Google Phone vs. iPhone: Head to HeadSource: smartmoney.com
At a press gathering on Tuesday, Google unveiled the Nexus One, a Google-branded smartphone that will run on the search giant's Android operating system.
Palm Pre to go GSM, cost $399 at Sprint?Source: Electronista
The Palm Pre is already poised to run on more widespread GSM networks but may be more costly regardless of network, according to separate reports.

Word on the street is that Canadian Telecommunications Giant Telus will be making the switch from the CDMA Network to the GSM side of the spectrum.
Promising drug fights Alzheimer's in three waysSource: Reuters
A new drug can be seen as a triple threat in the fight against Alzheimers. This new drug called GSM halts the production of long proteins, prevents them from clumping, and produces shorter proteins which makes longer ones less prone to clumping.
New Blackberry Doubles Screen ResolutionSource: ABC News
Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.
Is Your iPhone More Like 'I Spy'?Source: opensourceinfo.org
Hardware hackers and security experts are claiming that the Apple iPhone might be secretly tracking some user activity. Yet even if those allegations are correct, what exactly it tracks and how much information it discloses remains a mystery.
iPhone re-opened, re-unlocked, and unbricked!Source: pocketpicks.co.uk
Well, that didn't take long, did it? Engadget is reporting that: the wily wags in the iPhone Dev Team have re-opened (or 'jailbroken') the iPhone to allow unofficial apps to be installed; iPhoneSIMFree has re-unlocked the notorious 1.1.1 firmware; and the latter can also …
Jam Cell Phones in the classroomSource: Engadget
This is an engadget post about a GSM signal blocker. I just want a general cell phone blocker for my classroom.
I am so very tired of confiscating phones that "just needed to be turned off."
Too bad these are illegal in the U.S.
-Rob
Cubic Telecom Wants To Give You The WorldSource:
Ireland's Cubic Telecom introduced the concept of a virtual PBX, which allows you to give your mobile phone a local number anywhere in the world. Which will use the company's MAXroam SIM card.
Software That Fills a Cellphone GapSource: The New York Times
VANU BOSE is the son of a fabled engineer, but he garnered no mercy when he presented his big idea at a technical conference in 1996. Mr. Bose's graduate work at M.I.T. involved using software to handle the radio function in a cellular phone.
AT&T is cruising for a bruisingSource: The Inquirer
The iPhone is on, even when its off. An iPhone customer received a $4800 bill from AT&T after taking his iPhone with him on vacation. It seems that even when he thought his phone was powered off, it was regularly connecting to the Internet via foreign network providers.
Why Your BlackBerry Makes Speakers BuzzSource: CIO.com
A blog post on why some BlackBerrys and other mobile phones cause nearby speakers to buzz like enraged honey bees. If you're a smartphone users, you're likely familiar with the dreaded "BlackBerry" buzz. RIM talks about why it happens and how they're addressing it.
The Race for a Mobile TV StandardSource: Business Week
Nokia and Qualcomm are competing to supply a new global norm. The winner could reap billions in new business. Consumers have been down this road before.
Mobile Phone Systems: A Brief Analysis For YouSource: 3gpp-mobiles.info
Why mobile phones sometimes become a challenge today? This happen mainly due to the existence of different incompatible mobile systems worldwide, which often mark out the entire region from others. That is, the technology on which a mobile network works totally differ from other.
A simple way to skin the DRM catSource: chiariglione.org
Others have already pointed out some of the weaknesses of his reasoning which, by the way, would not achieve full interoperability as buyers of Zune and Connect players would still be left out in the cold.

One of my colleagues in the ex-Forrester Mafia is Paul Callahan, who rightfully questions why Apple's iPhone doesn't support high speed, third generation (3G) phone networks and/or High Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA; who comes up with these absurd and untypable acronymns?).
treocentral.com | Commentary: A discussion on the iPhoneSource: treocentral.com
So why does this matter to Treo users? Apple is a new market force that Palm will be competing against, in addition to HTC, Blackberry, and Motorola. The Treo will be now be compared to Apple's phone products.
Apple stuns Macworld crowd with multi-function iPhone deviceSource: Apple Insider
Apple on Tuesday made a bid to change the world once again with the introduction of iPhone, a revolutionary mobile phone that also combines a widescreen touch-control iPod and breakthrough Internet communications device.