Huawei, the Chinese mobile company hoping to make its way to the U.S. and elsewhere, expressed disappointment with the Australian government today for not being included in the country’s National Broadband Network. Speaking before the Australian parliamentary intelligence committee, Huawei Australia chairman John Lord said that his company was “disappointed” to learn that it was …

Acer has inked a deal with China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba, to use its mobile operating system in an upcoming smartphone. Dubbed the CloudMobile A800, Acer’s new smartphone will run Alibaba’s Aliyun operating system. The cloud mention fits with Aliyun’s deep Web integration, offering everything from Internet-based e-mail, Web search, weather updates, and GPS navigation tools. In addition, Aliyun synchronizes …

Research In Motion has several things to worry about. But who knew shelf space was one of them? Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette told All Things Digital in an interview published today that his retail checks indicate “BlackBerry sales were largely unchanged in August versus July; however, we detected meaningfully lower inventory levels versus a month ago.” Translation? Carriers are …

VoIP provider Viber has hit a new milestone. The company announced today that it now has 100 million worldwide users taking advantage of its free phone calls, texting, and photo-messaging services. It’s not clear if those users are actively using the service or have just signed up. Still, the company claims to handle over 2 billion minutes of calls and …

Mobile users are increasingly downloading free apps, a new study from research firm Gartner has found. The company announced today that 45.6 billion apps will be downloaded worldwide in 2012. Out of that, a whopping 89 percent, or 40.6 billion, will be free apps. The remaining 5 billion will be downloaded after users purchase them. Last year, free apps accounted …

Amazon has updated its OS X app with some new features readers should find useful. First up, Amazon’s new 1.10.3 version of Kindle comes with support for more OS X gestures, including panning and swiping. The app now supports Amazon’s Kindle Format 8 books, which deliver some improved formatting options. Heavy readers will be happy to discover that the app …

Alibaba, China’s top e-commerce company, has Android firmly in its sights. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in an interview published yesterday, Alibaba Chief Strategy Officer Zeng Ming said his company hopes to be “as strong as Android in China” with its own mobile operating system, Aliyun. In order to achieve that, however, Zeng needs some help from vendors. Luckily …

HTC has announced a new smartphone for China that comes with a really interesting backside. Dubbed the One SC, the device comes with a 4.3-inch WVGA HD display and support for both CDMA and GSM networks. The handset is running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and comes with 4GB of onboard storage that’s expandable to 32GB with a microSD card. …

Now playing: Watch this: The Lumia 920, Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 device 2:38 Nokia’s recently unveiled flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920, will be launching in November, new reports claim. Earlier today, Reuters reported, citing unnamed European carrier sources, that Nokia plans to launch its Lumia 920 in November. Those sources did not provide Reuters with an exact date. However, …

Google’s Android market is still dominated by Gingerbread. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) versions, which first appeared on the mobile scene in December 2010, are currently running on 57.5 percent of all Android devices, new data posted on the platform’s developers site shows. The newer Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) comes in at 20.9 percent market ownership. Android 2.2 (Froyo) is running …