Visual voice mail company YouMail claims that T-Mobile USA had its application removed from Android Market, in what could be seen as the latest example of carrier influence over the mobile business. YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said his application was pulled without notice. Android’s support team sent him a note explaining that T-Mobile had requested …

Now playing: Watch this: App of the Day: Wind Up Knight 0:40 Welcome to CNET Australia‘s App of the Day, where you can see some of the coolest, silliest and most useful apps in action. Today, we’ve got a 3D side-scrolling action game that looks so good you might expect to find it on Xbox Live Arcade. Wind-up Knight (Free)

Yamaha has unveiled its AV Controller App 2.0 for Android and iOS devices. The app is designed to let users not only control Yamaha receivers and Blu-ray players wirelessly but also stream music to them via DLNA and from a mobile device. The new app also offers multizone functionality, enabling users to control music in any zone, in addition to …

Whispers of a real Apple TV have been slowly climbing the rumour chart for years. It began when Steve Jobs first announced a small set-top box to stream your iTunes library to the living room, which grew into a solution for streaming movies online. Jobs said the pocket-sized TV box was merely a hobby for Apple, and it was easy …

Now playing: Watch this: Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) 4:51 The Ice Cream man has finally arrived. Just two days ago, CNET’s San Francisco team got its hands on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the flagship smartphone that’s launching Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. More full-on visual revamp than simple update, an OS bump this deep and broad makes (as I’ve …

Article updated: 12/7/11 to answer more questions. Yesterday, CNET’s reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich (or “ICS”), the brand-spankin’-new operating system it’s running on, burst forth. Moments later, the questions flooded in. Justifiably, there’s a lot you want to know. Here, I’ll answer some of the most frequently asked questions I’ve received over Twitter, Google+, and …

Verizon Communications considered buying Hulu when the streaming-video site was shopping itself around to potential acquirers earlier this year. Hulu was just one of the online video options Verizon looked at, CEO Lowell McAdam said at a UBS investor conference today in New York. “We continue to look at alternatives,” he said during a one-on-one discussion onstage, which was Webcast. …

Sony Ericsson brought another unlocked Android smartphone to U.S. consumers this week with the release of the Xperia Active. Features include Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, a 5-megapixel camera, and a scratch-resistant 3-inch display capable of tracking wet finger touches. What’s more, the Xperia Active can also withstand tough weather and climate conditions including a dunking in 3 feet of water for …

After a Chinese judge rejected Apple’s lawsuit against Chinese manufacturer Proview Technology for illegally using the iPad name, a countersuit could be heading Apple’s way to the tune of $1.5 billion. According to Chinese newspaper The Southern Metropolis Daily (via Reuters), the iPad name had already been legally registered as a trademark in China (as well as several other countries) …

The pay-TV war between Cablevision and Verizon Communications just got a little uglier. Cablevision came out swinging, filing a lawsuit yesterday in a New York court, alleging that Verizon was using old Federal Communications Commission data to bash its Internet service in its Fios commercials. The two have been tussling fiercely ever since Verizon introduced Fios to the New York …