For most of HTC’s existence, it was a little-known cellphone manufacturer making more Windows Mobile phones than anyone else in the world. Now the Taiwanese company has ambitions to create its own brand and be recognized as making the best Android smartphones. Turns out, it has just a few ideas…

All of the major smartphone platforms lost share to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android in a recent three-month period, even though they all gained subscribers due to the market’s overall growth.

So far this year, Android stands out most to developers with close to 60 percent of them having recently developed for the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) operating system. What’s more, Apple’s iOS now follows as the second most popular platform. The findings were produced by Vision Mobile on behalf of Telefonica…

Here’s further proof that the buzz and hype in mobile is increasingly narrowing in on two mobile platforms: Android and iPhone. Gartner said in its smartphone report released today that when looking at the OS market in the first quarter, Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) were the only two vendors…

If anyone was hoping that Palm’s financial problems would lead to a less cluttered mobile operating system market—you are out of luck. HP (NYSE: HPQ) was resoundingly clear this afternoon during a conference call discussing its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. It intends on investing heavily in the webOS platform,…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is announcing today the latest version of the iPhone operating system, which will come with at least 100 new features, like five times zoom in the camera. But Steve Jobs says there’s seven major updates coming today. Here’s the list in real-time: 1. Multi-tasking: This is the…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will have to justify why it is launching two separate mobile-phone projects after it presents the much-rumored “Project Pink” devices next week to a crowd of journalists. The software giant invited the media to an event on Monday in San Francisco, which sources tell Reuters is designed…

There are at least four different versions of the Android operating system currently in the market, which has raised concerns that the platform will become fragmented and difficult to develop for. With each additional version, developers must support and tweak applications multiple times—a burdensome process that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has…

At CTIA last year, Motricity’s Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Jim Ryan grabbed headlines when he said, “Shame on us…My hope is that the mobile internet does not go down the path of re-creating the internet.” Unlike with the internet, he believes users should pay for content and services they…

Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a “completely new smartphone OS.” The latest smartphone platform market share figures were released today by comScore and Microsoft posted the steepest drop. The new Windows Phone 7 Series—due later this year—can’t come to market soon enough.

When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled Windows Phone 7 last month, we figured that was the extent of its comeback plans in mobile. But now, there’s evidence that the software giant has something else up its sleeve. Two reports released today from unnamed sources indicate that Microsoft’s “Project Pink” is alive…

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…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled a completely new smartphone operating system last month that in no way resembles its past corporate image. The new Windows Phone 7 fits somewhere between Bing’s visually appealing user interface and the consumer friendliness of a Zune music player. But to make the necessary leap required…

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…

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…

Stating concerns about Google’s dominance in the mobile advertising market and lack of competition, two consumer groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to block Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob. In a joint letter to the FTC, Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy said Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) isn’t launching its Google Chrome operating system quite yet—but it is ready to talk about it. During an event Thursday, VP of product management Sundar Pichai said the operating system was a year away from launch but said the company had “made tons of progress” on what…

By the end of the year, it looks like Google’s Android operating system will have moved beyond the smartphone. MIPS Technologies, a company which designs processors for various home entertainment devices, says it is working with partners to design Android-based platforms for set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices, and…

At yesterday’s MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Engineering VP Vic Gundotra said the app store trend is just a fad and at some point powerful browsers will take over as the main mechanism for delivering services to the phone, reports FT.com. While that may be true, the…