Josh Miller/CNET The price of Nokia’s Lumia 900 has been slashed by half in the U.S as the company attempts to lure in customers with heavy discounting. AT&T released new pricing for the phone, cutting the cost of the Lumia 900 from $99 to $49.99. AT&T sells the smartphone exclusively in the U.S. The Lumia …

Now playing: Watch this: The Nexus 7 Tablet 3:49 Gadget fans who preorder Google’s Nexus 7 tablet outside the U.S. will not get full access to all of the tablet’s features as first revealed at Google I/O last month. U.S. buyers will see the full range of content, including TV shows, music, and magazines, whereas the remaining countries — Canada, …

HTC won a U.K. High Court case after a judge today ruled the Taiwanese smartphone maker has not infringed four of Apple’s European-held patents. Judge Christopher Floyd also said that three of the four patents were invalid, according to Bloomberg.  The only patent that was ruled to be valid relates to Apple’s photo-management software, but HTC did not infringe on it, …

Rumors of an Apple iPad “Mini” are starting to get some credible backing. Apple’s component suppliers are gearing up for mass production of a smaller-sized iPad in September, said The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg, meanwhile, similarly reported that a 7 or 8-inch tablet is in the works, and will debut by the …

Ice Cream Sandwich is now installed on more than 10 percent of Android devices, according to Google. Data collected by the search-turned-mobile giant during the 14-day period that ended yesterday shows that version 4.0 of Google’s mobile operating system is now present on 10.9 percent of all devices. The data was collected from Android devices that accessed Google Play, the …

Nokia has a plan in its back pocket should a deal with Microsoft fall through, or the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 software update fail to generate interest, according to Nokia’s board chairman. Speaking on his debut television appearance, F-Secure’s founder and former chief executive Risto Siilasmaa, who became Nokia’s board chairman in May, defended the move to Microsoft’s Windows Phone, …

Toward the end of market trading yesterday, Research In Motion temporarily froze its shares to deliver the inevitable news: the BlackBerry maker is in deep financial trouble and is no longer generating profit. This means RIM is no longer a functioning business. It’s a dead weight around Canada’s neck. The terrifying thing is that RIM saw this coming and did …

Chinese antitrust and competition regulators have cleared Google’s move to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, completing the worldwide regulatory review process. A Google representative confirmed that the Chinese government had given the merger the green light. The deal is set to close early in this coming week. The deal had to be approved by a series of regulators around …