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Despite Steve Ballmer’s apparent disdain for the Googly OS, he must love it really. (Engadget)

Verizon Wireless continued to see strong growth in demand for its LTE devices and network in the third quarter, though the company reported a slight decline in Apple iPhone activations (FierceWireless)

Sprint Nextel notified customers that starting in November it will no longer offer mobile broadband plans with unlimited access to Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network, eliminating one aspect of Sprint’s market differentiation. (FierceWireless)

Videoconferencing, once so expensive that only enterprise customers could afford it, is seeing a change in the market that, some day soon, will make it as commonplace as the smartphone. (FierceEnterprise)

At a press event today Verizon Wireless launched the LTE-capable Motorola Mobility Droid Razr, updating the popular device from 2004 to the smartphone age by having it run on Android platform.(FierceWireless)

Data traffic on U.S. wireless networks surged 111 percent year-over-year and the number of active smartphones grew from 61.2 million to 95.8 million, a 67 percent increase over the prior year, according to the trade group CTIA. (FierceWireless)

Last year’s iPhone 4 launch brought more than 600,000 pre-orders within the first 24 hours. This year, that number nearly doubled, topping one million within one day of the device’s pre-order availability through AT&T,Sprint and Verizon. (engadget)

Qwikster, we never knew ya: Netflix has killed its plans to turn its DVD service into a separate business.  (AllThingsD)

Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. (CNN)

More evidence that the competition is catching up to the iPhone.  (engadget)