Consumers love their applications. Carriers do too, unless the applications are bandwidth hogs. Cell towers like these have struggle to carry all the data being transmitted through millions of mobile applications. Kent German/CNET With carriers trying to clamp down on excessive data consumption, it’s more important than ever for developers to make sure they aren’t creating apps that hog the …

A pair of images surfaced over the weekend for the HTC Vigor, an unannounced Verizon Wireless handset rumored for October. While the pictures show HTC’s branding and a mention of Sense UI, we don’t see Verizon’s logo or a mention of 4G LTE. Considering that we’re a month or more from the expected release, this might simply be a test …

The storm makes its presence felt with fierce winds and torrential downpours. The latest on Irene, from CBS News CBS News brings you breaking news and complete coverage on Hurricane Irene as the storm sweeps along the East Coast. Irene downgraded to tropical storm Hurricane knocks out power to 4 million people and blamed for the deaths of at least …