NEW ORLEANS–After you’ve covered the big news and handled the new phones, it’s always fun to walk the CTIA show floor and seek out the weird and wonderful. There’s usually plenty of sights to behold, and you always can count on NTT DoCoMo to lead the way. The Japanese carrier’s booth this year was smaller …

NEW ORLEANS–After introducing its CUE touch-screen instrument panel at CTIA last October, Cadillac has returned to the 2012 wireless trade show with more services. When CUE is introduced in the 2013 Cadillac XTS next month, buyers will be able to test the system on a new iPad app. According to Cadillac, the app will replicate many of the system’s features …

On a sultry New Orleans afternoon today, AT&T took over a century-old Garden District mansion to open the 2012 CTIA. Yes, the annual wireless confab doesn’t formally open until tomorrow morning, but the news already is coming fast and furious. And though I don’t arrive in the Big Easy until tomorrow either, a big CNET team is on the ground …

Wireless charging isn’t new, but the technology soon will get a new push from large industry players like Samsung and Qualcomm. At CTIA in New Orleans today, the two companies announced the formation of the Alliance for Wireless Power (AWP). The organization will “promote global standardization of a wireless power transfer technology” by fostering an industry dialogue and developing a …

As expected, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S III smartphone today to a crowded house at its “Unpacked” event in London. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S III First Take Samsung’s Galaxy S III has ears and eyes just for you Samsung unveils Galaxy S III phone with quad-core, Android ICS Though Sammy was long on promises about how amazing the …

In the middle of its Samsung Galaxy S III press conference today, Samsung gave more details about its developing media services. Though we’ve known about the company’s Video Hub and Music Hubs since the reveal of the Galaxy Tab 2 last February, the Galaxy S III adds a new Scan and Match feature designed to compete with iTunes Match. Related …

Though finding an affordable AT&T texting phones never has been a problem, the carrier introduced yet another choice today. The LG Xpression has a red slider design that hides a full QWERTY keyboard behind the 3-inch, 262,000-color touch screen. Features include a 2-megapixel camera with video, a personal organizer, Bluetooth 2.1, messaging and e-mail, 3G support, microSD card support (up …

I know what you’re thinking after reading that headline, but get your mind out of the gutter! It does appear, though, that T-Mobile’s Carly Foulkes has a side we haven’t seen before. In a television ad that the carrier posted on YouTube, a bored-looking Carly pads around her posh big city penthouse in search of something to do. Then, after …

The annual CTIA Wireless show usually brings us a host of shiny new cell phones. And given the event’s U.S. focus, we have the pleasure of knowing that all the handsets introduced eventually will end up stateside. Yet, when the 2012 show beings May 8 in New Orleans, CNET has learned that Sony won’t be in attendance. In an e-mail, …

Slowly but surely, wireless carriers are admitting that data throttling is unavoidable. First it was the national providers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and now even the smaller prepaid carriers are following the crowd. Today, just as it increased the monthly cost of its unlimited plan by $10, MetroPCS also announced that it would begin throttling the data speeds of …