For all the talk about smartphone shortages — the HTC Droid Incredible, EVO 4G, Motorola Droid X, and Apple iPhone 4 — it seems smartphones aren’t the only mobile devices in danger of short supply this summer. The iPad may be the next supply-chain victim.

Although consumers in some markets have already witnessed short iPad supplies, [...]

AT&T launched a new hot-zone pilot Monday in downtown Charlotte, N.C., to provide supplemental Wi-Fi coverage for smartphone subscribers in an area that consistently experiences high 3G traffic and mobile data use. The wireless carrier also told media outlets that it will be introducing a software patch over the next three weeks to improve the [...]

Apple’s iPhone 4 will ramp up its world tour Friday, reaching new markets in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. The popular but trouble-plagued handset has been available since late June in France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom for the same cost as the U.S. version, $199 for the 16-gigabyte model and $299 for [...]

Jailbreaking may no longer be the appropriate term for downloading unapproved but legally acquired applications onto Apple’s iPhones, in the wake of new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office, which, every three years, reviews exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibiting unauthorized uses of certain [...]

HTC is working to end the summer of the smartphone shortage. After assuring Android-based smartphone users that Samsung was its screen manufacturer of choice, the handset maker is switching to Sony products.

On Monday, HTC announced it will begin using Super LCD display technology in a variety of smartphones, including the HTC Desire and the global [...]

With the supply of current Internet addresses predicted to run out by the end of next year, India has issued orders for a transition to a new Internet protocol. Last week, the Indian government said all Internet service providers and telecommunications providers must be IPv6-compliant by the end of next year, and all government agencies [...]

Amid reports that Apple’s iPhone may soon be sold by rivals T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless, a new poll has found that nearly three-quarters of current iPhone users are just fine with AT&T.

Despite three years of bad publicity about the handset’s connectivity issues with AT&T as its sole U.S. wireless carrier — even before the [...]

To the list of dwindling worldwide resources add Internet addresses. According to experts, the nearly 4.5 billion current addresses aren’t enough, only six percent of available addresses are left, and the Internet will run out of addresses by sometime late next year.

Three main factors are behind the upcoming shortage. One is the [...]

AOL is working to leverage the trends of the times with a new smartphone portal and two Android apps it hopes will capture consumer attention in an increasingly competitive mobile marketplace.

The new portal, m.aol.com, optimizes AOL for smartphones. Meanwhile, an AOL app for Android aims to make it easy for Android-powered smartphone users to access [...]

As promised, Apple is gearing up to give away free bumper cases for the iPhone 4. The cases remedy an issue with the antenna that has caused perhaps more media attention than consumer complaints. Apple also announced a major delay in the release of the white iPhone 4.

Apple set up a web page and deployed [...]

A tablet computer for $35. That’s the estimated retail price of a prototype basic touchscreen tablet developed by the government of India.

The device, which uses the open-source Linux operating system, was unveiled Thursday by Kapil Sibal, India’s human-resource development minister. “This is our answer to M.I.T.’s $100 computer,” he told the Economic Times.

With Apple breezing past Wall Street estimates this week by reporting $15.7 billion in revenue for its third business quarter, the pressure was on Microsoft — and the software giant delivered. Microsoft said Thursday it earned a record $16.04 billion in revenue during the second quarter, driven by the launch of Office 2010 and strong [...]

After downloading the latest version of Skype from Apple’s App Store, iPhone 4 users will have two options for live chats to talk to friends and family without using cell-phone minutes. Skype 2.0.1, recently adapted to use 3G signals instead of Wi-Fi, is now capable of running in the background while other apps are running [...]

Apple’s strong iPhone and iPad sales dazzled Wall Street this week, but an even bigger surprise perhaps came from sales of the company’s line of Mac computers in its third business quarter. The computer maker announced record sales of 3.47 million desktop and notebook products, exceeding the previous quarterly high mark by more than 100,000 [...]

IBM announced Thursday its zEnterprise mainframe server, which it described as “the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe ever.” The Armonk, N.Y.-based company called the new zEnterprise “the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe.” At the same time, the company unveiled a new systems design that allows mainframe, POWER7 and System [...]