HTC Android smartphones including the Evo 3D, the Evo 4G, and the Thunderbolt contain a flaw that gives Internet-connected apps installed on the devices access to personal information such as text message data, location info, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers, according to a trio of security researchers. The HTC Thunderbolt Sarah Tew/CNET Researcher Artem Russakovskii …

The Federal Communications Commission’s Net neutrality rules will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow and go into effect–barring legal challenges–November 20, according to a report. The commission made its announcement about the dates today, PCMag.com reported. On September 12, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget signed off on the rules, which meant the next step was publication …

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has signed off on the Federal Communications Commission’s Net neutrality rules, which means the rules could go into effect in two to three months’ time–barring legal challenges. The OMB signed off on Friday, Reuters reports. The next step will be publication in the Federal Register, which usually takes anywhere from one to …

Mommy, what’s “paper”? Apple iPad ad Tablets may be starting to steal people away from their laptops, desktops, and even televisions, according to a survey released this week by Google’s AdMob service. The survey–administered by Google’s mobile-centric advertising network, traffic-tracking service, and trend-spotting business–was conducted last month and had 1,430 respondents. It doesn’t specify any particular brand of tablet device. …

The Google-owned Blogger network has released a free app designed to enable people who have built their blogs on the Blogger platform to easily update them from their Android smartphones. Unveiled this week, the program lets people bang out copy, and take photos with their phones, from directly inside the app–and then either publish their words and images straightaway or …

Google is recruiting developers to work in-house on mobile apps for its Android operating system, a report says, as the tech giant continues its challenge to Apple’s iOS and the popular devices that run on it. Benjamin Ling, a Google product-management director, has been supervising an attempt to coax software engineers, user-interface specialists, and product managers into the Google fold, …

Wi-Fi may not be a tree killer after all. Or it might be. In any case, recent headlines about a connection between Wi-Fi signals and an increase in tree sickness were apparently not the place to look for an answer. According to a story in The Wall Street Journal, Dutch researchers have called into question data that prompted the widespread …

As Research In Motion waits for its PlayBook tablet to counter incursions onto its enterprise turf by Apple’s iPhone and iPad gadgets, some of RIM’s enterprise sales force have apparently decided not to wait–they’ve defected to the competition. Stuart Weinberg of The Wall Street Journal did a little sniffing around on LinkedIn and discovered that in the last year and …

Business software maker SAP says it is working to adapt its market-leading enterprise resource management software to Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet and that mobile versions of its software will be ready to go by the gadget’s launch date of early next year. SAP Chief Information Officer Oliver Bussman told The Wall Street Journal that all of the company’s ERP …

AT&T is pitching Apple’s iPad tablet directly to businesses with a discounted wireless data plan, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The move could help AT&T generate more revenue as the market for smartphone plans becomes saturated, the Journal said. It could also–temporarily at least–increase the threat posed by Apple’s mobile operating system to Research In Motion’s …