SMARTPHONE

France will raise at least 2.5 billion euros ($3.6 billion) auctioning next-generation wireless frequencies used to deliver data for apps on tablet computers and smartphones, a lucrative and fast-growing market.

AT&T Inc plans to launch a wireless security service for consumers next year to help combat a big rise in cyber attacks on mobile devices, a top executive said.

Credit Suisse have addressed five recurring concerns troubling the investors of Apple.

China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom) and Research in Motion (RIM), the perpetual developer of the BlackBerry smartphone, has announced plans to start BlackBerry services for small commercial organizations in China, a report in RIM website said. The companies will be launching the Blackberry Bold 9650 smartphone

There is no word as yet on when Sony's PlayStation Network will be back online. Surprisingly, rumor mills too are silent about Sony's next move. There is talk however that fans experiencing withdrawal symptoms could look at alternatives. That means a hardware sale windfall for Xbox and Wii.

The number of malware that aim the Android mobile operating system has gone up by 400 per cent since summer of last year, according to a report by Juniper Networks.

Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo Inc and U.S. social networking service provider Twitter Inc will jointly develop a location-based alerting service for smartphone users based on tweets, the Nikkei business daily said.

Ericsson, the world's biggest mobile network equipment maker, gave a cautious outlook on Thursday which sent its shares lower even though the firm stuck to sales and profit growth targets for the next three years.

While many are heralding the entry of Chromebooks as the next game changer cynics have a question or two about Google's strategy behind its light-weight, browser-based Chrome OS.

The new HP Veer 4G and Samsung Infuse 4G seems to be lying in two corners, one being the smallest yet a cute smartphone while the other seems to define the width of a smartphone. Both these smartphones differ from the standard size offered in the market today.

Google's announcement that it is entering the home automation segment and that it has started building hardware accessories that work on Android devices, has spawned key questions.

On Tuesday Microsoft announced details of a $8.5 billion acquisition of online communications company Skype.

A gamut of releases at Google I/O conference shows that Google is attempting on one hand to plug existing loopholes in the Android platform, is adding new cloud-services to pre-empt Apple and is outlining its future vision in that it wants Android to become a multi-device OS.

Google decided to ratchet up excitement around the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which runs its tablet specific OS Android 3.0, by giving it for free to 5,000 attendees at the Google I/O conference and incurring about $499 per piece or $2.5 million in total.

On Tuesday Microsoft announced details of a $8.5 billion acquisition of online communications company Skype, but the move, conjuring up past initiatives, are leaving analysts bracing for the worse.

Jefferies & Co. believes the Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement of Android Ice Cream Sandwich is positive for Android handset original equipment manufacturers like Motorola Mobility, Samsung, and LG.

Google says the future version of Android will be more all devices.

Microsoft brings aboard Skype for $8.5 billion. With Skype, Microsoft is getting an established player in the increasingly competitive voice and video calling market. Skype has 170 million connected users and logged over 207 billion minutes of voice and video conversations in 2010.

Search-giant Google updated its Goggles app on Monday to include better note-taking capabilities, search history, and better business card recognition as machine-vision becomes more useful.

Zynga Inc is hiring two key developers of cocos2d, a popular game engine that powers top grossing iPhone apps such as Tap Pet Hotel and Tap Zoo in a move that will help the social games company boost its presence on smartphone and tablets.

Zynga Inc is acquiring two key developers of cocos2d, a popular game engine that powers top grossing iPhone apps such as Tap Pet Hotel, and Tap Zoo, in a move that will help the social games company boost its presence on smartphone and tablets.