With over 100,000 iPhone apps available, it's no surprise that some of them help shoppers at the malls.
November 25, 2009
Trust Digital offers mobile enterprise management software that covers the full smartphone market, including Apple iPhone.
November 25, 2009
The Amazon Kindle can now be automatically updated, allowing users to read PDF files in their native format or be converted to the Kindle format.
November 24, 2009
eBay Deals, launching Tuesday, directs users to search, bid and pay for select holiday items like computers and electronics.
November 24, 2009
Google releases Maps Navigation for older Android-powered devices.
November 24, 2009
New iPhone ads poke gentle fun at Verizon and Motorola Droid.
November 24, 2009
The ending of the exclusive iPhone carrier contract in France last April, and a strong first-day sales by Orange in the U.K. after exclusivity ended there, could foretell changes in the U.S. market if AT&T loses exclusivity as expected.
November 23, 2009
Apple's iPhone now accounts for over half of the mobile ads served by smartphones worldwide and in the U.S., with Android a strong second in the U.S., according to a new report from AdMob.
November 23, 2009
After clearing the last regulatory hurdle, the iPhone will be available in South Korea later this month.
November 23, 2009
Peer-to-peer music streaming software already supports Android devices and Apple's iPhone
November 23, 2009
After suffering a setback in its lawsuit against Verizon, AT&T has responded to its competitor with a new 3G wireless advertisement featuring actor Luke Wilson.
November 19, 2009
Good grief, could we just get an Apple tablet already? Based on the constantly shifting parameters of this device, its future looks dubious.
November 19, 2009
Rumors of an "absolutely confirmed" Google Phone surface.
November 18, 2009
Reports surface that Nokia marketing execs may have let the cat out of the bag.
November 18, 2009
Should Asustek go through with the rumored acquisition of Toshiba's mobile PC business, the result would be a realignment of the business as significant as that of Acer's acquisition of Texas Instrument's Travelmate line and Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's ThinkPad line.
November 18, 2009
What the AT&T vs. Verizon battle boils down to is 3G coverage: who has it and who doesn't.
November 18, 2009
Carrier back on the horse following service outages and Sidekick snafus.
November 17, 2009
Palm is launching new devices to compete against heavyweight Apple's iPhone and up-and-comers like Motorola's Droid. But is it too little, too late?
November 16, 2009
Samsung said its new Galaxy Spica smartphone, a follow-on to Samsung's Moment, is the first Android-powered smartphone to support DivX for watching video.
November 16, 2009
Android sounds fun, but tell us more about Mini 3, Dell.
November 13, 2009
Shares of Palm surged to recent highs, in part on acquisition rumors, and also due to the planned Sunday rollout of its new Pixi smart phone.
November 13, 2009
If Dell's going to make a smartphone move, it might as well do so with the hottest of the season's mobile OSes.
November 13, 2009
Pixi is the smaller, cheaper version of the Palm Pre, which has been encouraging but not yet a smash hit for Palm.
November 12, 2009
Now that the Amazon Kindle is available on PCs and laptops, it's time to look at how it can be a platform on which a whole new generation of publishing services can be built.
November 11, 2009
Almost from the initial release of Research In Motion's first touch-screen BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Storm, rumor mills were buzzing with word that the company was already hard at work on the next generation of the device. Since then, both fans and foes alike have been picking away at the Storm, complaining about what it could have and should have been.
November 11, 2009
Samsung enters the fray against its key mobile competitors with plans to open its first mobile application development platform and provide software developer kits (SDKs) next month at an event in London.
November 10, 2009
Motorola gets a much needed shot in the arm from Droid sales.
November 10, 2009
Amazon.com has made available a beta version of its Kindle for PC software and, in so doing, has taken the idea of portable data to new heights.
November 10, 2009
Google's acquisition of AdMob will stifle competition in the healthy mobile advertising display market.
