Google Inc. is developing a new search service for cellphones to help consumers find and purchase mobile content such as ringtones and games, as the Internet company pushes deeper into the wireless sector, people familiar with the matter say.
Google Inc said on Friday it would take part in a major auction of wireless spectrum airwaves, meeting a minimum required bid of $4.6 billion, if U.S. regulators added a sale condition that Google said would promote an open wireless market.
Sprint Nextel Corp. said it would include a range of Google Inc.'s Web and communications applications on its coming "WiMax" mobile devices, a boost for Sprint as it rolls out the new technology and a breakthrough for Google in the U.S. wireless
Google Inc. is in advanced talks with two top U.S. cellphone operators, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., about offering handsets tailored to its new mobile phone operating system
AT&T wireless data customers will be able to pull up the latest news, business, politics, sports and entertainment articles through the New York Times' mobile site at no extra charge.
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