T-Mobile USA has hired advisers to help it sell its wireless towers in an effort to raise cash, Bloomberg reported today. T-Mobile’s network of roughly 7,000 wireless towers has been on the block before, and is seen as one of the easiest ways to generate money for the carrier’s German parent, Deutsche Telekom AG. A …

The urgency in Research In Motion CEO Thorstein Heins was palpable during the company’s first quarterly conference call, suggesting he may be the right man for this job after all. Even more so than last quarter’s mea culpa from former co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, Heins was as forthright as any RIM executive has been. It was a far …

The worst thing Google could do to its budding Android tablet business is get into it. But that appears to be what the Internet search titan is up to. The latest report from Digitimes has Google partnering with Asus to create a low-cost tablet to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. If Google wanted to assuage its Android partners that it …

Wall Street expected Research In Motion to report weak results, and the beleaguered smartphone vendor didn’t disappoint. The Canadian company today reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share, reversing a year-earlier profit of $934 million, or $1.74 a share. Excluding one-time items, the company reported an adjusted profit of $418 million, or 80 cents …

AT&T and Nokia are bringing out the big guns when they launch the Lumia 900 next month. “At all levels, this is a notch above anything we’ve ever done,” AT&T device head Jeff Bradley said in an interview with CNET, noting that includes the launch of the iPhone. The resources behind this campaign and the attention given underscore the importance …

Can your lock screen act as a virtual billboard of sorts? Conduit has designed a lock screen that allows businesses to place their own widgets front and center on the phone. Conduit That’s what one company is banking on with a new product it plans to unveil in the coming weeks. Web and mobile software company Conduit has over the …

Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone will hit AT&T’s store shelves on April 8, a move Nokia hopes will usher a return to the U.S. in a big way. The phone will sell for $99.99 with a two-year contract, AT&T told CNET. It is one of the most affordable flagship products AT&T has ever sold. There’s a lot at stake with this …

commentary Nokia got its wish and has its best shot to break back into the U.S. market. So here’s some friendly advice to a company that likely won’t get another opportunity as good as this: don’t blow it. Not to pile on with more pressure, but the fate of Nokia’s future, and possibly that of Windows Phone and Microsoft’s ability …

People love prizes. And that’s the core belief animating a start up called SherLabs. Through a product called TapFame, the company offers game developers the ability to drop an instant sweepstakes or leaderboard contest into their apps, which presumably would drive interest and downloads. It’s a unique take on the issue of app discovery, which I’ve written a lot about …

Research in Motion ceding its smartphone title to Apple in Canada may be seen as a minor hiccup after the struggling RIM posts its fiscal fourth-quarter results next Thursday. Expectations for RIM this period are decidedly low, with a product line sustained by heavy discounts and the company lacking any new smartphones. It’ll mark the first quarterly report for new …