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Sprint has announced that it has opened up wholesale aircard offerings for its virtual operator and wholesale partners following the success of its Broadband2Go offering currently available on Virgin Mobile via the Mobile Broadband on Demand service powered by turnkey service management solutions provider TeleSpree.
The service will allow wholesale partners and virtual operators on the [...]

Opera has announced 1.0 versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, effectively graduating them from Beta status.
Opera Mini 5 is available as a 1.0 release for Java ME based devices such as the BlackBerry and many featurephones, while remaining in beta for Android and Windows Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 1.0 is also now [...]

Like Hulu, but sometimes wish you could save stuff for offline viewing? Enter StreamTransport, a new Windows-only stream ripper that promises to allow for downloading videos off of the ever popular service along with other video portals.  When running, the application automatically captures the stream URL for downloading, with no interaction needed in its [...]

T-Mobile USA has announced that its first HSPA+ laptop modem in the webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick will be available on Sunday, March 14 for $100 after $50 rebate with new 2 year agreement in Philadelphia area T-Mobile stores, as its nascent HSPA+ network is currently only available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
T-Mobile has also announced new [...]

Opera has announced the availability of the latest beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android devices.
The updated beta features Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and bookmark sync as well as support for virtual keyboards and a download/password manager. The only exception is the lack of support for multitouch gestures.
The download is available here.

Virgin Mobile has updated its Broadband2Go pricing and data allotment to place it inline with offerings from major carriers based on customer feedback. The $40 plan now includes 1GB of data access for 1 month, while the $60 plan now includes 5GB of data access for the same 1 month timeframe without a contract [...]

Sprint has announced another round of WiMax rollouts planned for this year, which include major markets and more cities.
The new markets slated for rollout this year include Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C along with other confirmed markets and cities that Sprint refused to disclose at this time.
Sprint [...]

Comcast, soon to be known as Xfinity, is now offering High-Speed Internet subscribers online backup storage via partnership with Mozy, starting with 2GB of free storage for all customers.
The caveat to the storage options is that Comcast/Xfinity is tying the amount of storage to the amount transferred within the overall monthly bandwidth cap, which means [...]

Verizon Wireless has confirmed that the carrier is testing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem network overlay and backend enhancement on its current 3G network. The enhancement allows voice calls to be carried as data calls instead of being sent over the circuit-switched voice network
The subsystem is being selected as the voice call carrier for its [...]

Chipset solutions developer and manufacturer Beceem has announced that it is currently developing a combination WiMax/LTE chipset for integration into future devices.
To that end, the manufacturer is pairing up with Motorola in order to integrate its BCS500 dual-mode chipset into Motorola’s existing WiMax device and networkinginfrastructure with the chipset currently sampling and intended [...]