November 09, 2009
Company recalls 14 million faulty phone chargers that pose a risk of electric shock to consumers.
November 09, 2009
First ever iPhone worm displays image of Rick Astley on wallpaper.
November 09, 2009
Google wants a bigger slice of the mobile advertising display ad market by buying AdMob.
November 09, 2009
AT&T's iPhone exclusivity may be coming to an end, with Qualcomm reportedly offering a chip that could bring the smartphone to Verizon's network next year.
November 09, 2009
Verizon is hoping to put coal in Apple and AT&T's Christmas stockings with an ad campaign that classifies the Apple iPhone as a misfit toy.
November 09, 2009
Dexrex Gear's new enterprise-targeted archiving tool stores real-time messages to help companies meet compliance requirements.
November 06, 2009
Apple is now facing the toughest competition to date against its iPhone with today's launch of Motorola's Droid.
November 06, 2009
RIM hasn't owned the headlines lately, but BlackBerry shipments remain strong and growing, according to IDC.
November 06, 2009
The most important thing you need to know about Motorola's Droid is this: After about five minutes of use, it's no longer a big deal that it's based on Google's Android 2.0 operating system. The thing just works, works well and provides its money's worth of functionality and ease of use.
November 06, 2009
Motorola and Verizon on Friday make available to the public the Droid: the touch-screen, Android 2.0-based smartphone that is perhaps the most aggressively feature-rich phone on the market today based on the Google-driven mobile OS.
November 06, 2009
Google boss Eric Schmidt recently suggested Android adoption is 'about to explode.' Here are 10 hot smartphones running on the white-hot Android platform, including price, availability and U.S carriers, that might suggest he's right.
November 05, 2009
The headlines Friday will focus on Motorola's Droid smartphone, but the fine print is all about Google's march to communications supremacy.
November 05, 2009
In only 16 months, Apple's App Store has far surpassed any and all competitors for the number, breadth and depth of smartphone applications.
November 05, 2009
The build-up to the Droid launch has seen Motorola and Verizon steal a page from the Apple product launch playbook.
November 05, 2009
Adobe Systems is getting impatient with Apple's lack of movement toward supporting Flash on the iPhone, and it's telling visitors to its Web site to direct their questions on the issue to Apple.
November 04, 2009
New York's ban on texting while driving is now in effect, not leaving a lot you can do with your mobile device while you're behind the wheel of a car.
November 04, 2009
Tuesday outage is second for T-Mobile in past two months, following Sidekick disaster.
November 04, 2009
HD2 is a Windows Mobile unit, now shipping in Europe and Taiwan.
November 04, 2009
T-Mobile subscribers around the country found themselves unable to make phone calls or use data services Tuesday due to a major service outage.
November 03, 2009
AT&T alleges Verizon ads make false claims about 3G network coverage and have caused 'incalculable market share' loss.
November 03, 2009
New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.
November 03, 2009
Sprint's broadband plan comes with 5 GB of data for $60 a month.
November 03, 2009
Peek Tuesday rolled out TwitterPeek, a device built exclusively to read and post messages to the Twitter microblogging service.
November 03, 2009
Sony Ericsson adds to this fall's bumper crop of new Android handsets.
November 03, 2009
The China Unicom-carried iPhone is missing Wi-Fi and is expensive.
November 03, 2009
Palm's smartphone is the odd phone out as Apple and Motorola gear up to do battle.
November 02, 2009
The Creative Zii MediaBook, which was shown for the first time at Creative's annual general meeting, could be targeted at e-books, business, education and social networking users.
November 02, 2009
Apple fights off 'Hackintoshes' by eliminating Atom support in the next Snow Leopard update -- but what does that mean for an Apple netbook?
November 02, 2009
iPhone book-related apps and potential Apple tablet have Apple in the catbird seat for e-reading.
November 02, 2009
Motorola's Google Android 2.0 smartphone will launch in select European markets as Milestone.
November 02, 2009