Apple In yet another victory for Apple in the mobile arena, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello claims that Apple’s iPad is the fastest growing platform for EA development. The report from gaming industry Web site IndustryGamers interviews Riccitello concerning the role of consoles in today’s gaming climate. Riccitello holds that while the standard operating procedure …

Phone playing up? Can’t work out what’s wrong with the blessed thing? Before you hurl it against a wall — stop! A new LG service lets LG staff fix your phone by reaching into it with their minds. Well, with their computers actually. When you contact LG customer services with a problem, they’ll connect to your phone over 3G or …

The next iPhone will be launching in October, AllThingsD is reporting, and not September, as just about everyone on the planet previously thought. One recent tidbit hinting at a September release for the iPhone 5 was a Gizmodo report that employees of AT&T (a major American network) had been denied holiday requests for the last two weeks of September, “due …

The dual-screen Kyocera Echo has become the latest Android smartphone to receive Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. The update includes many of the standard Gingerbread features, along with pinch-to-zoom support, a Swype 3.0 virtual keyboard, and an improved downloads application. Kyocera also is including a new Eco mode that’s specifically designed for the Echo, which gives users the ability to better manage …

PayPal mobile payment rival Square has said that it now processes approximately $4 million daily in mobile payments, $1 million more than Square advertised it handled at the end of May. Square has clearly sailed beyond any shadows cast by the nasty volley begun by CEO of competitor VeriFone, Doug Bergeron, and answered by Square’s CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey that called …

HTC has filed another lawsuit against Apple in the U.K., further escalating the patent battle between the two smartphone manufacturers. HTC phones such as the Status are caught up in a major patent battle with Apple. Josh Miller Bloomberg reported today that the suit was filed on Friday in London. The suit comes two weeks after HTC suffered a blow …

Verizon Wireless and American Express said today that they’re partnering to let customers order goods through their phone by typing in their phone number. During the coming months, Verizon will start integrating American Express’ Serve, a digital payment and commerce platform, into its phones and tablets. Unlike other initiatives, designed to let consumers pay by tapping their phone to a …

When we wake up, yeah we know we’re gonna be, we’re gonna be the phone fans who wake up next to the new Nokia 500 — but before you walk 500 miles and then 500 more, we need to proclaim this isn’t the hotly anticipated Nokia Windows Phone. No, the 500 is an entry-level touchscreen smart phone running Nokia’s much-maligned …

Can an iPad really take the place of a laptop? For most people it depends on the kind of work they need to do, but one thing is certain: a physical keyboard would definitely help. The CruxCase Crux360 helps your iPad do its best laptop impression. It’s a case and Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard rolled into one, with a cleverly designed …

The proposed debt ceiling bill that Congress is expected to pass in the next day or so will not give the Federal Communications Commission authority to auction additional wireless spectrum. But that doesn’t mean that wireless incentive auctions are dead. Wireless experts in Washington, D.C. say Congress could tack on the authorization for the FCC to conduct spectrum auctions to …

Nokia announced a new smartphone on its Conversations blog today that brought us back to one of the company’s classic operating systems. The Nokia 500 runs on Symbian Anna, which is the latest version of the OS that Nokia unveiled earlier this year. Don’t feel bad if you find the release of another Symbian handset somewhat confusing given the manufacturer’s …

Pack your bags, we’re going on ‘oliday — super-cheap phone network GiffGaff has finally introduced overseas Internet browsing. And is it cheap as frites? Yes and no. Mobile data roaming costs £1.50 per MB to browse the Web, check your email or update social networks in countries in the EU. That’s pretty decent. Outside the EU, however, it’s £5 per …

Switzerland, the nation that gave us army knives and absolutely no popular musicians of note, is bestowing another gift — a glimmer of hope that the Nokia N9 will be heading to the UK. A listing for the MeeGo-powered mobile has popped up on Orange’s official Swiss website, giving an expected launch date of 15 September. That’s no guarantee that …

NTP, the patent company that successfully forced a settlement from Research In Motion over wireless e-mail technology, has gotten the nod from an appeals court on the validity of its patents used in lawsuits against several other smartphone players. RIM was the first to settle with NTP five years ago, but it may not be the last. Research In Motion …

HTC has at last issued a Gingerbread update for the HTC Desire. But disappointingly, updating isn’t as simple as a normal Android update — and it could hobble your mobile. The Android 2.3 update has been seriously squeezed — adjusted and with applications removed to work around the Desire’s memory constraints. As such HTC says it’s for development only, and …