T-Mobile G2 teaser page launched

Another Android flagship phone will be first to use T-Mobile's HSPA+ network.

T-Mobile launched the first Android mobile phone, the G1 or HTC Dream, on October 28, 2008.  It was put out to pasture last month but it looks like T-Mobile has something to fill that void.

T-Mobile has put up a teaser site for a new 'G2'.

The site only says that the G2 will be the first phone on T-Mobile's MORE

iPad supply catching up to demand

Shipping delays have quietly shrunk from 5-to-7 business days to 3-to-5 days

Photo: Robert Occhialini via Flickr

[UPDATE: As of Monday, Aug. 23, iPads were shipping within 1-to-3 business days.]

The iPad shortages that delayed the launch of the iPad 3G and pushed back the international roll-out by a month have finally started to ease.

In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Susquehanna Financial's Jeff Fidacaro notes that iPad shipping delays, which MORE

Apple still gets 55% of mobile ad hits

But Android is gaining fast, up 690% since January according to Millennial Media

Click to enlarge. Connected devices include handhelds that can access the Web but are not phones (e.g. iPad, iPod touch, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, etc.). Source: Millennial Media.

The business of selling ads on smartphones and other handheld devices is growing like gangbusters, but tracking it got a bit trickier after two of the biggest mobile ad MORE

Google having trouble landing the big fish for GoogleTV?

A report tonight says that Google hasn't convinced any of the bigger network executives to sign up for their new service, set to debut in the coming months.

One of the three areas which Google (GOOG) sees significant expansion over the next few years is in the $70 billion/year U.S.  television advertising market.  With its GoogleTV product, it now has the platform to sell content against advertising.  But can it get top MORE

Android less about money, more about iPhone disruption

James Gosling, who is often called the Father of Java, has been chiming in on the recent litigation between Oracle and Google.

Gosling in 2008, CC License

There are some alternative narratives that are noteworthy in Gosling's recent blog posts. Namely that Google's Android project was started as more of a defense against Apple (AAPL) rather than a new revenue opportunity for Google (GOOG). He recalled meetings with Google when MORE

Android gets Retina Display for October?

Is LG shipping some of Apple's Retina Displays over to the Android camp?

Steve Jobs said at this year's Apple WWDC,

"You can't make an OLED display with this type of resolution right now. Retina display is going to set the standard for displays for the next several years. We don't think anybody's going to come close."

While Samsung thinks its Super-AMOLED screens are better, another Android maker is going to be picking up MORE

Blackberry Torch: half price claims half baked

I can't say how well the Blackberry Torch is selling, but Amazon prices are no indication.

AllthingsD nabbed an earlier PCWorld story this morning stating that the Blackberry Torch was in trouble because Amazon had discounted its price to $99.

#FAIL

I have no idea how successful the Torch has been since its launch, but Amazon (AMZN) discounts mean absolutely nothing. Amazon discounts every single phone it carries. Analysts at RBC Capital Markets and Stifel MORE

Meetup wants to be Facebook for the real world

The social networking site is expanding beyond its web domain by introducing widgets to encourage impromptu meet ups. The media shy CEO explains his strategy to Fortune.

Interview by Alex Kantrowitz, contributor

See those Facebook "Like" buttons all over the web? If Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman has his way, his Meetup Everywhere buttons will be next. The New York-based social networking site, which currently has around 79,000 groups of people with MORE

Is the iPad now cannibalizing the Mac?

An analyst sees the first sign of trouble in July's retail sales data

Amid the good news for Apple (AAPL) in the NPD Group's report on domestic retail sales for the month of July, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty spots what she thinks may be a small dark cloud.

In a report to clients issued Monday, Huberty notes that sales trends for the broader PC market -- which includes Apple and everybody else MORE

Oracle wasn't always a patent troll

Times have changed since Larry Ellison's company officially 'opposed the patentability of software'.

Photo Credit: AP

A lot of information is coming out of the woodwork now that Oracle (ORCL) is suing Google (GOOG) for patent infringement.  One of many gems comes from Groklaw. Oracle's 1994 patent policy as presented in testimony at USPTO hearings that year (emphasis mine):

Oracle Corporation opposes the patentability of software. The Company believes that existing copyright law MORE