Verizon announced today that its first 4G smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt, will be available starting March 17 for $249.99 with a two-year contract. Announced at CES 2011, the Thunderbolt has been one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year so far, as it’s the first phone to take advantage of Verizon’s LTE network, which …

Apple may have sold as many as 1 million iPad 2 tablets over its launch weekend, although the company hasn’t yet announced an official milestone. Some early buyers are reporting issues with the hardware, however, with “bleeding backlight” issues leading some to seek replacements from Apple. How many iPad 2s were sold? Nobody knows for sure, and industry analyst estimates …

One-time Skype competitor Qik has released its latest app for video communications: Qik Video Connect for iPhone. The new program expands on Qik’s work with video calling and broadcast. The app offers two-way video calls, and lets you record video mail. Qik’s live broadcasting skill is present in the feature that lets you post a live link to Facebook and …

Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame: Steve Jobs gives music a bad name. That’s according to poodle-haired rocker Jon Bon Jovi, who blames the Apple boss personally for “killing the music business”. Describing his average day to The Times (paywall link), 1980s stadium-filler Bon Jovi laments how kids today are missing out on the music-buying experience of his …

One of the highlights of Sony’s TVs and Blu-ray players this year has been the inclusion of Bravia Internet Video. The service allows access to a multitude of online video on your home-cinema equipment. Now Sony has announced the SMP-N100 network media player, which offers the same service for people without any of the aforementioned hardware — and potentially for much less …

Unlimited data will soon be a thing of the past for all AT&T customers, as the company confirms it will put a cap on data usage for its DSL and U-verse broadband services. The blog Broadband Reports confirmed over the weekend that AT&T will introduce a data cap for its broadband services. Customers who exceed a monthly limit of 150GB …

The Apple iPad 2 has hit eBay UK and is already demanding silly money. The new iPad hit US shops on Friday, with profit-minded moneygrubbers and early adopters looking to cash in and show off. The highest we’ve seen comes from some muppet in Chicago who we won’t dignify with the publicity, offering his 16GB model for £124,000. Surely no-one …

When Samsung took the wrappers off its Galaxy S II smart phone at Mobile World Congress, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread software was one of its key features. Worried that your older Galaxy S was being left out of the Gingerbread party? Fear not: the update is on its way to the latter handset this month. Well, it is in Romania. …

The T-Mobile Sidekick as we once knew it may be gone forever, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the franchise. Far from it actually. T-Mobile dished out fresh details about the upcoming Sidekick 4G this evening, and the smartphone mixes a bit of the old with the new to offer something that’s both familiar to Sidekick fans and …

Forget Apple AirPrint — you can now print to any printer connected to a Windows computer from your mobile phone or tablet, including the iPhone and iPad. The bringer of this papery bounty is Google Cloud Print, which beams documents from your mobile Web browser to your printer, via you computer. To use it, install the latest version of Google’s Chrome …