It was there this month in Apple’s announcement of the iPad Mini, in Google’s marketing of the Nexus 10 tablet, and in an advertisement on Amazon’s home page promoting the Kindle Fire HD. Pixels per inch — the simple measure of a device’s screen resolution — now trumps many other metrics in a device’s product …

Android fans eager to get a look at the latest Nexus smartphones and tablets will have to wait a little longer. Google e-mailed reporters today saying that it was canceling the event because of concerns surrounding Hurricane Sandy. As the storm gathered strength, Google faced mounting questions over whether it would continue with the event as planned. The waterfront pier …

We’ve already seen pictures taken with the upcoming Nexus 10 tablet, thanks to Google’s Vic Gundotra. Now we’re seeing pictures of the device itself. Days before the Nexus 10 is expected to make its debut in New York, new images have surfaced purporting to show the device and the updated version of Android it’s running on. [Note: Monday’s Android event has been canceled …

Microsoft’s big week continued today with a new app release. Xbox SmartGlass for Android hit the Google Play store this afternoon. Microsoft SmartGlass offers a slick second-screen experience for Xbox 360. Developers of Xbox apps can use SmartGlass to let users interact with TV shows, movies, sports and games. The technology, which was first shown off at E3 this year,will …

Apple’s introduction of the iPad Mini this week generated two lines of thinking about competition in the tablet space. The first, articulated by some analysts, holds that lower-cost tablets have nothing to worry about. Reuters collected their comments in an article giving shape to their general lack of concern. The reason? The entry-level Mini’s $329 price, enough to give it …

Doran Else bought his Photon 4G last October, lured by the fast dual-core processor and by the close relationship between Motorola and its new owner, Google. Motorola had recently joined the Android Upgrade Alliance, promising to release operating system updates to all its phones for 18 months following their release. But for Else and thousands of others, those operating system …

For all the talk of revolution at Research In Motion’s developer conference this week, something about BlackBerry Jam Americas felt rather familiar. Think of it this way: a once-mighty tech company, elbowed out of the smartphone revolution by Apple and Android, making a new push to get back into the game. Amid high pressure to deliver, the company puts all …

Research In Motion has had a hard slog over the past year, but is poised to reclaim its spot among the top mobile ecosystems, CEO Thorsten Heins said today during a press briefing at BlackBerry Jam. Heins said the company’s decision to bet everything on its new BlackBerry 10 operating system would allow the company to begin growing its user …

Carrier testing on new BlackBerry devices will start next month, Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins told developers today at BlackBerry Jam Americas. “BlackBerry 10 is on track,” Heins said. “Our sales forces are getting ready. Better devices are in testing.” Related stories RIM pushes BlackBerry 10 into the spotlight at BlackBerry Jam RIM fixes BlackBerry outage that hit Europe, …