The three-dimensional television revolution ignited this week when Fox Sports coverage of a “friendly” soccer match between the Socceroos and the New Zealand All Whites became the first Australian program broadcast in high-definition 3D. Reaching a potentially wider audience of 3D converts will be tonight’s rugby league State of Origin game, which Channel Nine will …

If the rumors are to be believed, it looks like the next flagship phone from Motorola might be right around the corner. The Internet was abuzz this weekend with rumors of a rather powerful Droid 2 or “Shadow” handset bound for Verizon. The first glimpse of the device came from what appears to be the cover of a “Getting Started” …

AT&T is offering free public Wi-Fi hot spots to help it deal with increasing congestion on its wireless network. On Tuesday, the company launched a free outdoor wireless hot spot in New York’s Times Square. The pilot program will offer free Wi-Fi access to AT&T wireless and broadband customers using smartphones, laptops, and other Wi-Fi enabled devices. AT&T’s Wi-Fi network …

T-Mobile USA said Tuesday that it has added several new cities to a growing list that can get the company’s upgraded 3G network. The upgraded network, which uses a version of the 3G technology called HSPA+ triples download speeds. The service has been deployed in densely populated markets in the Northeast, including New York City; parts of New Jersey; New …

Vlingo‘s voice search app has long had a strong presence on BlackBerry and iPhone. Now it’s laying claim to Android phones, too. While many smartphones have some measure of voice commands baked in, Vlingo’s premium offering ($9.99) adds the capability to launch apps, update your Twitter status, and send e-mail and text messages when you bark orders at it. (We’d …

Samsung has announced the successor to its rugged Rugby handset, dubbed the Samsung Rugby II. Like its predecessor, the Rugby II is military-certified to withstand a harsh environment, plus it has push-to-talk functionality. Other features include improved noise suppression, a 2.0-megapixel camera with Video Share capability, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, and more. It will be available …

Make no mistake: There’s an impending shortage of wireless spectrum, the lifeblood of the mobile market. The trick–and it’s a doozy–is getting that technology into the hands of wireless operators and their customers. It’s a tech issue as well as a public policy and business model issue. In other words, it’s daunting, but not an impossible problem to solve. “There …

Smashing news for Nokia N900 fans — a host of tasty extras are being beamed directly to your mobile today, most notably video calling over Skype, using the N900’s front-facing camera. Best to make sure your hair looks alright before making any calls. The over the air update — catchily titled PR1.2 — adds a bunch of new features, including …

We’ve been using Android 2.2 Froyo for a few days now, and as much as we like the new features — automatic syncing of Picasa Web albums, take a bow — the sweetest treat is its speed. For an incremental release, this feels like a huge improvement — and Android 2.1 was no slouch. But, as the mighty Boston once …

For the moment, Sobees for Facebook is the slickest way to view Facebook content on your iPad. Sobees Let’s face it: the pixel-doubled version of the current Facebook app, well, bites. I’m sure the company will give us an iPad-optimized version at some point, but until then (and possibly even after then), I’m sticking with Sobees. Sobees for Facebook turns …

We got our first glimpse at the Samsung Wave at Mobile World Congress 2010 back in February and now, the first smartphone to run Samsung’s Bada mobile operating system is finally available in select European countries. Those countries include the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, and Samsung plans to bring the Wave to Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East and …

Think about some of the best movie trailers you’ve ever seen; the ones that made you sit up and say, “I gotta see that!” (For my money, they don’t get any better than the trailer for Cloverfield.) A good game trailer can have the same impact. For example, I just got my first look at Daredevil Dave: Motorcycle Stuntman! Immediate …

Like the hamster we got when we were ten, we instantly fell in love with Maemo, the Linux-based operating system on the Nokia N900. But like that hamster, Maemo is destined for a life that is brutish and short — not because of a wayward hoover nozzle (sob), but because it’s been subsumed into Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo platform, seen …

Despite our disdain for the bad spelling, Samsung has decided to go ahead with its third Messager phone for U.S. Cellular. It’s called the Samsung Messager Touch, and as the name indicates, it’ll have a 2.6-inch touch screen in addition to a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Features include Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface, a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, 16GB of microSD memory …

Representatives from network gear supplier Huawei demonstrated last week the company’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband running on the super-fast “maglev” train. The train runs on a magnetic levitation track that stretches for about 19 miles from the center of the Shanghai district of Pudong, China, out to Pudong International Airport. The train reaches a maximum speed about 267 …