Not to be outdone by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the rest of the cloud bandwagon, Best Buy is also expanding its own services up in the sky. Today it has launched a new music streaming offering—appropriately enough called Best Buy Music Cloud. On the…

Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: HTC passes Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in market cap; the “Facebook phone” launches in the UK; and Mexican media group Televisa makes a big investment in mobile with Isuacell.

Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its newest onslaught to the digital media economy: an Android app store, appropriately branded “appstore”, beginning with nearly 4,000 apps and counting. Why will this latest app store be different from the rest, and what’s next for the giant e-tailer?

Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now being sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, an extension of a retailing deal the two companies started in the…

With speculation building up that both Google and Apple are getting ready to launch cloud-based music services, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is making sure that it has its hat in the ring, too. The mobile company’s investment arm, Motorola Mobility Ventures, has taken a strategic stake in cloud-media service Catch Media,…

Updated 3.2.2011: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today unveiled its iPad 2 and as predicted, it’s thinner and faster. Also announced: iOS 4.3 with FaceTime (NYSE: TWX), Photo Booth, new iMovie and more. Plus, take our poll: do you plan on buying the iPad 2? Updated: Several sources (look here and here)…

So INQ and HTC are revving up to release the first “Facebook phones”? Not exactly, but it’s a crucial step for Facebook in testing the waters for an even deeper plunge into mobile.

In the last six weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over just how many Windows Phone 7 handsets have been sold since the devices hit the market. Now we have a number, sort of: 1.5 million, revealed by Microsoft’s new VP of business and marketing for Windows Phones,…

Is this another example of a retailer looking to catch attention in the holiday shopping rush, or a quick response to early sales indicators? Only days after Carphone Warehouse started to advertise the Nexus S, which it is selling exclusively in the UK, the device is already getting discounted. First…

The details are now official: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched today its newest device, the Nexus S, and the latest Android update, Gingerbread. The device, designed with Samsung, lays claim to being the first smartphone with a contoured screen. First markets for the devices: the U.S., where it will be…

Not a great stat if you’re a Windows or Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fan in the Old World and are hoping for some momentum behind your favorite platform: in Europe neither is selling very well.

—Windows Phone 7: Devices built on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform finally go on sale in the U.S. First models out the door, as listed on Microsoft’s own storefront, include HTC’s HD7 on the T-Mobile network; and the HTC Surround and the Samsung Focus, both on AT&T (NYSE: T). All devices…

If all this world needs, it is a few more mobile application stores. GetJar is now letting carriers, retailers and other companies, launch a store using its catalog of thousands of applications. One of the first to use the white label service is The Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer…

Is Carphone Warehouse finding it hard to shift its UK stock of Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre handsets? Amid speculation that sales of the Palm Pre have been flagging in the UK, the mobile retailer is offering two free flights to one of 15 European destinations to those who buy the…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s flagship smartphone, the Satio, has been pulled from the shelves of two British retailers after consumers complained of several problems, including the device freezing, the ringtone volume fluctuating and problems with phone numbers syncing with the address book. Both Phones 4U and Carphone Warehouse has stopped…

Carphone Warehouse-controlled Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) France announced on Friday it had entered an agreement to buy Tele2 Mobile France from Swedish telco Tele2 for €56 million ($83.6 million; £51.4 million), giving it 385,000 extra customers. VMF, a JV which is 48.5 percent owned by Carphone and operated by Omer…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has begun shipping its flagship N97 mobile phone in more than 75 countries, the company said today. The phone, which sports a touch screen and Qwerty keyboard, is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry devices, sales of which ate into Nokia’s share of the…

Maybe Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will meet that 10 million iPhones target after all. O2, the exclusive UK carrier, says more than 130,000 people have used its online form to pre-register their interest in the new 3G handset since its announcement last week. That’s nearly four times the 35,000 pre-registrations O2…