Microsoft has tweaked its Bing iPhone app with a couple of new features, just in time for this week’s debut of the iPhone 4. The updated Bing app can tap into your social networks. Microsoft Taking a page from its browser-based cousin, the updated Bing app can now tap into your social networks to deliver …

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet CNET TV Samsung will release its Galaxy Tab tablet no later than the third quarter of this year, revealed J.K. Shin, president of the company’s mobile communications division, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday. Based on the few specs and a photo leaked earlier this month, the Galaxy Tab will sport …

Nokia expects market conditions to impact its annual and second-quarter financial results, forcing the company to trim its sales outlook. The handset maker said Wednesday it now anticipates second-quarter sales for its mobile devices and services division will be at the lower end of, or slightly below, its previous forecast of 6.7 billion euros to 7.2 billion euros ($8.2 billion …

Motorola and Research In Motion have settled their patent dispute over wireless technologies, the companies said Friday. Under the settlement, both companies will set up a cross-licensing agreement in which they will receive patent rights related to certain key technologies and industry standards, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 802.11, and wireless e-mail. The two will also transfer certain patents directly to …

The move to 4G and the longevity of 3G will kick off a rise in the number of devices shipped with baseband cellular modems to more than 2 billion annually in another four years, according to a report released Thursday by In-Stat. Devices with baseband modems–wireless chipsets that enable the connection to cell towers–include traditional mobile phones, smartphones, Netbooks, notebooks, …

Sprint’s first-day sales of the HTC Evo 4G phone were good, but not quite as good as the carrier initially stated. HTC Evo 4G Sarah Tew/CNET Sprint acknowledged Tuesday that it had overstated launch-date sales of the new Evo smartphone–the first 4G phone available in the United States. Sprint, its exclusive carrier, originally said that sales on Friday were three …

By teaming up with the Symbian Foundation, Chinese search engine Baidu is hoping to bring its vision of box computing to the mobile market. On Tuesday, the two companies announced a joint venture in which they would develop a wireless box computing system to work with the Symbian mobile platform. First presented by Baidu last year, box computing bypasses a …

People with Web-browsing phones are spending a lot more of their minutes accessing social networks these days, according to a new study from ComScore. The study, released Wednesday, pegs social networking as the fastest growing activity among people with smartphones and other advanced phones that offer Web browsing, which are also known as feature phones. Among the 69.6 million phone …

Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPad. Amazon With the Apple iPad’s international launch on Friday, consumers worldwide gained access to Amazon.com’s Kindle app and Kobo’s e-reader–apparently ahead of Apple’s own iBook store. Amazon’s free Kindle iPad app is now available to all countries where the iPad is offered, Amazon said. The app lets people download and read e-books from Amazon’s …

Motorola is counting on Verizon to use its marketing prowess to help the handset maker stage a smartphone recovery, and the wireless carrier has promised to do just that, according to The Wall Street Journal. Motorola’s Droid James Martin/CNET Motorola has worked out a deal with Verizon Wireless to make sure some of its new smartphones for Verizon will get …