Industry groups naturally tend to protect their own, and after playing with San Francisco for several years the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) is now taking its ball and going home. On Tuesday, the association said in a statement that it would no longer hold its autumn trade show in San Francisco after this year’s …

Android users who have been waiting a long time to see an app for Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader can stop waiting, and start downloading. While a little plain and slim on features, the free Kindle app for Android–available starting Monday–does its job as an e-book reader. Once you fire it up, it lets you shop for new books or …

As much as we’d like to say that we can do the same thing on a mobile phone as we can on a desktop, the truth of the matter is that unless you’re toting a tablet like the iPad (and even then…), some tasks are just harder to do without some form of mobile-optimized view. To that end, Google now …

The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to free up 500 megahertz of additional wireless spectrum got a significant boost from the White House. On Monday, President Barack Obama signed a memorandum that commits the U.S. to making an additional 500MHz of government and commercial spectrum available for auction and for unlicensed use within the next 10 years. This goal of getting …

VHA today announces free calls between its customers on the Vodafone and 3 Mobile networks starting from 21 July. The free network-to-network calls will be available for customers on any new post-paid cap of at least AU$29 per month. The move to initiate free member-to-member calling could be seen as the first sign of uniformity between the two networks since …

Earlier this week we reported that the upcoming Nokia N8 would be the last N-Series handset to run on the Symbian platform, with all future N-Series phones being powered by MeeGo and the first of these devices will be the N9. We gleaned this information from a discussion we had with Nokia’s head of marketing in Asia/Pac, Will Harris, who …

Over the past few days, Samsung has unveiled the identities of a couple of Galaxy S phones heading to the U.S., including the Samsung Captivate for AT&T and the Samsung Vibrant for T-Mobile.   But it seems as if Samsung has plenty of Android love to spread around as it announces three additional models for Sprint, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular. Though …

Enjoying your new iPhone 4? If the novelty has worn off FaceTime, iOS 4 and ebooks, it’s time to customise your phone. And what better way to do that than with an iPhone case? Not only do cases make your iPhone look good, they protect it and could even sort out your signal problems. Here are ten more cases that …

Updated, June 28, 2010: We updated this post to include the name of the Adobe representative. The debate over Flash on mobile devices has been the hot-button issue in the smartphone world for the past several months. On the next episode of Android Atlas Weekly, we’ll try and settle the score once and for all with your help. Our guest …

You’ve been able to install Apple’s iBook app for a while, but iPhone and iPod touch users have had to wait for iOS 4 to use it. But how do ebooks fare on screens smaller than the iPad‘s? What is it? iBooks is Apple’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. You can buy books for it in the same way you …