In Rob Glaser’s first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector to continue its break-neck pace of innovation. Glaser did not hint at what he might do next, but…

No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first time—anywhere over AT&T’s 3G network. The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99—twice as much as last year’s version that was…

—Apple’s iPad tablet is expected to hit store shelves sometime later this month, but now analysts are saying that recent checks with Taiwan indicate some slight production delays. Think Equity said iPad production was supposed to ramp up in February, but now volumes continue to be low in the first…

The International Trade Commission will have first dibs on deciding whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) or Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are infringing on each others’ patents, a federal judge has decided. Yesterday, a Judge in Delaware agreed to put the patent claims between Apple and Nokia on hold, pending a resolution before…

The long-rumored Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation phone is now becoming a reality. Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products, including a smartphone that would be capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games, as well as connecting to Sony’s online media platform, reports the WSJ, which quotes people familiar…

Like so many of its peers, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is trying to find the right notes to play in just the right order when it comes to getting paid for digital content. Unfortunately, John Philip Sousa isn’t around to write the march. Instead, the Post is mixing it…

With Apple’s iPad not shipping for another three weeks or so, and the 3G version more than a month out, it’s hard to know how well the tablet will sell, or how people will use it. Despite the unknown, AT&T (NYSE: T), which is the exclusive carrier for both the…

While no one wants to wake up to the news that Apple—one of the most successful consumer brands—has filed a lawsuit against you, in this case, little-known HTC must have celebrated just a tiny bit. In 13 years, the Taiwanese has grown to more than 9,000 employees worldwide, including 3,000…

A few hours after Steve Case tweeted that Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) CEO Don Graham told a hometown crowd Tuesday the paper wouldn’t charge for online news, the company told paidContent it was launching its first paid iPhone app today. With that, the Washington Post joins a small but…

More legal wrangles for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over patents as the smartphone market continues to heat up. The iPhone maker is suing rival handset maker HTC, which makes devices using both Android and Windows platforms, for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the device user interface, underlying architecture and…

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has updated its mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable customers to update their DVR settings remotely, including the ability to search and schedule new recordings, cancel recordings and sort TV listings by category. The free application, which launched last summer, extended most Comcast…

Apple’s ban on some sexually-suggestive content in the iTunes App Store was due to an increasing number of complaints from women’s and parent groups, a top exec tells the NYT. But the policy is selective, as not all apps featuring scantily-clad women have been bannished. For example, Sports Illustrated’s free…

Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), China Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform,” which is obviously in direct response to Apple’s success with its own…

If you think that the whole apps space is getting too crowded, and discovery mechanisms too limited, then online apps directories are here to help. And now some mini-consolidation in the space:  Appolicious, a new-ish iPhone and Android app directory, is acquiring AppVee, founded two years ago. Terms of the…

Does Apple’s iBooks ambition mean a new DRM regime for existing e-book app makers? Less than a week after the new iBooks store was announced alongside the iPad, the Amazon-owned Stanza iPhone e-books app has released an upgrade, the version notes for which read: “Removed ability to share books via…

For some critics, the lack of participation from content companies at yesterday’s iPad launch threw some cold water on predictions for how the new device could help the media business regain revenues lost to the web. But if you looked hard enough, publishers were there and, more importantly, some have…

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Tablet will save the newspaper industry, put Amazon’s Kindle out of business and change the way students read textbooks. It’s what technology CEOs write poems about, and it’s what Doonesbury considers fodder for a comic strip. All of the fun ends tomorrow as reality sets in…

The week is thick with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) news and speculation. Today, we found out that Apple had a stellar holiday quarter, and on Wednesday, it will reveal its latest product announcement. With so much hype, investors could not contain themselves, and drove up Apple’s stock $6.44, or 3.26 percent,…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google’s rivalry may be hitting a new high as reports roll in that the iPhone-maker may be talking to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) about replacing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) with Bing as the default search engine on the popular smartphone. BusinessWeek reports that the talks have been under…