With Google’s future in China uncertain, Motorola and Microsoft cut a deal to put the software giant’s Bing search engine on Android handsets in China. In a statement late Wednesday, Motorola and Microsoft announced a deal to put Bing on handsets. Bing will first launch in China in the first quarter via an over-the-air update …

Palm’s smartphone recovery took a big hit Thursday as the company sharply cut its outlook for the third quarter and fiscal 2010 because “driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than we anticipated.” How ugly is it? Palm said its third-quarter revenue will be $285 million to $310 million under generally accepted accounting principles. Non-GAAP revenue will …

WiMax appears to be a hit around the world–except for the U.S., according to deployment data released by the WiMax Forum Monday. WiMax, also known as 4G, now is offered on networks covering 620 million people in 147 countries, said the WiMax forum. By the end of 2010, 800 million people will be covered with 1 billion by the end …

Juniper Networks on Monday will launch three products for mobile network providers to get a bigger slice of the 3G, 4G, and LTE upgrade revenue pie. The big picture: Juniper, which primarily competes with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems for wireless business, sees networks converging. According to Mallik Tatipamula, vice president of service provider marketing at Juniper, the mobile network will …

Motorola on Thursday said it will split into two separate companies in the first quarter of 2011, roughly a year from now. The company had initially planned to spin off the mobile devices unit on its own. Now Motorola plans to spin off the mobile devices and home units into one company led by Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola. Jha …

Comcast reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results as it continued to poach telephone customers from incumbent carriers and bolstered its high-speed Internet subscriber base. The cable giant, which will become one of the larger media players if it closes its purchase of NBC Universal, delivered fourth-quarter earnings of 33 cents a share, up from 14 cents a year ago. That sum includes …

Sprint Nextel said it will cut 2,000 to 2,500 positions in the fourth quarter in an effort to save $350 million. The cuts will be completed by December 31. According to a statement, Sprint will cut jobs across the company, including its wholesale unit and contractors. The company said the cuts won’t impact customer service, something the Sprint has been …

AT&T’s bet on the iPhone continues to work well. The company reported Thursday a better-than-expected third quarter with 3.2 million iPhone activations–the largest quarterly activation total to date. The telecom giant had net income of $3.2 billion, or 54 cents a share. Revenue came in at $30.9 billion, down from $31.3 billion a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings …