First, there was the Macintosh. Then it was the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad. Next up in Apple’s arsenal: The lawyers. No doubt, when Apple announced Tuesday that it was suing HTC for allegedly infringing on its patents, only one company may have been named, but Jobs & Co. were issuing a legal …

China’s second largest mobile phone company will be selling Google Android phones after all, according to a report from Reuters. China Unicom’s chairman Chang Xiaobing told Reuters Wednesday, on the sidelines of a conference in Beijing, that the carrier “recognizes that Android is a mainstream system.” And he told the news service that the company “will definitely use Google’s Android …

Apple is suing phone maker HTC and has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, alleging that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, …

Virgin Media plans to roll out a broadband service that tops out at 100 megabits per second to residential customers by the end of the year. The company said Thursday that it will use its fiber-based network to deliver the new high speeds. Virgin Media, which provides broadband, TV, phone and/or mobile phone service to roughly 4.1 million homes across …

Details of the Federal Communications Commission’s much anticipated National Broadband Plan are trickling out as the deadline for the report quickly approaches. But exactly who will pay for all these bold plans hasn’t yet been discussed. The report, which was mandated as part of last year’s economic stimulus bill, will provide a blueprint for policy makers and lawmakers to provide …

T-Mobile USA gained ground in signing up new subscribers during the fourth quarter, but much of the surge came from its prepaid business. T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom reported earnings on Thursday. The U.S. carrier, the smallest of the big four nationwide carriers, said it added a total of 371,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter. This is an …

U.S. mobile operators, , in letters sent to the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week, defended their use of early termination fees and explained how they are informing consumers about their policies. In January, the FCC asked each of the four major wireless carriers, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA, along with Google to detail how they inform …

Clearwire saw a huge uptick in 4G wireless subscribers in the fourth quarter, which helped the company narrow its losses. The company, which is building a nationwide 4G wireless network, added 87,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter, it reported Wednesday. This is up from the 5,000 it signed up in the fourth quarter of 2008. Clearwire ended the year …

The city of Wilmington, N.C., and the surrounding county of New Hanover, N.C., are among the first communities to test wireless applications using TV white space technology. The city and county have partnered with TV Band Service and Spectrum Bridge to launch a new experimental network that uses white space spectrum to provide wireless connectivity to surveillance cameras and environmental …

Affordability is one of the main reasons why 93 million Americans do not have broadband at home, a recent Federal Communications Commission survey found. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans to discuss the findings during a speech at the Brookings Institute on Tuesday. Nearly one-third of the U.S. population, or about 93 million Americans, do not have broadband Internet access at …