Google may not see eye to eye with the Chinese government these days, but the company still has high hopes for its Android smartphones among Chinese users. The search giant’s chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, spoke during a Webcast about the prospects for Android in China in the midst of heated negotiations about the future …

You can now test your fighting prowess using the iPhone as the arena with Capcom’s new release of Street Fighter IV. With its roots in the arcade, the popular game found its way onto the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, and the PC before finally hitting the iPhone and iPod Touch last week. Using similar gameplay and a few of …

Do you sleep with your iPhone? A recent survey found a lot of people who do. Among 200 Stanford University students questioned about their iPhone habits, 75 percent said they fall asleep with their iPhones snuggled next to them. But they’re just as attached to their phones in the daytime. When leaving for school in the morning, 69 percent said …

Palm is hoping its new developer’s kit can lead to better games and richer apps for its smartphone users. Palm Palm announced on Tuesday that a public beta version of its new WebOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is ready for developers to download via the company’s Developer Center Web site. The PDK lets programmers create plug-ins using C or C++ …

China Unicom is working with Apple to finally launch a Wi-Fi version of the iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal. The iPhone hit China in October, but sans Wi-Fi. Chinese regulations had prohibited the sale of any Wi-Fi device that does not use the country’s own wireless standard known as WAPI (Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). As a result, …

Gesture Search for Android smartphones Google Google is giving Android users another method for searching their smartphones: finger-drawn letters. The company has launched a new app called Gesture Search, which lets Android 2.0 users find items by drawing a letter on the screen. Draw an “A,” for example, and all contacts, bookmarks, applications, and songs that begin with an “A” …

On a planet with around 6.8 billion people, we’re likely to see 5 billion cell phone subscriptions this year. Reaching 4.6 billion at the end of 2009, the number of cell phone subscriptions across the globe will hit 5 billion sometime in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The explosion in cell phone use has been driven not …

Many of us take broadband Internet access for granted. But a new government survey paints a different picture of the nation. In a survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 50,000 households across the U.S., 40 percent reported no broadband or high-speed access to the Internet, while 30 percent said they have no Internet access at all. Sponsored …

Motorola ended 2009 on a mixed note, with a profit but drooping sales. For the fourth quarter, the mobile phone maker turned a profit of $143 million, compared with a loss of $3.7 billion in the same quarter of 2008. The 2008 quarterly loss was largely attributed to nonrecurring charges that Motorola was forced to take. Sales for the fourth …

iPhone users can now evolve, or at least their Spore counterparts can, thanks to the release of Spore Creatures for iTunes. Hitting the iTunes market on Monday, Electronic Arts’ Spore Creatures picks up where Spore Origins left off. In that game, your baby swam around the primordial ooze trying to stay alive by eating smaller, defenseless lifeforms and avoiding bigger, …