For those who like to keep their finger on the throbbing pulse of the planet at all times, your iPhone can be a powerful ally, plugging you into a non-stop news pipe of current affairs, sport, celebrity gossip and more. You could, of course, just fire up Safari and open a boring old website, but …

Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been leaked on video, showing a glimpse of a redesigned, green-tinged user interface. The video, from Google’s Hong Kong-based YouTube account, has since been removed — but happily, the Android Police blog points us to another YouTube copy, which you can see below. Since we’re waiting on tenterhooks to bask in the sweet smell of freshly …

If you hadn’t noticed from all the advertisements on TV, the age of 4G wireless is here. Verizon Wireless will be the latest company to launch its shiny, new 4G network. Starting Sunday, roughly 110 million people in 38 cities will have the opportunity to subscribe to this new generation of wireless service from the nation’s largest cell phone operator. …

RIM has bought The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a user-interface design company that’s responsible for some downright kerr-azy mobile phone interfaces. TAT interfaces are used in mobile devices and in-car systems, but we love their out of the box concept designs. For example, TAT designed a UI for the Synaptics Fuse, a concept phone that has grip-sensitive sides and a touch …

Yes, that’s John Williams and Philip Glass being mixed. Invite me over to DJ at your own risk. Screenshot by Scott Stein/CNET I’m not a musician, nor am I a DJ. I do fantasize about it, though, hence my obsession with DJ Hero, and my amateur songcrafting in GarageBand. I’d never buy a full-fledged turntable, nor would I know what …

U.S. Cellular rings in the holiday season with three affordable prepaid plans that will make messaging fans happy. They are $29, $39, and $49 respectively, and all include unlimited messaging. The $29 per month plan has 200 minutes, the $39 option has 400 minutes plus 5GB of mobile surfing, and the $49 plan has 1,000 minutes. Interestingly, the $29 and …

WikiLeaks put its site on Amazon’s servers knowing it would be likely to get booted off, in order to reveal the site’s hypocracy, and that of the US, claims Julian Assange in an interview with the Guardian today. Assange was answering questions from the public, including a person who asked if WikiLeaks had planned to get kicked off Amazon’s servers …

Price is important for a large swath of the cell-phone-buying public. But so are call quality, hardware and software features, and style. That perfect balance between a great price and satisfying everything else is rare, and also subjective. Nevertheless, we’ve rounded up the nine cell phones and smartphones that caused our deal hounds the most excitement in 2010. This wasn’t …

In case you didn’t hear it loud and clear the first time, Level 3 is once again accusing Comcast of setting up a toll booth on the Internet in violation of Net neutrality principles. Earlier this week, Level 3 set off a public relations war with cable and broadband giant Comcast as it described an ongoing commercial dispute between the …

Google Reader, the uber-searcher’s RSS reader, now has an official app for Android phones. There were already plenty of apps available on the Android Market that connected with Google Reader to grab your feeds, but it’s always nice to see an official app that can serve things up simply and reliably. The app syncs with your Google Reader account to …