Verizon Wireless will deliver a tasty treat to many smartphone and tablet customers this year - Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

It’s a frozen snack that many in the Android community have been eager to try since ICS launched in December 2011 on the Galaxy™ Nexus™ by Samsung. The redesigned user interface includes many cool enhancements, including upgraded multitasking capabilities, notifications and Web browsing.

Wondering if your device will receive Ice Cream Sandwich? Here’s a list of Veriz

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history mean Google Inc. just needs to clear a few more regulatory hurdles before it can take control of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and expand into manufacturing phones, tablet computers and possibly other consumer devices for the first time.

Google is counting on Motorola Mobility's more than 17,000 patents – a crucial weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals to gain more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

The Justice Department ended a six-month review of the deal after concluding it won't stifle competition in the mobile device market. European regulators reached the same conclusion.

In granting its approval, though, the European Union raised<

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc. mobile-phone venture is considering a deal with AT&T Inc. to buy network capacity from the carrier, two people with knowledge of the talks said.

The initiative is preliminary and may not result in a deal, said the people, who declined to be identified because the plan isn’t public.

A U.S. court rejected Sprint Nextel Corp.'s challenge of a Federal Communications Commission decision that it must give up some wireless airwaves by June 26 to reduce interference with public-safety networks.

Sprint must stop using the frequencies as part of a spectrum swap with about 900 public-safety agencies, regardless of whether all the agencies are ready to give Sprint their airwaves by then, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said today.

In today’s advanced technology world, most people are using cell phones regularly. Earlier the cell phones were restricted to the affluent class or to businessmen. But now with further improvements many companies have come up with cell phones that have affordable monthly plans.