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New data from mobile application tracker Flurry reveals that 20% of the companies building iPhone applications started business specifically for the iPhone platform.

More air travelers may soon be scanning their smartphones instead of paper slips at airport gates.

Palm's taken big strides, but it still isn't enough to upset the ''Apple'' cart in the handset market.

All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor.

Microsoft releases its first mobile application for phones running the Android operating system from rival Google.

Apple is suing HTC, the maker of several Google-based smart phones, claiming patent infringement on the iPhone's user interface and hardware.

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.

AT&T says it has worked hard to improve its much-maligned third-generation (3G) network over the last eight months — erecting hundreds of new cell towers, using better-performing wireless spectrum, and souping up its cell sites across the country — and the results of our latest 13-city, 3G network performance tests suggest that the network has indeed undergone a drastic makeover.

Marisa Taylor takes the Magellan RoadMate iPhone app. and Premium Car Kit for a spin to see how it compares with an in-car navigation device.

Google has just rolled out "Google Shopper," a new mobile application for Android devices that offers a variety of different ways to search for products.