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T-Mobile to buy US wireless 4G spectrum for $308 million

The additional spectrum will be used for 4G in the Mississippi Valley region, T-Mobile said

Update: BlackBerry suffers $84M loss on disappointing Q1 smartphone sales

Company shipped 6.8 million smartphones -- below analyst expectations -- and didn't break out sales figures for its new BlackBerry 10 phones

IBM layoffs pass 3,000, says labor group

Hardest hit units in the latest layoffs were IBM's Systems and Technology Group, and its software operation

The mobile commerce revolution will be messy

It's a Wild West of competing apps and services for both payments and shopping tools

Startup reality check: When the IPO comes, innovation goes

Rivers of wealth flowing from tech IPOs don't lead to more innovation but instead slow it

AirWatch CEO: Enterprises are now embracing their own mobile apps

CEO John Marshall outlines challenges and opportunities for the mobile device management vendor

Advice from an IT dad: Don't even consider a career in IT

Would you recommend that your kid go into IT? In reply to that time-honored question, one InfoWorld reader offers a brutally frank answer

Foxconn to speed up 'robot army' deployment

Foxconn already has 20,000 robots in its factories and is looking at the U.S. and Indonesia for expansion

Microsoft Build: No Moscone mojo on Apple's and Google's turf

Other than a Bing surprise, the attempt to tweak major rivals where they fete programmers falls flat as Microsoft unveils little of consequence to Windows developers

FTC advises Google, Yahoo, others to be clearer in labeling paid search results

Federal Trade Commission lays out a set of recommendations to better distinguish natural search results from paid search results

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