The biggest updates from iOS 5 are for the iPhone and iPad, but the Apple TV also received a few improvements this afternoon. As expected, the latest update adds AirPlay mirroring, which streams exactly what’s on your iPad or iPhone’s screen directly to your Apple TV. Apple’s new cloud photo storage service, Photo Stream, was …

I want a trio and I want one now: a trio of new BlackBerry smart phones that is. The new BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry 9810 and Torch 9860 were officially unveiled today by BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, along with international versions called the Bold 9930 and Torch 9850. The Bold 9900, pictured top left, sports a Qwerty keyboard as …

A video kiosk running on Sprint’s network on display at the CTIA Enterprise & Application show. Roger Cheng/CNET SAN DIEGO–In case you didn’t know, connected devices–or gadgets with a built-in cellular connection–are a big thing. They’ve been a focus here at this year’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications show. AT&T executive Glenn Lurie called it “the next big thing” in the …

Oh to be in Germany — some lucky customers who pre-ordered their iPhone 4S have received them a full three days early, posting proof online last night, reports MacRumors. Macerkopf.de is the main culprit, with one buyer posting a series of pictures of the hardware as well as screenshots. One shows the handset resting on the packaging, as well as …

SAN DIEGO–AT&T’s lineup of 4G LTE smartphones will be thinner and more power-efficient than current devices on the market, Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T’s wireless and consumer unit, told CNET today. The company’s first 4G LTE smartphones, which will launch in the fourth quarter, will use a new technology that allows for phones with a slimmer profile …

Now playing: Watch this: Cadillac CUE 4:45 SAN DIEGO–Cadillac has introduced a new central instrument panel that features touch-screen technology popularized by smartphones and tablets. The fully capacitive faceplate has an 8-inch touch screen that utilizes multitouch gestures to interact with it. Cadillac says this sets it apart from other car in-dash units that have an overabundance of buttons and …

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has still not fully restored e-mail, messaging, and Web service to more than 10 million customers in Europe, the Middle East, parts of South America, and Africa after a disruption at one of its network operation centers yesterday. A BlackBerry outage, which began on Monday around 10:20 a.m. BST, has resulted in limited access to …

Polycom today unveiled a new videoconferencing application, RealPresence Mobile, that will run on the iPad 2 and Android tablets. The app runs on Polycom’s RealPresence platform, which runs its standard videoconferencing rooms and terminals that include larger high-definition televisions and speaker systems. The idea is to encourage even more videoconferencing use by enabling the tablets to talk with the larger …

Vodafone and Optus both announced iPhone 4S pricing over the weekend, in preparation for the phone’s launch this Friday. Both telcos will offer Apple’s three storage variants for the updated iPhone, plus an 8GB version of last year’s iPhone 4. Vodafone offers the cheapest $0-upfront iPhone, with a 16GB iPhone 4S with no added monthly repayment on an AU$59 plan …

SAN DIEGO–Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said the wireless industry can help get the troubled economy back on track. “Mobile has a direct and powerful impact on efficiency, productivity, and the economic performance of any business in this country,” Hesse said during his keynote address at the CTIA Enterprise & Application conference today. Hesse, Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, …

Translator, currency converter, alarm setter… it seems there’s no limit to Siri’s abilities. But here’s one we didn’t know about: comedian. Apple’s first demo showed if you asked Siri what it was, it’d reply it was a “humble personal assistant.” Well now a video has surfaced online of one lucky iPhone 4S owner experimenting by asking Siri some slightly unusual …

Now playing: Watch this: T-Mobile SpringBoard 1:36 Just when you thought the world didn’t need another 7-inch Android tablet that few would end up buying, here comes the T-Mobile SpringBoard, the 7-inch tablet you’d do well to look at, for the right price. Announced just before CTIA officially kicked off in San Diego, the SpringBoard offers quite a bit–“4G” speeds, …

Nokia World is still a couple of weeks away, but the leaks they just come on a-comin’. Now two ads have leaked to Pocketnow showing off the tile-based user interface that can only be the Windows Phone operating system. And the big news is the handset known as the Sea Ray will be known as the Nokia 800, if the …

Cricket, wasting no time between Android announcements, unveiled its next smartphone today in the Samsung Transfix. Running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and featuring a sliding QWERTY keyboard, the Transfix is powered by an 800MHz processor. Other notable specs include a 3.2-inch display and 3.2-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, and the requisite connectivity package. While the hardware may not appeal to …

BlackBerry Messenger is back online at last. BlackBerry maker RIM has finally rectified the breakdown that saw BBM outages spring up across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “Yesterday, some BlackBerry subscribers in the EMEA region experienced delays with BlackBerry services. The issue was resolved and services are operating normally,” RIM has said. “We apologise to those customers who were …