Virgin Mobile USA Q2 profit jumped 296 percent from last year to $21.8 million, as premium handset sales grew strongly. Sales of phones priced over $50 jumped to 25 percent of sales from 15 percent in the previous quarter. Virgin Mobile sa...

Does the company you work for pay your cellphone contract? If it does, the IRS wants you to pay tax on it for being what it calls a "fringe benefit." According to the WSJ.com, the rule in which company cellphones are considered a taxable be...

Sprint Nextel wants some attention for how well the Samsung Instinct is selling, and with a lot of hype and media attention going to the Apple iPhone, you can’t blame them.

Some super good mobile phone deals will kick off on Black Friday as people flood stores and websites the day after Thanksgiving. The sales are just a continuation of a trend toward cheaper mobile phone prices. According to The NPD Group, the overall...

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The European Commission is not taking any action against Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and has stopped investigating the chipmaker after four looking into the company’s pricing policies for four years, the WSJ reports. The commission said it dropped the case...

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a new mobile ad product that combines mobile search and display. Called “Microsoft Mobile Marketplaces,” it should not be confused with Microsoft’s “Windows Marketplace for Mobile,” which is its new app store on...

If Playfish can sell for $275 million and Zynga can attract big funding on reports of bigger revenue, there’s clearly life in the virtual goods game. So six Liverpool developers are hoping to emulate the success that pair has had in getting people to...