Two-thirds of American mobile phones owners say the carrier is more important than the make of phone, according to research by Best Buy Mobile.

Research In Motion has acquired California-based mobile infrastructure software company, Cellmania, which, according to Cellmania's founders, will help to strengthen RIM's focus on mobile content and the BlackBerry ecosystem.

During the first six months of this year, the worldwide smartphone applications market exceeded the total for the whole of last year.

Qualcomm will be extending its research activities by setting up Qualcomm Services Labs (QSL) to incubate new services and applications aimed at tapping mobile technology.

Nokia and Intel have entered a joint venture based on the MeeGo operating system to bring 3D and virtual worlds to mobile devices.

In a not-to-be-missed saga of impending world domination, Christopher Backeberg extracts the essence of about a zillion news reports, reviews and analyses on the launch of Facebook Places last week and its implications for location-based services (LBS)...

According to a new report from Global Industry Analysts (GIA), the global market for location based services is projected to reach US$21.14 billion in annual revenue by 2015, registering 1.24 billion subscribers.

TripAdvisor has announced a new partnership with Nokia, which will include the integration of the TripAdvisor service into Nokia's Ovi Maps.

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On July 19th, Foursquare announced that it had received its 100 millionth check-in. Two days later, Facebook announced it had reached the 500 million active users mark.