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As a Sprint corporate customer I'm referred to as "preferred," which basically translates to "preferred because I give them increasing amounts of money." Anyway, it gets me a phone upgrade annually, rather than the non-preferred biannual deal. The only problem with an annually replaced gadget is y...
London's burning, and it may lead to a clampdown on social media in the UK. UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday suggested censoring social media in response to the violence. Mobs reportedly communicating in part through BlackBerry Messenger, and later social media sites, wreaked havoc throug...
Sprint on Friday unveiled the Samsung Conquer 4G, an Android smartphone that will be available for purchase Aug. 21. The Conquer 4G is the first 4G smartphone from Sprint launched at less than $100. It has a 1 GHz processor, front and rear cameras, runs Android 2.3, and comes with Sprint ID widgets,...
Research In Motion announced five new smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 7 operating system on Wednesday. AT&T, Sprint and U.S. Cellular will all get new devices that maintain some of the feel of earlier products while offering functionality competitive with the leading smartphones on the m...
Motorola's latest high-end Android smartphone, the Photon, has hit the shelves at Sprint stores for $200 and a two-year contract. Online customers had a head start -- the Photon was available at Sprint's website days ahead of its brick-and-mortar arrival. The Photon runs on Android 2.3 -- Gingerbrea...
Dilbert gets Windows Phone 7, the US Gets Three Stooges The two things I found particularly interesting last week were the continued focus on the U.S. government's inability to live within its means and Scott Adams, the father of Dilbert, accepting the Windows Phone 7 challenge. The first continue...
Mango, the largest update yet to Microsoft's still-young Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, was released to manufacturers Tuesday in what the software company called an "important milestone" in its fight to gain some ground in the competitive smartphone marketplace. The update was first shown off in May and...
Occluded by the opposition and battered by poor financial results, Research In Motion on Friday made announcements aimed at shoring up its sagging fortunes. The mobile device maker announced it has received FIPS 140-2 certification from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technolog...
Last week, Facebook launched its video chat. Saying this was going to be an "awesome" announcement and then showcasing basic video chat and group text chat was, and I'm being kind, disappointing. Still, Facebook does have something amazing here -- I just don't think it's worked out yet. But I do thi...
Verizon on Thursday marched out its latest Android smartphone, the Droid 3 from Motorola. The release marks the latest in a line of phones often credited with helping to revive Motorola's strength in cellphones and giving Verizon a heavy-hitting rival to AT&T's iPhone -- before Verizon started c...
The first Nokia smartphone to sport Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile OS is nicknamed the "Sea Ray," according to video recorded at a Nokia press conference. The device looks very much like the N9, the MeeGo-based smartphone Nokia revealed earlier this week. Perhaps the strangest thing about the Se...
Sony Ericsson announced two new Android smartphones Wednesday: the Xperia Ray and the Xperia Active. Both run Android 2.3, aka "Gingerbread," and use the Mobile Bravia Engine. They will both be available in select markets worldwide in the third quarter, Sony Ericsson said. The Ray appears to be focu...
Nokia has unveiled the first smartphone to run the MeeGo operating system: the Nokia N9. This new handset is all screen -- it has no home button. Its 3.9-inch Amoled screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass, and the body was precision-machined from a single piece of polycarbonate. However,...
Enterprises and other large organizations have already begun riding the wave of the consumerization of IT, and the voice of the mobile device user is being heard through the land. Even the U.S. federal government is reportedly letting staff bring in their own mobile devices to use at work, leading t...
Microsoft has rolled out app development tools for Mango, the Windows Phone 7 update about which the company released details earlier this week. Registered developers can download the Mango Beta Windows Phone Developer Tools from AppHub, Casey McGee, marketing manager for Windows Phone, told TechNew...
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