After years of fiddling with mobile phone hook-ups just to dawdle along at GSM speeds, hunting down hotspots or just making do without Net access on the road, the arrival of 3G is like manna from ...

Has Vodafone poured coals onto the fire? The battle between 3G and wi-fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, ...

3G data services are bringing desktop-like experiences to mobile laptops and voice/data smartphones. Don’t underestimate 3G data services, industry experts say. These offerings will tie mobile laptops ...

Now that 3G is becoming a viable wide-area wireless solution, is it time to kiss Wi-Fi hotspots goodbye? Not likely. Both will be around for a long time, and each has its distinct advantages and ...

> Remember hearing talk of the so-called "battle" between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for control of all wireless kind? This much-touted struggle between the wireless-PAN (WPAN) and wireless-LAN (WLAN) worlds ...

It's a sad fact of life that unlimited Internet access, particularly for smartphone users, is fading into memory. The wireless carriers are doing what they can to move their customers to capped and ...

Sprint Nextel has announced a device that allows subscribers to share their 3G/4G wireless signal with up to five Wi-Fi devices. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Of course, you can always save 3G data use by using the iPhone's Wi-Fi and keeping the e-mail "auto-check" function off. You can track your usage with a meter on the iPhone but it's difficult to say ...

As the proud owner of a 3G smartphone, you might have considered yourself a member of the leading edge of wireless services users. Then you started hearing ads and reading stories about something ...

Cellular carriers inhabit a Twilight Zone universe. For example, they offer “unlimited” data plans that are, in fact, limited and subject to “reasonable use,” meaning whatever they choose it to mean ...

Unlimited wireless data plans usually have invisible quotes around them. Although you’d be forgiven if, like Noah Webster, you thought that “unlimited” meant “not limited or restricted in terms of ...

With the iPhone 3G’s release just days away, it’s time to revisit the pressing questions relating to Apple’s next-generation phone. We still don’t know everything about this forthcoming iPhone 3G–and ...