Amazon’s Kindle Fire has managed to do what many other Android tablets have failed to do: drum up interest from developers in North America. Among developers surveyed by Appcelerator and IDC, 49 percent said they considered the Kindle Fire their primary target. It narrowly beat Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab, which garnered 48 percent of the …

If you’re an avid iOS 5 calendar user, this tip is for you. A beautiful detail in the iOS 5 calendar app allows you to quickly scroll to future or past dates to make your app usage more efficient. Once again, Apple’s attention to detail, especially when concerning the user experience, shines through. For anyone who uses the calendar app …

Less than half of app users have ever actually paid money for an app, according to research. New figures reveal 46 per cent of phone and tablet users who have downloaded apps have stuck with free apps rather than forking out. US researchers at Pew Research say that means just 13 per cent of all adult US mobile phone users …

O2 is bringing 4G connections to London, as part of a nine-month trial that will see a lucky thousand or so individuals equipped with speedy mobile Internet. The test starts today, ahead of the Ofcom 4G spectrum auction in 2012 in which networks will buy up slices of the higher-speed spectrum. O2 will be pumping out 4G over the 2.6GHz spectrum …

The security protocol that enables Siri to communicate with Apple’s servers and return information via speech recognition has been cracked by developer Applidium. What does that mean? In a nutshell, according to Applidium, “anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!” The technology that Siri uses to communicate with Apple servers is not HTTP, as many …

The Samsung Galaxy Note is already on sale SIM-free here in the UK, but now O2 has emerged as the first operator featuring the phone on its website. As spotted by Engadget, the Galaxy Note has popped up on the network’s website in the ‘Coming Soon’ section, with November listed as the release date. Clicking the link sadly doesn’t reveal …

When Alec Saunders put up his e-mail address while on stage at Research In Motion’s developer conference last month, it wasn’t just a showy stunt. RIM’s head of developer relations, Alec Saunders. Research In Motion In fact, he spent the entire following weekend responding to e-mails from curious developers. “My wife wasn’t too happy with me,” he quipped. Saunders intends …

Google may have just dropped a mobile device management bomb on plans by Research In Motion–as well as about 25 other vendors–with an effort to manage multiple diverse devices in the enterprise. At a powwow at Google’s headquarters, Dave Girouard, chief of Google’s enterprise efforts, said the company will layer in mobile device management into Google Apps. Google Apps will …

Now playing: Watch this: Kindle Fire: your questions answered 34:42 No matter how inexpensive Amazon.com makes its Kindle Fire tablet, it’s no good to you if it doesn’t do what you want. In this blog post, I’m rounding up all the questions I’ve received from CNET readers about the Kindle Fire and answering them to the best of my knowledge. …

Data-centric UK network Three is now taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and has confirmed pay as you go pricing for the 4.65-inch smart phone. If you’re wondering how much it will it cost you to secure the Ice Cream Sandwich-sporting blower on Three, expect to splash out £34 per if you fancy signing up to a contract. Dismayingly, …

HTC is hoping a little horsepower will spark some interest in its tablet offering. The Taiwanese mobile device manufacturer is expected to unveil a quad-core-powered tablet in February at Mobile World Congress, Digitimes reports, citing a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. HTC declined to comment. In the same boat as just about everybody else in the mobile industry, HTC hasn’t been …

Samsung DoubleTime (photos) +5 more See all photos Samsung still isn’t releasing information about the pricing or availability of the forthcoming Samsung DoubleTime, but the company did bring the phone to our CNET offices in New York for some glamor shots. What makes this Android 2.2 Froyo handset distinct is its double-screen design. Instead of sliding out a keyboard for …

Apple’s iOS 5 sure does have its problems, doesn’t it? (Too bad the recent iOS 5.0.1 update didn’t fix most of them.) My wife’s iPhone 4S, for example, definitely suffers from the no-audio-on-outgoing-calls bug. And my mom lost all her Camera Roll photos after installing iOS 5 a couple weeks ago. Let’s talk about the latter problem, which can definitely …

Apparently Apple’s iPhone 5 really existed, but the company scrapped it at the last minute, according to an industry source speaking to Business Insider. The rumour goes that Apple was all set to unveil the iPhone 5 but decided to go with the iPhone 4S instead, changing its mind just three months before the phone’s official October launch. The source …

Samsung has hit back at rumours that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus had been delayed until December, today confirming that the 4.65-inch smart phone is on track for its 17 November release. “Samsung can confirm that the UK launch date for the Galaxy Nexus is the 17th November.” the South Korean tech giant told us, in a statement as brief as …