Back in 2007 when the Apple iPhone debuted, Google and Apple were happily working together in the mapping services market. The iPhone used Google Maps technology to provide users with the location of businesses and other details while Apple pushed a lot of traffic through Google servers and to Google search. As the iPhone became more and more popul... read entire news →

TOKYO, June 4, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced HTC Corporation (HTC) will join the PlayStation&xA0; By collaborating with HTC, a global designer of smartphones and the world's first company to launch Android-powered devices, SCE aims to deliver the PlayStation&xAE;Suite, SCE Worldwide Studios is deve... read entire news →

The Galaxy S III has five carriers, two colors, and two memory sizes, but only one design. (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) Given all the attention that the Samsung Galaxy S III is garnering today, it's easy to overlook some of the finer points. One detail that has been lost in the shuffle could have long-lasting Android implications. It's not the ... read entire news →

Samsung Galaxy S III is a looker Samsung Electronics' latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, will arrive at Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA on June 21. At Sprint, the highly anticipated smartphone will cost $199.99 for the 16GB version, and $249.99 for the 32GB version. AT&T will sell also sell a 16GB version for $199.99 but will pair it wi... read entire news →

IDG News Service - The Ubuntu operating system for smartphones is getting closer to release, with Canonical officials hinting the release will possibly come as early as later this year or sometime next year. Canonical will make announcements on the Ubuntu OS for smartphones later this year, said John Barnard, global marketing manager at Canonical,... read entire news →

Computerworld - Adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in enterprises has been "severely limited" by the complexities of managing the wide variety of devices and versions of the operating system, according to research firm Gartner. A Gartner evaluation of 20 mobile device management (MDM) vendors said Google had "weaker management support" fo... read entire news →

Leap Wireless, Sprint to Offer Pre-paid No-contract iPhone 4 and 4S ( Page 1 of 2 )Its taken nearly five years, but it looks like the iPhone will soon be running on nearly every segment of the U.S. wireless telephone network, including smaller regional carriers and prepaid cell phone services. It looks like even T-Mobile will soon be ready to carr... read entire news →

The hacked and completely fan-made Android-based ROM known as CyanogenMod has reached a massive 2 million installs this week, reminding us that it is far and away the most successful Android 3rd party system of all time. This update comes only a few months after CyanogenMod reached 1 million installs, the Google mobile OS-based hack growing now as ... read entire news →