Could iCloud, Apple’s boldest attempt at Web services to date, have been so myopic as to cut one of the most basic Web-based capabilities out of the former MobileMe service? A back-and-forth on tech blogs and Twitter Monday on an otherwise slow news day created a little confusion regarding how…

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes of its CEOs and other executives. But those steps forward have also been met with a number of knocks. Now, on the day that RIM prepares for a…

Facebook has just wrapped up the press conference announcing its new e-mail product—billed as a “Gmail killer.” Mark Zuckerberg hit the stage right on time and began with some personal research he’s done about the use and disuse of e-mail. About 350 million people are actively using messaging on Facebook,…

Seattle-based Kiha Software, which has raised $20 million from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen, launched Aro Mobile, a product in beta for Android devices that it supposed to make your phone smarter, and link together email, SMS, calendar and contacts to make your phone into a virtual assistant.

Although they’ve been working together since 2004, the CEO’s of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) held a press conference in Times Square to announce the details of a new level for their relationship. The news, which leaked last week, has Yahoo providing Nokia devices with e-mail, search and…

Fresh from making a short-lived surge to the top of iTunes Store’s app chart, browser maker Opera is now buying Australian webmail service FastMail.fm to bolster its own email effort across multiple devices. The Opera desktop web browser, which claims 50 million users, has offered a built-in email client for…

At CTIA last year, Motricity’s Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Jim Ryan grabbed headlines when he said, “Shame on us…My hope is that the mobile internet does not go down the path of re-creating the internet.” Unlike with the internet, he believes users should pay for content and services they…

One of the more obvious opportunities in mobile is getting the smartphone past the affluent, early-adopters—and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the largest handset maker in the world, has a plan for how to do just that. Today, it unveiled the C-series smartphone product line, which Nokia describes in a blog post…

Google’s latest acquisition: reMail, a startup that sells an iPhone app that downloads users’ e-mail to their phones, so that they can search it quickly. In a blog post, reMail founder Gabor Cselle says that the reMail iPhone app is being discontinued, although he doesn’t say what Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will not be showing off any new phones next week at Mobile World Congress in Spain, but rather will focus on its content and services strategy. Bloomberg quotes an unnamed source as saying it will be the first time in at least a decade that the company…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a…

Not exactly the kind of news that Research In Motion needs in advance of its fiscal Q3 earnings report ... The company is reporting that “some” North American customers are “experiencing problems” with their e-mail service, regardless of carrier. Corporate users shouldn’t be affected, as the outage is hitting RIM’s…

AT&T (NYSE: T) will take a minority stake in Vlingo as part of a broader strategic alliance between the two companies. Cambridge, Mass.-based Vlingo uses speech-recognition to allow users to text, email, call contacts, search the web, or update their Facebook or Twitter status by speaking into their phone. Terms…

A number of discontented iPhone fans have switched to other devices recently, choosing instead to use the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android. Now, a couple of those big voices are already bailing on the various devices calling them inferior. Those examples are being used as the…

—Samsung apps for touchscreen phones: Samsung has released a developer kit, so that widgets can be easily made for Samsung’s touchscreen phone lineup, using what they call TouchWiz. The widgets will be able to run across handsets, PCs and IPTV using technology from Seattle-based UIEvolution. The platform uses Eclipse, a…