Correction: An earlier version of this article noted Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility’s revenue in “millions” not “billions”. It has now been corrected. We regret the error. Not brilliant news for Motorola Mobility and its would-be buyer, Google: the handset maker today issued preliminary Q4 results that will fall short of…

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to back those of them facing legal disputes over patents. But that’s not stopping those device makers from shoring up their patent licensing deals, just in case. The latest…

Samsung’s legal setback in Australia—where the courts have now issued a formal, if temporary, injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet after patent claims from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)—is not the only bit of bad Apple news it had yesterday. In the Netherlands, it said that it has made changes to…

We’re not yet into September, and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to announce any events for the autumn, but the public is hungry for Apple news, and nature abhors a vacuum. Enter: more unattributed reports about what we might expect come the next generation of the iPhone. The latest are…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple/Amazon: One solution to the change in charging terms that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has made for in-app purchases has been to put development into web apps. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is hopping on that bandwagon with the Kindle app. (via…

—Microsoft’s 2-D barcodes: Microsoft’s Tag product, which uses 2-D barcode technology in marketing campaigns, says 1 billion Tags have been printed in the past four months, bringing the total to 2 billion Tags printed since its its launch in January 2009. Advertisers have crated more than 100,000 Tag accounts, and…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is doubling down in its patent fight against Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and is hitting Nokia a little closer to home by expanding its lawsuit to Britain. Nokia initially kicked off the legal battle close to a year ago when it filed suit against the iPhone maker in…

So, CEOs will be wandering around, toting iPads with critical business info on, right? Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) think so… I chatted with the consumer publishing division’s SVP Alisa Bowen, who said it’s “the perfect platform to engage with C-level executives” and who outlined the opportunity tablets present for business…

The app announcements have been rolling out all morning in anticipation of tomorrow’s iPad release. Among the initial iPad apps now in Apple’s online store is the WSJ’s app, which is free to download, but costs users for $3.99 per week for access—compared to the $2.69 a week charge for…

Reuters’ mobile journalism project, which is no longer using the catchy “MoJo” moniker, is reprising its Davos roving-reporter experiment at the Democratic and upcoming Republican conventions - but without a cell phone in sight. While its mobile efforts to date - including packages from TV reporter Matt Cowan and equipping…

A Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) reporter will this week embark on an experiment to report the arrival of Tesco in the US with little more than a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95 mobile phone. The news agency has been using the “mobile journalism toolkit”, developed through close partnership with Nokia, for a…