Apple released the iPhone 4 with a potentially critical flaw. If you hold the iPhone a certain way, the device will lose it’s signal, as the antennas are placed on the left and right side of the device. The flaw is especially bothersome for left-handed users. Apple’s response will not go in the textbooks for [...]

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Google has made strides to move many of the Android users over to the Android 2.0 environment. Google recently released statistics that show that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that connected to the Android marketplace in the past two weeks of early June 2010 were running Android mobile OS 2.0 or higher. There has [...]

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The race for the ultimate iPhone Twitter app did not slow down after Twitter.com purchased and relaunched Tweetie. No, no, no… now there is a Hello Kitty iPhone Twitter client in the marketplace. This absolute game changer is probably making Tweetie managers cry at their desks. The app was developed by Digital Garage–makers of the [...]

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The Federal Trade Commission approved the Google AdMob deal, saying that the deal “is unlikely to harm competition in the emerging market for mobile advertising networks.” AdMob has seen great success in advertising for the iPhone platform. Yet, even with the $750 million dollar deal to buy AdMob, Google will not have a confident guaranty [...]

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During Capital Market Day, Nokia unveiled plans to overhaul the user interface design for Symbian smart phone. The chief executive of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, stated “Symbian OS is not the problem, the user interface is.” The new user interface will show up in phones in 2010. The goal of the new design will be to [...]

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The European Commission stated that it will pursue an investigation of the safety of Apple iPhones and iPods after reports that a couple devices had exploded. Apple was said to be cooperating with the investigation and the the consumer protection commission. The reports of the exploded iPhones and iPod came from both France and Britain. [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia, once fierce enemies in the mobile industry, have decided to team up–placing Microsoft Office software on Nokia cellphones. As phones are increasingly used to do things that once only computers would do, Microsoft is charging into the mobile landscape seeking to fend off the threat from Google. Google has posed a threat [...]

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After posting a 21% decline in quarterly profit, Verizon stated that it would be cutting another 8,000 jobs in order to cutback spending. It was mentioned that there has been a decline in the number of corporate cellphones and laptop data cards, as so many people have been laid off. Traditional voice services, its landline [...]

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A Foxconn employee, 25 year-old Sun Danyong, allegedly committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. After the employee could not locate one of sixteen prototypes entrusted to his possession, a Foxconn manager ordered an immediate search and interrogation of that employee. Thursday at 3 AM, the employee jumped from his apartment window and ended his [...]

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