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Palm Pre users rejoice: a new version of webOS, 1.2.0, is now available. It’s about 79 megabytes heavy, and it brings several new important features, one of them being support for paid app purchases from the App Catalog.

Microsoft Corp and Nokia announced an alliance on Wednesday to bring advanced business software to smartphones in a bid to counter the dominance of Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry device.

Great story from iPhone ad network provider AdWhirl. Apparently the developer of one of the most popular applications for the platform ever wasn't generating any ad revenue from it for several days, missing out on up to $2000 a day according to the company's co-founder Sam Yam.

Prepare yourself for the onslaught of tip calculators and flashlights, friends, because the Mojo SDK for Pre's WebOS is out and ready to rock. You can download it right here and start coding immediately, if not sooner.

Our major beef thus far has been the Pre's fairly sparse app store and this promises to open things up considerably.

In little more than a month, the beta of Appcelerator's Titanium Mobile has garnered the attention of more than 3,000 developers. But the beta hasn't just gotten some respectable use: it's changing what kind of apps get created.

The two will work hand in hand to develop common technologies for use in the Moblin and Maemo platform projects, which will deliver Linux-based operating systems for these future mobile computing devices.

Bits is providing live updates and analysis from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

A new way to profit from writing software for smart phones is emerging: Sell apps, then sell your company.

Microsoft is now letting anyone download My Phone, a mobile data backup program for Windows Mobile devices, which was released in February as an invitation-only beta.

The next generation of iPhone software allows users to cut and paste text between applications.