10:55 AM Government suggests snipping off file-sharers... oh boy

The open nature of Android may result in a loss of individual vendor identity at the handset level

T-Mobile Austria claims it has Europe's largest LTE trial in Innsbruck, using equipment from Huawei

12:15 PM Another kick in the teeth for the online tracking specialist

8:25 AM Nokia unveils its first 'mini laptop'

An unconfirmed report says Huawei's 29% growth projection for 2009 is still looking good

Sales could jump 22% in 2009, but economic conditions in Central Europe and data revenue worries could drag the market down over time

Sprint's 4G Now service launches in Atlanta, Portland, and Las Vegas; can Clearwire and friends make an impact before LTE arrives?

Live data connections achieved for the first time at Verizon's test sites in Boston and Seattle UPDATED 6 PM

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't block Ericsson's acquisition of Nortel's LTE and CDMA unit

The MSO wants to overturn last year's ruling that said its P2P throttling was tantamount to blocking

Ericsson is taking over

Ken Wirth takes over as 4G boss as Mary Chan leaves Alcatel-Lucent to pursue other opportunities

The wireless carrier is looking at devices beyond smartphones to generate revenues from its mobile data network

Clearwire says Huawei is one of its suppliers, along with Cisco, Ciena, DragonWave, Motorola, and Samsung UPDATED 1:45 PM

New Unstrung Insider finds that the move to LTE and other all-IP networks will finally force operators to take mobile VoIP seriously

4:30 PM The US is Ericsson's new stronghold – and the recovery hasn't really started here (yet)

Vodafone's German business puts Huawei to the test using the 'digital dividend' airwaves

But Deputy minister says RIM should have gone to the bankruptcy court if it had a problem with the proceedings

Lazaridis makes impassioned plea to keep LTE tech in Canada, says that RIM and Nortel had an LTE deal before the vendor filed for bankruptcy

Nortel says it could sell LTE patents at a later date, amongst a range of options for the wireless broadband intellectual property

The routing giant's earnings got less depressing in Q4 than they've been in a year

The Canadian House of Commons industry committee has called on Ericsson, Nortel, and RIM to attend a surprise meeting to review the wireless unit auction process

Don't expect much money from the first round of the broadband stimulus package to flow to cities like NYC

Test specialist Spirent eyes opportunity in mobile broadband LTE as challenging market conditions persist in 2009

The company will bake more enterprise-friendly features into Android, but still may have a hard time convincing companies to ditch their BlackBerry smartphones

9:10 AM FCC looks at the blocking of Google Talk, but shouldn't operators be more creative with data rather than milking the voice cash cow?

Now you can upload those vital Twitter and Facebook updates a little faster in Portland, with Clearwire doubling uplink speeds on its WiMax network