an aircraft more fuel efficient.

Britain and France are getting ready to unveil plans to share aircraft carriers amid pressure on the British military to cut costs, the Times reported on Tuesday.