The U.S. Justice Department is asking for more information as it takes a deep dive into its investigation of AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, Bloomberg reported today. According to two unnamed sources familiar with the situation, Bloomberg said that the Justice Department’s antitrust division also sent “civil investigative demands,” which are like …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage Tuesday morning at Research In Motion’s Blackberry World conference in Orlando, Fla. to announce a new partnership between the computing giant and RIM, several reports indicate. Starting today, Microsoft’s Bing search and maps applications will be integrated into BlackBerry phones at the operating system level, said Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg via his Twitter …

Some of the nation’s biggest wireless carriers are trying to put the kibosh on free apps that let Google Android users use their smartphones as modems without paying the carriers’ extra fee. Several blogs have reported in recent days that free Android phone tethering apps that are typically found in the Android Market are not available for Android phones on …

AT&T’s usage caps for its DSL and U-Verse broadband services start today. AT&T The blog Broadband Reports, which first broke the news of the caps in March, is reporting that starting today customers throughout the country are now subject to the caps on AT&T’s terrestrial broadband services. AT&T confirmed that the new caps have gone into effect throughout AT&T’s broadband …

AT&T is pinning its future on getting its hands on more wireless spectrum. But should regulators allow AT&T, which owns more wireless spectrum than any other wireless operator across the nation, to gobble up even more of this scarce resource? That’s the big question that the Federal Communications Commission is grappling with as it scrutinizes the planned merger between AT&T …

Sprint Nextel continued to lose valuable contract wireless subscribers in the first quarter of 2011 as it faced stiff competition from Verizon Wireless, which began selling the Apple iPhone in February. But overall it managed to add customers, mostly from its prepaid and wholesale businesses, while also improving its churn rate and narrowing losses. Sprint lost 114,000 postpaid, or contract, …

Research In Motion today lowered its profit forecast for the fiscal first quarter amid weak shipments of its BlackBerry devices, signaling that the company is feeling increasing pressure from competitors. In the quarter ending in May, RIM said it expects earnings between $1.30 and $1.37 per share. Analysts had expected RIM to report earnings of $1.48 per share. RIM also …

Apple has finally broken its silence on the iPhone tracking controversy. The company explains in an FAQ, posted on its Web site this morning, that it is not stalking its iPhone customers, but is instead trying to get more accurate location information. It also admits that there is a bug in the software that is making the iPhone store too …

T-Mobile has temporarily shut down its newly introduced voice-chatting service for Facebook users. The company launched the new VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) chat service, which it calls Bobsled, less than a week ago. The service is embedded into Facebook and allows Facebook friends to call each other through the Facebook Chat window. T-Mobile is suspending the service because the …

The summer is quickly approaching and Apple fans are asking when the new iPhone 5 will be out and what new features it will support. Since 2007, when the first iPhone hit stores, fans of the device have come to expect a new version every year in June or July. But some reports are suggesting that the device may be …