More Americans went shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend than in recent memory, and online shopping accounted for the highest percentage of the weekend's sales yet.

The smartphone industry has designated which smartphone OS best fits each usergroup to help vendors sell phones and consumers buy the one that's right for them.

Jobs is recruiting lawyers who have fought for and against some of the world's largest companies, including Microsoft, Intel and Broadcom. Broadcom won a patent dispute with Qualcomm last year that ended with Qualcomm paying $891 million in cash over four years.

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, is aggressively promoting rival smartphone offerings such as Samsung Electronics' Galaxy handset.

Apple is not only poaching corporate customers from RIM, it's poaching members of RIM's enterprise sales team.

The exact reasons behind the pull weren't known but could involve both legitimate security concerns and competition.

The Comet measures 4.1 by 2.2 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs just 3.6 ounces.

Apple has revealed some of the new features in iOS 4.2 for iPhone, including interface tweaks and added functionality

Dell has announced that it will be replacing 25,000 BlackBerry smartphones and instead provide its employees with Dell devices running Microsoft's operating system.

Nokia Says UK view of customs laws makes EU haven for fakes.

If you're waiting for the first LTE smartphone on Verizon Wireless to arrive, Verizon's CEO says it'll happen in February 2011

"We haven't set prices yet because the phone will only be released at the end of this year," said the head of China Unicom's technology department.

Apple, HTC and RIM was sued by patent holder St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants for alleged infringement of six U.S. patents for computer-function management.

In an online video, the Canadian wireless giant further raised its war of words with Apple by showing how its PlayBook dwarfs the iPad for just about every application.

The head of RIM fired a shot at rival Apple, slamming the notion that smartphones need "apps." "You don't need an app for the Web," chief executive Jim Balsillie said during an on-stage interview at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Confusing headline? it's about a new social network idea.

Have you ever wondered which smartphone would last the longest when cooked like a hamburger?

Sharp Corpsaid Monday that it wants to grab about a 30% chunk of Japan's smartphone market with its new models offering functions and features that specifically cater to local needs.

Engadget has published what it claims are photos of the unannounced, unreleased Nexus S Android handset from Samsung.

"initial supplies are tight", says Microsoft. Is demand really that strong or is the software holding back shipments artificially?

Earlier this year, TeliaSonera picked the same two companies to supply its faster networks using the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in Sweden and Norway.

The independent consumer watchdog magazine scored smartphones based on voice quality, ease of use, battery capacity, camera quality and other criteria.

Motorola accused Microsoft of infringing 16 patents with its Xbox gaming console and in Windows for servers, PCs, and mobile devices, the company said.

Nokia reabsorbs Symbian, and Microsoft ships Windows Phone 7 -- two big yawns. How they became the mobile industry's elephants in the room.