Michelle Megna

The Palm Pre will debut a week from tomorrow with a beta version of the company’s smartphone app store along with iTunes and Twitter features that analysts say help position the Pre as the closest iPhone contender to date. Leading up the June unveiling, Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) yesterday unveiled some signature features of the webOS […]

Up to 20 Android smartphones will be on the market worldwide this year as the battle for mobile market share becomes more fierce. In addition to Google’s Android, a key software update from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for its iPhone ships next month as well as Palm’s highly touted Pre sporting the new webOS. Eighteen to […]

When you’re the CEO of Amazon.com, you get to have fun at the shareholder’s meeting. While many tech execs these days are sweating their way through the yearly ritual — facing grim forecasts and unhappy shareholders — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) chief Jeff Bezos gave every indication of enjoying his day in front of the e-tail […]

Despite the Apple iPhone proving a big seller and a key growth driver for AT&T, the second-largest U.S. wireless network isn’t resting on its laurels. Instead, with a host of rivals poised to unveil flashy new phones that aim to unseat the iPhone, AT&T’s marching out a parade of new smartphones of its own this […]

Another day, another iPhone app approval kerfuffle. At issue recently is an e-reader, Eucalyptus, that enables iPhone owners to access free books from the Project Gutenberg library. Though the app is now available for sale online, it was initially rejected by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) because it allowed readers to download the Kama Sutra, which was […]

Nokia today opened its mobile application store both here and overseas with an eye to stealing share from players like Apple — despite initial reports of performance issues and confusion over availability in the U.S. The world’s top phone maker said the estimated 50 million Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phone owners can begin downloading apps, games, […]

MiFi might be the buzzworthy technology of the moment after the mobile wireless hotspot device landed the backing of Verizon and Sprint this month. But at least one wireless tech vendor is looking to top MiFi, with a new enhancement for smartphones that turns them into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. As a result, mobile hotspot functionality […]

Sun’s planning to birth its own “billion user baby” – launching an app store June 1. Sun Microsystems is the latest company to jump on the app store bandwagon with Project Vector, likely to be renamed Java Store, to launch June 1 at its annual conference, and CEO Jonathan Schwartz is already making bold predictions […]

America Online’s Platform-A tops the U.S. rankings for ad networks. That puts Platform-A ahead of Web heavyweight’s Yahoo’s Ad Network in second-place and Google’s Ad Network, in third, according to a comScore report out today. The research firm also said online ad networks posted double-digit growth while grabbing market share from the big sites that […]

On the heels of news that Yahoo temporarily put the [brakes on its Java-based mobile app](/dev-news/article.php/3821336/Yahoo+Scales+Back+Mobile+Apps+for+iPhone+Focus.htm) development, the company just announced voice-enabled oneSearch services for its Yahoo Mobile iPhone application and for BlackBerry devices. The promise is that phone owners can search for flight numbers, local restaurants and Web sites by asking for it. In […]

Smartphones continue to grab center stage in the mobile market as worldwide sales keep climbing, while basic cell phones lag behind with recording-breaking drops in purchase volume, according to a Gartner report released on Wednesday. Sales of smartphones shined in the first quarter, up 12.7 percent to 36 million units worldwide from the same period […]

There’s hardly anything worse than thinking you’re getting a treat, and then having it snatched away for a while, which is what happened to T-Mobile G1 owners. T-Moblie delayed the roll out of Android 1.5 for G1 customers with the following announcement, “We are working diligently to get Android 1.5 out as soon as possible, […]