Android’s US market share has shot up since the start of the year, with a prodigious 886 per cent rise in sales catapulting it to the most popular smart phone OS in America, according to one analyst. Google’s smart-phone platform surpassed both Apple and BlackBerry-manufacturer RIM, the previous market leader, for the quarter. Canalys says …

Broadband flogger TalkTalk is to launch its own mobile phone network this autumn, after doing a deal with Vodafone. Despite Ofcom finding that TalkTalk, formerly part of Carphone Warehouse, had the slowest Internet speeds of any major British ISP, it’s still the second biggest provider in the UK. Now it wants to offer a mobile service to its 4 million …

Apple has taken down videos from its US Web site that demonstrated antenna problems on rival handsets. Apple last month released a gallery and video demonstrating the signal problems occuring on a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and a HTC Droid Eris (among others), in response to criticism of the iPhone 4’s ‘Death Grip‘ antenna problems. Many industry watchers were not convinced, …