California Gov. Jerry Brown Brown’s Facebook page The newly elected governor of California wants to cut state spending and has starting by calling for the shut-off of half of the state-issued cell phones, some 48,000 devices, by June 1. Gov. Jerry Brown, who will also be returning his own state-issued phone, said that the move …

Google’s Google Places pushes further on Yelp today as it joins iPhone. Like Yelp, the free app, originally released for Android, lets you look up and rate local business. Since it’s Google, the Places app ups the ante with another feature, recommendations supplied by Google’s Hotpot recommendations engine. To start using Places, log into your Google account and begin either …

Armageddon is nigh, smart-phone lovers — O2 has ditched unlimited data bundles for new customers and anyone upgrading their contract. Just like our granddad brags how he used to drive on the motorway before speed limits, we’ll be able to tell our grandkids how we used to stream YouTube on our iPhones without a care in the world. As of …

Unlimited data — smart phones made it, and smart phones can break it. The latest network to give it a bolt through the brains is Vodafone, which will start charging you for going over your data allowance starting on 1 October. In June, Vodafone stopped referring to ‘unlimited’ data in its contracts, and started firing off texts to those of us …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 4 speed test: AT&T versus Verizon 1:11 The Verizon iPhone is finally official, but there are a number of questions that remain unanswered. Will Verizon’s network be able to handle the deluge of iPhone users? Is Verizon’s 3G network better or worse than AT&T’s? Obviously, the Verizon iPhone isn’t out in the hands of the …

As the race for carriers and phone manufacturers surges to push out LTE 4G-enabled phones of the likes that poured from CES last week, we’ve seen some rumors that Samsung is prepping to release a new LTE phone with MetroPCS. The photos of the phone information clearly show that the phone is the Samsung SCH-R910 running LTE (look under Baseband …

If you desperately need to impress a good-looking fellow commuter or frighten an old person with new-fangled magic, Google has the answer: its Goggles app for Android will now solve your Sudoku in less than 30 seconds. Goggles connects your phone’s little camera to the Internet, letting you Google anything you can photograph. Its software analyses your shots and provides …

Intuit is offering some healthy incentives to get small businesses to adopt its GoPayment mobile payment service. Intuit Launched in 2009, GoPayment lets small business owners process credit card payments on the go by using a card reader that attaches to a compatible mobile phone. Normally, the card reader costs money, while the service entails a monthly fee. But as …

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook has shot his latest dark-tinged opus with the Apple iPhone 4. The phone’s 720p camera was employed to shoot nightmarish short Paranmanjang for cinema release. Paranmanjang is a half-hour film that tells the story of a middle-aged man who lands a woman’s body while fishing one night, only for the pair to become entwined between life …

After months of rumors and speculation, Apple has finally brought the iPhone 4 to Verizon Wireless. While much of the hardware remains the same, there are a couple of important differences. Obviously, there’s the change from GSM to CDMA, which means the phone won’t be able to use voice and data simultaneously with current CDMA technology. Also, the Verizon iPhone …