It has been 18 months since we launched , Microsoft’s mobile barcode technology. In that time, more than one billion Tags have been printed by people and businesses all over the world. In the month of April alone, more than 20 million magazines with Tags were in the hands of U.S. consumers. Today, I am thrilled to announce Tag is coming out of be.. more »

Windows Phone 7 will fail because the usability is too not competitive.. more »

For those of you lucky enough to have the , you may have been surprised to see that your Barnes & Noble eReader received a nice and much needed update. I opened up my Barnes and Noble eReader tonight and noticed an alert for a new update. I allowed it to install on my HD2 and noticed new features such as an option for a nice looking grid view of .. more »

has announced a "Kids are Free" promotion that will allow qualifying family plans to receive up to three lines of service for free until January 1, 2012. Ashley White, Marketing Director for T-Mobile, stated, “ The promotion is set up for customers to pay for lines one and two on T-Mobile's Family Plans with lines three, four, and five being fr.. more »

has scheduled a press event for September 15, 2010 in London to introduce the HD3 Windows Phone 7 device. The HTC Windows Phone 7 is reported to have a 4.5" AMOLED touchscreen, dual core 1.5ghz ARM-based processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB storage, 4G capable, a 8mp camera with HD recording capabilities, all powered by a 1800mah battery. We've seen signs that .. more »

IDC, who you may remember from the earlier this year, has gone ahead and released their forecast for smartphone adoption over the next five years in their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report. Personally, we can't even imagine what a smartphone will Finally, the big news for Microsoft it they are expected to regain market share bumping f.. more »

Well, it looks like Microsoft has started spending all that money to market Windows Phone 7. The above ad ran before a private screening of the upcoming re-make of Lawrence of Arabia. It's a shame the screening wasn't for a re-make of 2001: A Space Odyssey. You could have had the black monolith replaced with a Windows Phone 7 and have HAL the .. more »

Microsoft just too late in the smartphone game says financial analysts.. more »

Well, this one snuck under our radar.Sprint released an software update for the HTC Snap last month. Last month being July. The software provides several enhancements to the Snap including resolving issues where the Snap gets stuck in vibrate mode and does not save ringtone settings. You can download the software update over at HTC's Support .. more »

Samsung Galaxy Tab hands-on, Galaxy Tab specs vs iPad, Galaxy Tab apps and games, Galaxy Tab accessories Sprint Epic 4G review. Hands on with the T-Mobile Motorola Charm. BlackBerry Curve 3G Review BlackBerry C.. more »

When it's a slow news day and you have a quote from an official at a company, you can quickly make a mountain out of a molehill. , Samsung was quoted as saying We are prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it having success with a 2+ year old mobile OS Of course, the other half of .. more »

The rumors are true, folks. There's actually a Windows Phone here at the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. It's the LG Optimus 7, aka the GW910 aka the Panther. It's not a full production unit just yet, and it was on hand really to show off DLNA media sharing -- which lets you wirelessly pipe video, photos and the like from your phone to your TV... more »

Windows Phone 7 may not have cut/paste yet but it will have a fart piano! We've seen snippets of applications under development for Microsoft's new operating system and this one definitely stands out. Developed by Herm's Software the fart piano delivers tunes in an assortment of tones including the short fart, the escape, the bubbly, the beans .. more »

is now offering pre-paid monthly data plans without the need for service contracts. This includes a $30 pre-paid unlimited plan and a $10 pre-paid 25mb plan (anything over 25mb will cost you $.20 per MB). The limitation is that these pre-paid data plans are only for 3G enabled phones and the list of eligible phones doesn't include any Windows .. more »

HTC has tweeted that Peeps is back up and running. Actually, according to Twitter it's been up and running for a few days. Earlier this week everything went dark due to a problem when Twitter changed their authentication protocol.  It's nice to see that the conflict wasn't too hard to resolve.  Now that everything is up and running again, we ca.. more »

Samsung says there is hardly any demand for Windows Phone 7 so will concentrate on Android.. more »

is and coming for Windows Phone 7 soon, and we'll try to explain it. Basically it's a way to send out "alerts" based on certain categories and using geolcation. Some of those categories are: So lets say you're in midtown Manhattan and you notice a building is on fire or something really important happening, you can send a "warny" out and people .. more »

has released a handy SMS message utility, , that helps clean up some of the clutter in your inbox.  The app is available for $1.99 over at the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. If you've done any amount of texting you know that deleting messages can be tedious. msgCleaner will automatically delete old messages in one clean sweep. msgCleaner can be f.. more »

Windows Phone 7 goes gold, still without cut and paste.. more »

HD3 Leaked Document - Courtesy of Engadget You had to know it was only a matter of time. is reporting that the HTC HD3, successor to the ), will be launching on October 18th. The rumor stems from leaked internal documentation reportedly from UK carrier O2. If the document is to believed, the device will be named the HD7, possibly to correspond with .. more »