Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper, the former vice president of Motorola who helped create the first working cellphone, has been saying for some time that technology is the solution to dealing with the ever-rising demand for wireless data capacity. Read More

Almost everybody has a mobile phone right now. Read More

Some of the most valuable real estate out there is nothing you could build a house or a hotel on. Read More

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint say they need more radio spectrum, the government-rationed slices of radio waves that carry phone calls and wireless data. Read More

AT&T ( T ), Verizon ( VZ ), T-Mobile ( DT ) and Sprint ( S ) -- are to be believed, soaring cell phone bills could be in our future -- if their requests aren't met. Read More

One can sit and watch the world go by and just when you were feeling good about things something will catch you attention and raise your hackles. Read More

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint say they need more radio spectrum, the government-rationed slices of radio waves that carry phone calls and wireless data. Read More

Wireless carriers say they are running out of spectrum to accommodate consumers' growing hunger for mobile data, but some scientists and engineers say the so-called spectrum shortage is just a way for the companies to protect themselves from competitors, reports Brian X. Chen on Wednesday in The New York Times. Read More

Martin walked out into the streets of New York, carrying with him a small electronic box of tricks. Read More