Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung…

One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answer to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store retail phenomenon, the unveiling of an Android retail operation, in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Samsung got dealt one more blow in Sydney’s courtrooms, as…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been no stranger to the apps rush that has swept through the mobile world, and now there are signs that it is looking to redouble its tablet efforts with a new HTML5 product. PaidContent understands that it is preparing for an autumn launch, possibly as soon…

Bit by bit, we are starting to get a better idea of what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to do to reassert itself in the mobile phone market in the months ahead. In the past few days, we’ve learned of an operator partnership with China Mobile; a new focus at a…

A rather big changing of the guard at the GSMA, the global mobile trade association that runs several big trade events, including the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It has appointed Anne Bouverot as its new director general, replacing Rob Conway, who had headed the organization for twelve years.

An Apple-free look at some of the big stories in mobile today: HTC delivers bumper results; Skype faces a patent suit; the longstanding CEO of the GSMA wireless trade association steps down; AT&T (NYSE: T) gives frank comments on Windows Phone challenges; and Sony (NYSE: SNE) launches its newest PSP…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop soundly dismissed recent rumors that the Finnish company is in talks to sell its hardware business to new partner Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). There are “absolutely no talks,” Elop told attendees at All Things D, describing the reports as “baseless.” He also gave a little…

We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry, but for the record, the influential CEO of WPP has laid it out: “[The iPad’s] not regarded as being the thing that’s going to save us,…

Facebook is shaping up to be the disruptive mobile player du jour—and it looks like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) might be taking some steps with its Gingerbread OS to curtail just how deeply Facebook can spread its influence on Android devices—but here’s a story related to the “Facebook phone” that, for…

At Mobile World Congress last week I had a chance to catch up with Charlie Nooney, the CEO of MobiTV, to talk about some of the fails we’ve seen in mobile TV services, why he thinks white-label services are the way forward, and how tablets can catapult mobile TV players…

HTC put its newest and most talked-about devices of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona—the two “Facebook phones” ChaCha and Salsa, and their Flyer tablet—under glass so that no one could play around with them. But under the changing colored lights of the HTC stand, I got a demonstration of…

Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (from newspapers to microblogs) mention different terms, Android and Android-based devices topped the charts for the most talked-about OS and handsets; and Android also played a major role in making…

Our own Ingrid Lunden has spent the past week in Barcelona, covering the massive tech event that is Mobile World Congress. Some highlights below:

If 2011 was the year that Android came into its own at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it may also have been the year that we started to get a glimpse of the next big player in the space. Not only did two handset makers give us their distinct versions…

You know those numbers from Gartner that show how the biggest marketshare in mobile today, collectively, goes to a plethora of smaller players pushing ahead in developing markets? Today, I met one of them.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) subscription service Music Unlimited launched in the United States, New Zealand and Australia on Thursday, entering a competitive sphere already cluttered by the likes of Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft’s Zune.

While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…

Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, made no secret of his reaction when Stephen Elop called him last week to break the news about Nokia (NYSE: NOK) going with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) instead of MeeGo for its smartphone strategy: “I used the same [four-letter] word that Carol Bartz often uses,” he said,…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz today said an army of editorial curators, not algorithms, who are “always watching” were the “secret sauce” at Yahoo, as she showed off the company’s digital newsstand, dubbed Livestand, during her keynote at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. She said that Yahoo…