Barnes & Noble has Amazon’s Kindle Fire directly in its sights. Its latest ammunition: a $199 Nook Tablet with 8GB of memory. The new version of the Nook Tablet–$50 cheaper and with half the memory of the original–now matches the Kindle Fire in price and memory specs. The book retailer hopes the lower price will …

Barnes & Noble is prepping a new version of its Nook Tablet to better compete against Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The book retailer will launch an 8-gigabyte version of its tablet through Wal-Mart on Wednesday, according to The Verge. The Nook Tablet made some noise after its launch as part of a new wave of affordable tablets better suited to competing …

The Simpsons are going mobile in a big way with a free iOS game created by Electronics Art. EA plans to release The Simpsons: Tapped Out to iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad in the coming weeks, the video game giant told CNET. The game will be given away for free, but players will have the option to buy …

Dish Network, sitting on an increasingly valuable stash of spectrum vital to powering wireless data traffic, is waiting on a key waiver from the Federal Communications Commission before deciding on its next move. The waiver, similar to one that the FCC yanked from LightSquared earlier this week, would allow Dish to use its spectrum to build its own high-speed wireless …

Apple was its own worst enemy in the fourth quarter. The biggest competitor to the iPad 2 was the iPhone 4S, market researcher IHS said today in a report on tablet sales in the fourth quarter. The firm concluded that despite other tablet options, what curtailed sales of the iPad 2 the most was customers committing their dollars to the …

Will Motorola Mobility’s smartphones get shut out of the German market? Probably not. But that is the latest breathless headline flying around the Interwebs. A German court ruled that Motorola’s smartphones infringed on Apple’s slide-to-unlock technology, or the swipe that your finger makes on your phone to get it out of its lock screen. As a result, the court has …

Well, that didn’t take long. AT&T appears ready to get back in the hunt for more spectrum, now eying smaller wireless rivals MetroPCS and Leap Wireless and satellite-TV provider Dish Network, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Dallas-based telecommunications giant is just two months removed from the collapse of its deal with T-Mobile USA, which would have given the …

Wireless operator Clearwire’s fourth-quarter results were fairly disappointing, but at least its longer term prospects are starting to brighten. The company, which supplies Sprint Nextel with 4G WiMax wireless service, reported a fourth-quarter loss of $236.8 million, or 81 cents a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $128 million, or 79 cents a share. Revenue, however, more than doubled …

HTC is hoping a different tune may reverse its recent flagging fortunes. The smartphone vendor is working on its own streaming music service, according to a report from GigaOm. The service would purportedly become the default music client on HTC phones and tablets, and pricing and plans are getting worked out. An HTC representative wasn’t immediately available to comment to …

LightSquared today fired back at the Federal Communications Commission, saying the agency’s decision to squash the company’s planned wireless network would harm the American public. But it appears to be too little, too late for the embattled company. The start-up wireless provider was dealt a fatal blow yesterday when the FCC suspended a key waiver that would have allowed it …