Android

How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking to the internet in droves to complain of apparently bricked devices.

It looks as though all that whining may have finally paid off. In a tweet sent out by the @GoogleNexus twitter account, the big G announced to thunderous applause “Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) update now rolling out to Nexus S and Nexus One.”

Well here’s something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there – Twitter has today suspended the platform’s most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.

Though it had already been rumored and leaked a few weeks ago, Qualcomm Inc. confirmed this week that future Android devices powered by the Snapdragon processor would be able to run Netflix Inc.’s content service.

There’s been a lot of cool stuff shown off at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, over the last couple of days. At this year’s event we’ve seen dual-core smart phones, 3D displays, and caught peeks at the newest iterations of some promising mobile operating systems.

AUSTIN, Texas – American Bank of Texas in Marble Falls and Waggoner National Bank located in Vernon have launched First Data Corp.’s Mobile Manager mBanking for use on mobile devices …

Size may not matter, but what you have jutting out of your trouser pocket does have an impact, according to OK Cupid, the online dating site. And by that, of course, we mean your phone.

While the Internet is rife with rumor surrounding what embattled Nokia Corp. plans to do next, cross platform app store GetJar has thrown its hat in the ring with the opinion Nokia should go Android and not Windows Phone 7.

The nascent near field communication space received a much needed jolt today as Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) announced an agreement with Korean operator KT Corp. (KT) to …

NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel Corp. and Kyocera Communications Inc. announced the Echo, a dual-screen smart phone running Google Inc.’s Android 2.2 operating system. The mobile phone is comprised of …

The Age Australia | February 8, 2011 | Asher Moses The second Google-branded smartphone is about to hit Australia as analysts predict the search giant’s mobile platform will surpass iPhone …

Nokia Corp.’s still-fairly-new CEO, Stephen Elop, yesterday sent an internal memo to Nokia staff laying out his views on the company’s current market position. To say it probably didn’t make easy reading for Nokia employees could be something of an understatement.