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MTV Networks’ latest experiment with the minisodes format, Valemont, kicks off on-air and online Tuesday with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) cell phones playing a pivotal role in the plot as well as the…

O2’s exclusive iPhone distribution deal in the UK will come to an end later this year when Orange becomes the second UK operator to sell Apple’s smartphone. No date or price has been set so far but…

Just as it’s shutting its website behind a paywall, political magazine The Spectator is also launching a paid-for iPhone app with a difference - it, too, is based on a subscription.

The…

After nearly a week of radio silence since the first rumour of the deal, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has now confirmed it’s acquiring Dopplr, the two-year-old social network for international…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) said today that iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded more than two billion apps since the store launched in July 2008. In addition, there are now more than 85,000 apps…

The Associated Press Stylebook is pretty much a required fixture on journalists’ desks, but with today’s release of the reference work as an app for the iPhone and iPod touch, it just got a lot…

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»  Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is planning to sell the Palm Pre for $20 less than Amazon’s $100…

Ringtone sales cratered last year—and by the looks of the latest stats from Nielsen RingScan, 2009 will bring more of the same. Sales are already down 23 percent, per Billboard. Meanwhile,…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has iTunes as the billing mechanism on the App Store, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has partnered with PayPal for BlackBerry and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) uses its own check-out…

Want to order room service, make a spa appointment, or even just get fresh towels at a hotel, without having to speak to a single staff member? Yes, there’s an app for that. The Hotel32, a new…

Nokia’s portal for its mobile services, such as maps, emails and music, is appropriately called Ovi, which means ‘door’ in Finnish. But that’s too close to a name being used by a Brazilian telecom…

As recently as earlier this month, the FCC’s top broadband official said when it comes to spectrum, “there is not enough of it.” So, it’s possible U.S. regulators might just fall for this:…