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 …

If you can’t view Flash sites directly through your iPhone, why not connect to a remote PC where you can? Cloud Browse delivers Flash content to your iPhone. AlwaysOn Technologies That’s the idea behind the free Cloud Browse app from a company called AlwaysOn Technologies run by developer Lida Tang. Through Cloud Browse, you can connect your iPhone, iPod Touch, …

Google and its Android partners can thank customers in North America for the hot growth of smartphones sporting the mobile operating system. Among all the Android devices owned around the world, 75 percent of them are in North America, according to AdMob’s April Mobile Metrics Report, released Wednesday. That’s followed by 11 percent owned in Western Europe and 12 percent …

Robert Dotson, president and CEO of T-Mobile USA, plans to leave the wireless company in May of next year, after a new chief executive takes up the reins in February. Dotson’s posts will be filled by Philipp Humm, an executive with T-Mobile USA’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, and former CEO of T-Mobile Deutschland. Humm is currently in charge of DT’s …

Seesmic’s new iPhone app. Seesmic With software for the Web, Windows, Android, and the BlackBerry already under its belt, Seesmic has unveiled its first app for the iPhone. The popular social-network aggregator offers you the ability to tap into Twitter and other social networks from one single interface. Its new free app for the iPhone and iPod Touch specifically lets …

The iPhone app formerly known as Tweetie has a new name and a new owner. Twitter’s new official iPhone app. Twitter Twitter hit the iPhone market Wednesday with its first official app, dubbed simply Twitter for the iPhone. But the new app is actually just the 3.0 update of Tweetie 2.0, which the company got hold of after acquiring Tweetie …

Mobile phone and smartphone sales are on a roll, according to figures released Wednesday by market researcher Gartner. In the first quarter, customers worldwide bought 314.7 million mobile phones, a 17 percent increase year over year. Smartphones sales specifically jumped 48.7 percent from the year-ago quarter, as 54.3 million units flew off the shelves. Demand within mature markets and lower …

The number of LTE subscribers around the world will surpass 200 million in another five years, according to a new report released Monday by research firm Maravedis. Mobile operators committed to LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless broadband will pick up more customers over these next five years by offering dual-mode devices that can use both 3G and LTE, says the new …

Hit by a tough market and rough competition, Nokia is hoping that yet another reorganization will shake up the status quo. The Finnish handset maker announced Tuesday that it will reorganize itself into what it calls a “simplified company structure.” To better distinguish its various mobile phones and services, Nokia will revamp its business units into three separate entities–Mobile Solutions, …

Verizon’s customers are a happy lot. AT&T’s? Not so much, still. At least those are the findings of a survey (PDF) released last week by ChangeWave Research that found Verizon tops among cell phone users for customer satisfaction and fewer dropped calls. Of the 4,040 wireless subscribers questioned for the survey in March, 49 percent of Verizon’s customers said they …