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 [...]

A new smartphone produced by LG, one of the world’s largest electronics producers, will be their first to run Google’s Android platform, the company announced recently.
But, for now, the services will only extend to LG’s domestic market – South Korea.
Although, LG has said before that [...]

Smartphones use may become easier for the illiterate and disabled because of a new initiative from two foreign research organizations and one of the world’s largest computer companies.
IBM has partnered with the National Institute of Design in India as well as Tokyo’s Research Center for [...]

Total sales of smartphones will increase to 491.9 million units by 2012, more than triple from the 139.3 million level reached in 2008, according to a Connecticut-based research firm.
To demonstrate the growing demand for smartphones at all levels, a recent article from Bloomberg News compared [...]

A new study suggests that more than half of workers take advantage of smartphone technology while they are driving a car.
A survey by CareerBuilder, a major capital solutions firm, showed that 54 percent of participants – 52,000 workers from several industries – used their smartphones [...]

Verizon Wireless will provide its subscribers with the ability to watch NFL football games, the major telecommunications provider announced recently.
Through a four-year agreement with the football organization, coverage of the upcoming NFL draft and the next NFL season will be available on Verizon smartphones, according [...]

Employees in a broad range of sectors may want to consider smartphones to maximize their effectiveness. According to one expert, the added availability provided by a smartphone could provide a competitive advantage in the most crucial of situations.
Writing for Investment Executive, Danny Bradbury argues that [...]

Two computer security professionals snuck a sophisticated mobile Trojan into an innocent-looking weather app for the iPhone and Android-powered devices, quickly amassing a smartphone botnet encompassing 8,000 devices.
The device secretly gathered information on users, including phone numbers and GPS coordinates, much in the same way [...]

Sony today let slip that it would release its own line of wireless mobile solutions to U.S. consumers, in a bid to go toe-to-toe with Apple’s iPhone for smartphone gamers.
The Wall Street Journal reports that anonymous sources within the company revealed that "the new products [...]

While many tech pundits have castigated Apple’s refusal to support Adobe’s Flash video framework on their mobile devices, some say that the company’s CEO, Steve Jobs, could yet prove himself to be a visionary.
According to tech news website Slashgear, "website developers seem to be scaling [...]

Popular VoIP service Skype is now available for users of smartphones running Nokia’s Symbian operating system, enabling free instant messaging and Skype-to-Skype calling.
PC World reports that "Nokia and Skype have developed different clients for Nokia phones that have a touchscreen, including the Nokia N97 mini [...]