Square has added to its list of retail partnerships with the announcement today that AT&T will begin selling the Square Card Readers at its stores. The mobile payments startup’s credit card reader will be offered at 1,000 AT&T stores, making Square available at more than 20,000 retail locations in the U.S., including at Apple stores, …

LG took the wraps off the latest addition to its L-Series line of smartphones this evening. Featuring Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich), the Optimus L9 will sport a 1GHz dual-core processor and 4.7-inch IPS display. The 9.1-millimeter-thick L9 will also feature a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a high-density 2150 mAH SiO+ battery. The new phone, which is expected to …

Even though Apple’s next iPhone is widely expected to feature 4G LTE connectivity, a new survey finds that nearly half of U.S. consumers feel they don’t need the speedier wireless networks. Nearly 47 percent of those surveyed by market analyst Piper Jaffray don’t feel they need access to a 4G LTE network, while another 26 percent said they thought all …

Verizon Wireless is reportedly getting ready to give Microsoft another chance. The carrier is plans to offer a new Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia smartphone this year, its first Windows device since May 2011, a person with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. Nokia and Microsoft have scheduled a press event for September 5 in New York, and although Verizon won’t …

It appears the days of subsidized pricing for tablets are over at AT&T. The carrier will no longer offer discounted, on-contract sales of tablets, according to a document published by Engadget. The document, which appears to be a briefing on new in-house sales policies, seems to indicate that today is the last day it will offer subsidized pricing of slates …

Hewlett-Packard is rebranding its WebOS Global Business Unit as a new company called Gram, according to an internal company e-mail. Penned by HP Senior VP Martin Risau, the August 11 memo obtained by CNET encourages employees to tell outsiders little about the company other than it is operating in stealth mode: Thank you for all of your enthusiasm at yesterday’s …

As deployment of 4G LTE networks increases, LG Electronics is reaping the benefits. The South Korean handset maker announced this evening that it had sold 5 million LTE smartphones worldwide, with 1 million of the handsets sold in July alone. The Optimus LTE — dubbed the world’s first HD LTE smartphone by LG — was the most popular LG LTE …

Microsoft has temporarily ceased publishing of new apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace while it grapples with a bug that is preventing some users from downloading or updating apps. An issue with the digital certificates used to sign apps has prevented some phones from installing some apps for the past several days, the company said today. A Microsoft investigation revealed …

As troubled Taiwanese phone maker HTC retreats from markets in Southeast Asia and South America due to declining market share, the company is ramping up for a big push in China. The company, which is struggling with intense competition from Apple and Samsung, is looking to China to help turnaround the company’s lagging sales after increasing its market share in …

Now playing: Watch this: Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet 4:26 Barnes & Noble announced a price cut this morning for its line of Nook tablets in an apparent attempt to better compete with the Nexus 7. The bookseller’s 16GB Nook Tablet is now priced at $199, a $50 price cut from its previous $249 price tag, while the 8GB model’s …