Verizon has taken it upon itself to challenge the set of rules regarding net neutrality laid out by the FCC. The challenge is going to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and in it Verizon and their legal team state they are “concerned” with the FCC’s “assertion of broad authority [...]

We haven’t heard much about TELUS’ version of the HTC Desire HD since we saw it pass the FCC back in December, but a new leak courtesy of MobileSyrup is giving us the details on when and for how much we can get our hands on one. It appears that the off-contract price for the [...]

Now that T-Mobile is poised to drop the Android 2.2 update for their Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S device, Sprint is trying to avoid the same uproar from their Epic 4G users that arose after T-Mobile and Samsung were accused of withholding the update. A tweet recently went out letting their customers know that Sprint intends [...]

Minutes before Google’s Q4 2010 Earnings call a bomb was dropped… Eric Schmidt would no longer be the CEO of Google and co-founder Larry Page would be taking over. Talk about dropping a bomb. I quickly turned on the live webcast and threw together my thoughts while listening. Eric Schmidt has done an amazing job [...]

The NOOKcolor from Barnes & Noble has seen new life as a tablet thanks to some hard work to root the ereader and port Android 2.2 onto it, but if you were having trouble with the initial build or want to try something new you’re in luck. A new build known as Nookie Froyo is [...]

After dropping the price of the original HTC EVO 4G from Sprint to $99, Amazon is bringing the younger brother’s title of cheapest EVO back with a drop in price for the HTC EVO Shift 4G. The Shift, which is only a few weeks old, can be had for $89.99 through the world’s largest online [...]

Breaking news in from Google’s earnings call: Larry Page is poised to take over the reigns of Google from current CEO Eric Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt will still be a part of Google after the transfer of power — his recent statements on the future priorities of Google suggest as much. He will be hanging around [...]

HTC may have done away with the trackpad on the sleek beauty of a render that we have speculated could be the HTC Desire 2, but take a look at the above image and tell us its trackball doesn’t remind you of a baby Nexus One. The screen and shape of the phone suggest it [...]

When a phone manufacturer has a good thing going, they want to keep it going. That’s why ever since you’ve seen phones get more marketable names, manufacturers and carriers continue popular lines by making sequels and variations. For HTC, the Desire brand is one they obviously value an awful lot. They’ve got the HTC Desire, [...]

A little birdy just told us that a new update to LauncherPro has gone live in the Android Market, bringing right along with it some new fancy-pants screen transition animations in the same vein as ADW Launcher EX. There are four transitions effects to choose from currently, including Scale, Rotate, Flip, and Cube, with more [...]

In an effort to get technology into the hands of more of their citizens, the Indian government tendered a vender to supply them with 100,000 Android tablets priced at the equivalent of a low, low government subsidized $35. Now that vendor, HCL Infosystems, is being dropped from the deal after they “started listing some additional, [...]

After a holiday season that saw an onslaught of Droid-branded handsets, CES remained pretty quiet on the Droid front. Aside from the pretty awesome Motorola DROID BIONIC, the only other potential Droid revealed didn’t get the branding: the Motorola XOOM tablet. But worry not about the future of the franchise, as insiders are telling DroidLife [...]

Eric Schmidt recently penned a guest article for the Harvard Business Review in which he focuses on the aspects of technology Google is focusing on to help their business grow. With Google’s presence as a straight-up tech company rather than simply a web search company growing thanks in large part to Android, the company’s emphasis [...]

Last week IFI CLAIMS Patent Services presented a list of the top fifty companies in terms of patents awarded in 2010, and our beloved Google and torchbearer of the Android OS was not to be found on the list. Microsoft fell at number three with just over 3,000 new patents, while Apple’s 563 new patents [...]

Uh Ohs, Trapster users might be in a bit of trouble. the company has begun notifying users of the app that alerts you to the location of speed traps and cameras so you can continue driving recklessly free of any legal ramifications that their website has been hacked, and the emails and password of thousands [...]

It’s not that Lenovo hasn’t worked on Tablets, Smartphones, or TVs in the past, but they’re finally realizing that these areas of focus need their complete attention as their arguably the biggest areas of growth. Likewise, failure to compete at the current pivotal point in the tech world could mean giving up a lead that’s [...]

All the speculation about the Android 2.2 update for the Samsung Vibrant — all the claims that Samsung and T-Mobile were holding it back intentionally or that T-Mobile didn’t want to pay Samsung for the update — looks like it is about to end. Speaking to PC Mag, chief marketing officer at T-Mobile Cole Brodman [...]

WireFly just forwarded us a little video they put together pitting two of Sprint’s 4G handsets head to head to see which one tops out with the best overall performance. Using Smartbench 2010, both handsets were put through a standard benchmarking test and ranked for productivity and gaming, and perhaps not surprisingly, the Epic 4G [...]

A roadmap of when you can expect Android 2.2 on your US Cellular Android has just surfaced, and if it holds true it looks like at least one US Galaxy S device could be getting its upgrade to Froyo very soon. As it stands, the Samsung Mesmerize is slated to get the update in early [...]

This is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK. And let me reiterate again, in some situations, not even safe for outside of work. Earmuffs on the children please. Now that we’ve got that covered, if you’re into rap, are Android-obsessed, and aren’t easily offended you may find this video/rap/song kind of funny. Just a couple days [...]