Boy Genius offered a load of dish Monday on Verizon Wireless’ roadmap through 2010 and 2011. Some of the rumored devices we’ve heard about already, but not everything has been discussed before. According to the tipster, Verizon will have a Motorola Droid Pro global phone by November, two other global handsets from Samsung and HTC, …

O2 is offering five BlackBerrys on pay as you go, making it easier to get your hands on a smart phone without signing up to a long contract. Cynics among you might say it’s also a good way for the network to clear old stock and make way for new BlackBerrys. The devices on offer include the BlackBerry Curve 8520 …

Research In Motion’s top-notch security is both a blessing and a curse for the company as governments in some key emerging markets, where RIM is looking for growth, threaten to block the BlackBerry service over national security concerns. Last week, governments in several countries including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and India threatened to shut down BlackBerry e-mail …

Net neutrality supporters say they’re unhappy that the Verizon Communications and Google proposal for new Net neutrality rules does not go far enough. On Monday the companies announced a joint proposal that outlines a legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers. The companies have been working together on the Net neutrality issue for almost a year. In October, they issued a …

Madden and the iPad: Perfect together? EA Video game football on the go used to be a challenging proposition for a mobile armchair quarterback. Nintendo’s handhelds have never made great versions of Madden. The PSP has a superior iteration, if you’ve got a PSP. The door opened up to a lot more folks with the iPhone version of Madden that …

CEOs from Google and Verizon Communications on Monday announced a proposal to policymakers for keeping the Internet open. The companies jointly suggested a legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers. The major breakthrough in the proposal is an agreement that the nondiscrimination clause that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as part of its regulatory efforts would be enforceable. “We agree …

It’s not the BlackBerry Torch, but T-Mobile’s getting a new BlackBerry pretty soon. On Monday, the carrier announced that in the coming weeks it will add the RIM BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 to its lineup, but pricing was not released at this time. Much like its predecessor, the Curve 8520, the Curve 3G is an entry-level smartphone but adds 3G …

Pictures and a video of a rumoured successor to the HTC Desire have been leaked on the Web. Under the name HTC Desire HD and running Android 2.2, the handset is pictured on a Hong Kong forum with a large screen but no front-facing camera. It also goes by the name HTC Ace and is reported to have 4GB of …

Music-streaming service Spotify has been pipped to a US launch by Rdio, a new stateside equivalent from the people behind Skype. Rdio is subscription-only, but cheaper than Spotify’s UK offering: $9.99 (£6.30) per month for unlimited streaming to your desktop and mobile, or $4.95 (£3.10) for tunes to just your PC. The people behind it are the same minds who …

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has delivered a self-congratulatory oration on the sales figures of Android smart phones and his wide-eyed wonder at the Information Age. Speaking at this week’s Techonomy conference, Schmidt bragged unashamedly that 200,000 Android smart phones are being sold each day — twice as many as two months ago, according to Engadget. Though these figures have not …

Rumored for an October release, the HTC Desire HD made an appearance over the weekend. The smartphone, which also carries a code name of “Ace,” is expected to run Android 2.2 and feature a 4.3-inch touch screen, a 1GHz processor, and an 8-megapixel camera. Other details include 4GB internal memory, HD video playback, XviD video support, SRS surround sound, and …

The Apple engineering executive who oversaw the development of the iPhone 4 has left the company just weeks after it was forced into a humiliating climbdown over problems with the phone’s antenna. The exit of Mark Papermaster, who joined JobsCo from IBM just over a year ago, was confirmed by Apple. It didn’t provide any more details. The latest development …

If you’re in the mood for a slider phone, then LG has one for you in the form of the GU295. This sleek handset is available from AT&T and has features like a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, a music player with access to AT&T Mobile Music, text and multimedia messaging, and 3G support. The LG GU295 is very affordable at …

Absent-minded staff of the BBC and its subsidiaries lost 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 BlackBerrys in the last two years. The losses were revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the curious Georges at IT security firm Absolute Software. The Beeb’s bean-counters valued the laptops at £219,000 (that’s £1,500 each, amazingly), the mobile phones at £12,913 and …

Yoko Ono and the surviving Beatles have yet again ruled out the band’s arrival on iTunes. In better news, Apple has introduced a section of the iTunes App Store that kind of, sort of, lets you try out apps for free before you buy them. It collects together ‘lite’ versions of apps — that is, free sample versions of paid-for …