Rumor has it that Apple is planning to sell its latest crop of iPhones not just to AT&T and Verizon Wireless customers, but also to Sprint Nextel and possibly T-Mobile USA customers. This is great news for millions of customers who have remained loyal to these smaller operators. But some consumers are wary about buying …

As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the East Coast, cell phone subscribers from North Carolina to Maine are wondering how well their cell phone service will hold up during what’s expected to be a long, wet, and windy weekend. The category 3 hurricane, which was still over the Bahamas on Thursday afternoon, is expected to make landfall in North Carolina sometime …

The digital wallet wars have begun. And credit card giant Visa and search behemoth Google are likely to be among the first to face off in the market as they each try to convince consumers to ditch their real wallets for ones that store credit cards and other information on their cell phones. Visa In May, Visa and Google announced …

Some residents near Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., are getting the first taste of Google’s 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service. The service has been live in the market for about a month, and it will continue to be rolled out to homes in the community, where mostly Stanford professors and faculty live. The service is free to residents for the first …

A rare East Coast earthquake that shook people from North Carolina to Boston today prompted heavy call volume that jammed cell phone networks throughout the region. Instead of calling, many residents eager to share their experiences and get in touch with loved ones and friends reached out sites like Twitter and Facebook. The quake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale …

HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou says his company is sticking with Google, despite the fact that the company plans to acquire one of HTC’s mobile-phone competitors. HTC CEO Peter Chou Stephen Shankland/CNET In an interview today with The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Chou downplayed the possibility that HTC would try to develop its own operating system in lieu of …

Hewlett-Packard has turned out the lights on its WebOS smartphones and new tablet, the TouchPad, so what should you do if you’ve already got one of these products? Todd Bradley announces that WebOS will be designed to run on desktop and laptop PCs. James Martin/CNET That’s a good question. Here are a few (somewhat humorous) suggestions from CNET: Put them …

Smartphone subscribers are hungry for data, and their appetites are growing, according to a study. Validas, a company that analyzes cell phone bills for consumers, looked at data over the past year, from July to June, and saw a dramatic increase in mobile data usage for smartphone subscribers at every major carrier except T-Mobile USA. Verizon Wireless smartphone users led …

AT&T is striking back at the law firm Bursor & Fisher, which is trying to block AT&T’s $39 billion merger with T-Mobile USA, according to a report from Reuters. Last week, AT&T reportedly filed eight lawsuits in eight different federal court jurisdictions against Bursor & Fisher and a second plaintiffs’ firm, Faruqi & Faruqi, claiming that the firms have been …

Skype’s Wi-Fi access app is coming to Apple iOS devices. The company said Wednesday that its Skype Wi-Fi app, formerly called Skype Access, will soon be a free app in the Apple Store, allowing iPhone, iPod Touch (running iOS 4.1 and above) and iPad users to connect to over 1 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world via their existing Skype …