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China smartphone shipments grew 58% sequentially to reach a record 24 million units in Q3 2011, overtaking the United States for the first time ever to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume. (StrategyAnalytics)

The concept of unified communications may still be getting a lot of headlines, but it continues to face a headwind in SMB adoption in North America, new research suggests. (FierceEnterprise)

The threat of malware on Google’s Android platform continued to grow in the third quarter, with the amount of malware targeted at Android devices spiking 37 percent from the second quarter, according to a new report from security firm McAfee. (FierceWireless)

Clearwire is weighing whether to skip a $237 million debt payment due Dec. 1 as it tries to conserve its cash, according to Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch.
(FierceWireless)

Not all Apple iPhone 4S smartphones are created equally, according to a new report from Metrico Wireless. (FierceWireless)

AT&T Mobility will unveil a new unit focused on connected wireless devices in the home security, healthcare and energy markets dubbed “Digital Life Services,” according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (FierceWireless)

SAN FRANCISCO–Will the nation’s wireless operators run out of spectrum within the next two years? LightSquared Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja told the audience at the Open Mobile Summit here that at current growth rates U.S. wireless providers are on track to run out of network capacity and spectrum in the next two to three years.  (FierceWireless)

Nextdoor, which opens to the public today, hopes to connect local communities through small private social networks where their identities are carefully verified. (AllThingsD)

In September of last year a Pennsylvania resident gave us of a fixed residential LTE trial Verizon has secretly been conducting with DirecTV, providing speeds (albeit on a test network) of 27 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream. A few months after that a DirecTV executive accidentally confirmed the trials at an investor conference in New York, saying a residential LTE offering for rural users was several years out. We’d never seen Verizon confirm these trials until last week on the company’s earnings call, when Verizon CFO Fran Shammo responded to a question about LTE.  (DSLReports)

CHICAGO–Sprint Nextel will deploy LTE-Advanced technology on its 800 MHz spectrum by the first half of 2013, a key executive said.  (FierceWireless)