NTP said Friday it has filed a lawsuit against six of the world’s leading cell phone makers, accusing them of infringing on its patents for delivering e-mail to handsets. The company, which successfully sued Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphones, is targeting Apple, Google, HTC, LG Electronics, Microsoft, and Motorola in a …

To deal with the flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the Internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to VeriSign. The U.S. security company, which administers one of the root servers of the Internet, has started a project to deal with the expected increase in bandwidth demand. Project Apollo was …

U.S. Cellular is teaming with TeleNav to bring turn-by-turn navigation to the carrier’s smartphones. On Friday, the carrier announced its Your Navigator Deluxe service that offers such features as voice-guided directions, 3D maps, speech recognition, more than 12 million business listings, and traffic and weather information. Even better, there isn’t an additional fee to use TeleNav as it’s all included …

The clever folks aboard the good ship Omio have posted what they claim is a manufacturer roadmap for a huge number of UK mobile phones. They’ve listed more devices than it’s possible to shake a stick at, so we recommend you check out the article in its entirety, but we’ve selected a few of the more interesting devices for you …

The latest release of Yelp (2.0) landed in the Android Market late last week and it’s a fantastic update. For those few of you who are unfamiliar with the title, Yelp lets users search for places to eat, shop, hang out, work out, and more based on location and reviews from the community. Expecting a simple enhancement to the user …

Ever since June, when we learned of FaceTime, Apple’s two-way video-calling feature for the iPhone 4, we’ve been waiting for Fring to make its competitive move–especially since Fring announced its intention to release the very same features last March. Since Fring, the joint VoIP-and-multinetwork IM client, was still offering only one-way video calls when we pitted it against FaceTime on …

Motorola issued a software update to AT&T’s Backflip this week to address the touch screen, messaging, Bluetooth, and more. Very similar to the Cliq update from a few months back, it’s a minor release designed to improve the phone’s overall performance. Among the changes customers should notice are improvements to battery life, text messaging, device stability, and 3G connections. Other, …

The BBC wants to film the 2012 Olympics in 3D — thrilling news for sport fans, no doubt, but to do that, it would need to support all the platforms its TV is shown on, not just Sky and Virgin. Freeview offers the most challenges, but transmitter and broadcast company Arqiva is working on ways to send 3D over Freeview …

“Attenuation” has become a buzzword ever since issues with touching the iPhone 4’s antenna were first reported after its release. Indeed, on June 24, 2010, Apple defended itself by saying that attenuation is “a fact of life for every wireless phone” and it advised users to hold the handset differently or buy a bumper. As Apple put it, gripping any …

Is T-Mobile preparing to take the Droid X on in a head-to-head battle? It certainly appears that way. According to multiple TmoNews sources, T-Mobile is bumping the release date of its Samsung Vibrant up roughly one week to July 15 instead of July 21 as originally planned. This would pit the Galaxy S series phone in a super-phone showdown, with …

Given Apple’s carefully worded statement from July 2, we weren’t expecting that the coming software update would fix the ongoing reception issues with the iPhone 4’s antenna. So it wasn’t surprising that an Apple Care representative confirmed that belief this afternoon. During our call, the Apple Care rep said the update would address only how bars are displayed in the …

A 2GHz Android phone from Samsung, how to get a free Droid X, and Froyo trounces iOS4 in Javascript speed tests. Plus guest Molly Wood reviews the Kindle for Android app, and we discuss how to wipe the data from your phone. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 6: 2GHz phone coming soon? 40:08 Podcast Your browser does not support the …

A recently leaked road map indicates that T-Mobile has plenty up its sleeve as it pertains to Android over the rest of this year. And really, it’s about time Android’s first carrier gives us something new. According to a document obtained by AndroidSpin, the carrier has at least five more handsets on tap for 2010. In a departure from the …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 4 antenna tests 2:21 Though we’ve kept you informed about the ongoing debate with the iPhone 4’s antenna, we haven’t said what that really means for users. You may see your bars drop when you hold the handset a certain way, but how does that affect the phone’s performance? In data speed and call quality …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Captivate (AT&T) 1:29 It looks like AT&T will be the first one to release one of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones, as the carrier announced on Thursday that the Samsung Captivate will be available starting July 18 for $199.99 with a two-year contract (voice plan and minimum $15 data plan required). The Captivate is AT&T’s …