iPhone sales have beaten Android sales for the first time in ages, statistics from October suggest, with the release of the iPhone 4S injecting fuel into Apple’s popularity rocket. Data from the incredibly named Kantar Worldpanel ComTech suggests that last month saw Apple nab a 42.8 per cent share of all smart phone sales, compared …

With AT&T’s deal to acquire T-Mobile USA on life support, T-Mobile may need to start considering a Plan B. By itself, T-Mobile is a wireless operator struggling to keep its best customers from leaving. Over the past several months, the carrier has aggressively cut prices and made itself a haven for bargain seekers–all for the sake of sparking a little …

The youth of today love to send those text messages. They love it so much, in fact, that they’re apparently even doing it in their sleep. Slumber expert Dr David Cunnington of the Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia has reported an increasing number of young people falling asleep and then sending bewildering text messages to people in their address …

Once AT&T got past the awkwardness of Thanksgiving, the rest of the weekend went pretty well. The Dallas telecommunications giant said today that new online orders between Black Friday and Cyber Monday rose 15 percent over a year ago, as traffic to its Web site increased by nearly a third. Traffic in AT&T stores also saw a significant hike as …

The LG Optimus 3D and the LG Optimus Black will both be updated to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The South Korean phonesmith revealed the good news in a post on its Facebook page. Earlier this month we heard that the Optimus 2X would be getting Ice Cream Sandwich, and now LG’s other high-end blowers are falling in line. Apart …

More than 90 percent of Americans own a cellphone today, and a growing number of those cellphone users are children. But how young is too young for a cellphone? Cellphone or smartphone for kids? Dear Maggie, This is a two-part question. I’m considering getting a cellphone for my 11-year old daughter for Christmas. A lot of girls in her class …

Research In Motion now aims to support both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets–a break from the company’s previous BlackBerry-only focus. The iPhone 4S may soon be managed by BlackBerry’s server. Apple RIM introduced today BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a mobile device management service that takes advantage of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server technology to track and monitor different phones and tablets. …

Android users looking to replicate the Siri experience have another option now, with the introduction of an app called Cluzee. Developed by startup Tronton and touted as a “talking intelligent personal digital assistant,” Cluzee attempts to step up where other alternatives fall short. The free app is available now for devices running Android 2.1 or higher and has already gotten …

The Bada-powered Samsung Wave 3 has gone on sale in France, though we suspect it could soon be arriving in the UK too. From today the Wave 3 can be caught lining the pockets of French buyers, and will be available to buy in Germany, Italy, Russia and “other global markets” before 2012. That could very well include the big U of …

HTC may not be able to sell smartphones in Germany in the run-up to Christmas, after the patent licensing company IPCom said it would start enforcing an earlier infringement ruling against HTC. The judgment was actually handed down almost three years ago, when a Mannheim court said HTC was infringing on a crucial mobile telephony patent that IPCom acquired from …