Smartphone technology is at a frontier for development as users are increasingly apt to buy wireless phone applications, according to a recent report by MSNBC.
The article says research for improvements in display screens, multitasking capabilities, and processing power are being fueled by the demand for [...]

A company accused by Apple of infringing on its iPhone patents has recently fired back, saying that it disagrees and will fully defend itself.
Apple filed a complaint to the International Trade Commission cliaming that HTC infringed on 20 of its patents.
Peter Chou, CEO for [...]

The market for wireless phone applications will grow to $17.5 billion in the next two years, according to a recent study by Getjar.
Getjar, an app store itself, reports that the market for wireless phone applications will rise at a pace of 92 percent per year [...]

Fourth quarter sales of smartphones in 2009 showed "remarkable" smartphone shipment growth compared to the rest of the year, according to a recent report by ABI research.
Smartphones sales increased by 25 percent in 2009’s last quarter compared to the previous quarter. The third quarter only [...]

With an increasing number of smartphone users downloading wireless phone applications, new research shows that more are apt to pay a small fee for some of the services, causing experts to reassess the rising value of the app market.
The market for wireless phone applications will [...]

About 40 percent of BlackBerry users would rather have an Apple iPhone and one-third have their mind set on Google’s Nexus One as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent study by Crowd Science.
The Crowd Science survey also found that users of Google’s smartphone [...]

While a new 4G network may provide smartphones with quicker access to the mobile web, it may come with a price, according to experts.
Writing for Dow Jones Newsires, Roger Cheng recently claimed that while major telecoms are now trumpeting the abilities of 4G and that [...]

Smartphones users have accessed social networking websites through their mobile browsers 8.3 percent more than they did last year, according to recent research by comScore.
The study found that while 22.5 percent of smartphone users accessed a social networking site in January 2009, 30.8 percent of [...]

The mobile retail sector, comprised of advertising and promotional campaigns via smartphones, will exceed $12 billion in spending by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The Juniper report says that mobile marketing expenditure now consists mainly of coupon redemption promotions, but with rising [...]

On a recent morning in Wilsonville, Ore., the theft of an iPhone was quickly resolved because the owner had purchased telephone tracking software, according to an article in The Oregonian.
The suspect, a 19-year-old named Ricky Tony George, was charged with second-degree theft and providing false [...]

As a growing numbers of internet users now use their smartphones instead of PCs to get on the web, media companies are studying how prone people are to pay for content when they are on the go, according to Reuters.
The report points to the success [...]

Six new patent lawsuits are being leveled against Apple for the technology it uses in its popular i-Phone, according to recent news reports.
SmartPhone Technologies is seeking damages, expenses and costs from the iPhone producer for infringing on six of the company’s patents for email synchronization [...]