Michelle Megna

Smartphones now account for one-third of the mobile Internet traffic worldwide, up from 26 percent six months ago, with the Apple iPhone leading the way, according to a report released today by the mobile ad company AdMob. The report, which found the iPhone responsible for 33 percent of smartphone traffic worldwide and 50 percent stateside, […]

Efforts by Dell to force its way into the hot smartphone market may have hit a snag, with an industry analyst claiming its prototype device failed to please carriers — which means the computer-maker may consider buying a mobile company to help bolster the effort. “In terms of specifics, we hear Dell built prototypes with […]

Skype is working to deliver on its promise to target corporate customers, announcing today the beta version of Skype SIP for Business. The new software promises to allow employees to make domestic and international calls using regular office telephones instead of relying on a headset and a PC, thanks to Skype’s integration with SIP — […]

Recession-weary cell phone users are bucking the bullish smartphone market trend by abandoning “extras,” such as Internet connectivity, e-mail and texting, according to a recent report by a Washington, D.C.-based telecomm think-tank. Fifteen percent of those surveyed have cut back on Internet, e-mail and texting plans in the last six months because of “actual job […]

Even after a 72 percent drop in smartphone revenue from last year, Palm’s grim quarterly numbers didn’t keep CEO Ed Colligan from being upbeat about the potential of Palm’s upcoming Pre to save the embattled mobile device maker’s bottom line. For its third fiscal quarter of 2009, the company reported a net loss of $98 […]

Sony’s PRS-505 e-book readerSource: Sony. Click to enlarge. The battle between Sony’s and Amazon’s e-book readers is heating up now that Google is stepping in to throw some new kindling on the fire. The search leader said it plans to make half a million of its digital books available for free on Sony’s Reader devices — a […]

Acer’s entry into the lucrative smartphone market is in full swing, with four upcoming handsets planned for rollout while executives hint that non-Windows based devices and an app store are under consideration for roll-out later this year. The world’s third-largest PC vendor announced its first family of smartphones, called Tempo, last month at the Mobile […]

Google and media-buying heavyweight WPP are jointly funding research to better understand how online media influences advertising. The two companies announced Wednesday that they will award $4.6 million in 11 grants to academic stalwarts such as M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School. When the “Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program,” formed last year, the […]

Pledging to deliver three Android smartphones this year, phone maker HTC may be poised to continue leading the pack in getting devices sporting the Google-backed OS out of the gate. But that strategy alone might not be enough to keep the Taiwan-based company on top in the open source mobile market. According to HTC CEO […]

The number of people using mobile devices to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled in the past year, according to figures released by market firm ComScore this week. Young males are the most avid users of mobile news and information, according to Comscor (NASDAQ: SCOR), with half of 18-to 34-year-old males […]

Research in Motion is likely to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a big way — Irish rocker Bono just broke up with the iPod and his new mobile babe is the BlackBerry. Apparently, RIM said “walk away, walk away, walk away,” and Bono followed, switching his allegiance from Apple’s iPod to RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry, […]

A highly anticipated upgrade to the Android mobile operating system for the T-Mobile G1, otherwise known as the “Cupcake update,” is slated for April, according to buzz in the blogosphere. At the same time, industry watchers are predicting that sales of Android-based smartphones will eclipse the Apple iPhone as the dominant new player on the […]