As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegations over privacy on mobile device use, Carrier IQ has released a new statement to try clarify and defend its position—although some pretty big questions remain about what data…

With 550,000 activations per day, and 200 million activations to-date, Android is fast shaping up to be the world’s biggest OS, but that growth is also attracting a lot of unsavory elements, it seems. McAfee, the IT security specialists owned by Intel (NSDQ: INTC), says that nearly all of the…

So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company’s outspoken founder, has left his role as the CEO and is getting replaced by Tim Jenkins, who has worked for a number of tech…

More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul Allen’s firm Vulcan Capital and Mitsui Global. The money will mainly be used to spin off and develop the company’s AdHaven mobile audience platform division.

Millions of people are embracing free mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Kik as a way to avoid outrageous carrier charges for texting. But now one user says he has evidence that the popular service WhatsApp engaged in an egregious breach of his privacy.

Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s sites, and also how third parties could play a big role in how Facebook goes mobile in the future. Gemalto, a company that makes SIM cards for…

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on squeezing more revenue out of its substantial assets. After a month in which it formed a new business unit, Telefonica Digital, to further this strategy, the operator is rolling out…

With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to forget that in many parts of the world, lower-end devices still reign supreme. One funding round announced today highlights the opportunities that still exist…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Amazon could have two sizes of tablet in mind for a launch: a seven-inch model to come out this year; and a 10-inch design to be released in 2012. The company has also been looking at a redesign of…

Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long way to grow: figures out from comScore today indicate that in the U.S., only around 35 percent of all consumers over the age of…

Even as companies like Facebook and Twitter change the way people think about sending short messages, the SMS text message remains very popular and extremely profitable for wireless carriers. New pricing plans from AT&T (NYSE: T) will force customers to either upgrade to an unlimited plan or turn into text-message…

Attention mobile operators: here’s a cautionary tale for you about what happens when you try to wedge yourself into the app ecosystem created by the likes of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but fail to engage developers.

Wireless carriers are the punching bags of the mobile industry, notorious for holding back innovative services they don’t control to preserve existing profits. Oftentimes they’ve earned that enmity, but making the leap from a voice-oriented world organized around a ten-digit number to a data-oriented world organized around bits and identity…

You’ve seen the stories about how Twitter was used to break the news on Osama bin Laden’s death, and the huge effect the event has had on Internet traffic, with news websites reporting record-breaking traffic yesterday (read more on the Internet traffic spike here). Well, it turns out that impact…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA; the question over iCloud.com and Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) and a new mobile payments service from Buongiorno.

TeePee Games, a games portal still in beta, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Turner Broadcasting Europe, the European wing of the Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner-owned TBS. The investment is a strategic one, and will see TeePee distributing games and providing usage analysis to Turner for games based…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is still getting heat and apologising over updates to its Windows Phone 7 platform, but it is also pushing ahead in another crucial area for it in mobile—one that might prove to be a more successful and natural place for Microsoft as a business in the longer…

With the rise of smartphones, SMS may be losing its cachet as the primary vehicle for mobile content distribution, but there is still a ton of money being made from it—unfortunately, some of looks like it is downright illegal. Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is once again trying to crack down…

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…