Adobe will provide one more version of Flash Player for the new Android 4.0 operating system by year's end before following through on its plan to <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/19239/apples_steve_jobs_vindicated_as_adobe_kills_mobile_flash">halt development</a> of the software for mobile browsers.
AT&T on Monday acknowledged an organized attempt to hack information on as many as 1 million AT&T wireless customer accounts, but the company said no accounts were breached.
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone running Android 4.0 (also known as Ice Cream Sandwich) will be available through Canadian wireless carriers starting Dec. 7 and is already shipping <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222002/Samsung_Galaxy_Nexus_on_sale_in_U.K._with_new_video_ad">in the U.K.</a> . Verizon Wireless still hasn't announced a release date for the device in U.S.
The $249 Nook Tablet from Barnes & Noble costs $50 more than the Amazon Kindle Fire and has about double the storage and memory. But there's also something else about the Nook that caught the eye of teardown experts at iFixit: A metal loop at the lower left corner of the metal cover.
Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet will leapfrog most competitive offerings to quickly become number two in the market behind Apple's iPad, according to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research.
By mid-2012, Apple will overtake Hewlett-Packard as the world's biggest PC vendor, thanks largely to iPad sales, analyst firm Canalys said Monday.
The Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon.com. Teardown experts at IHS iSuppli found it costs Amazon $201.70 to build the new Kindle Fire, less than $3 above the $199 retail price.
Samsung's hot new Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to run Android 4.0, went <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/17/2568251/galaxy-nexus-uk-release-date-launch">on sale</a> Thursday in the U.K. and is expected to be available in the U.S. on Verizon Wireless by the end of the month.
Amazon is working on a smartphone to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a Citigroup analyst quoted by <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111117/amazon-kindlephone-for-2012/">All Things D</a> .
A study measuring the performance of the iPhone 4S on the three major U.S. wireless carriers found AT&T to be superior in Web browsing and data downloads and uploads when compared to Apple's latest smartphone on either the Verizon Wireless or Sprint network.
Apple's iPhone has unseated the Research in Motion BlackBerry as the top smartphone used by mobile employees, according to an iPass survey of more than 2300 workers around the world.
Amazon's recent purchase of Yap, a maker of voice recognition technology, and the arrival of Siri speech software inside Apple's iPhone 4S smartphone has sparked heightened consumer interest in voice commands for smartphones and tablets.
Barnes & Noble began selling its new 7-in. Nook Tablet for $249 on Wednesday, earlier than executives said it would appear.
Verizon Wireless announced a rugged Casio push-to-talk cell phone that will go on sale Nov. 23 for $149.99 after rebate.
Verizon Communications was singled out as one of the nation's biggest tax dodgers by two citizen action groups and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union on Tuesday.