T-Mobile’s decision to abolish contracts and cell phone subsidies has piqued the interest of consumers. That’s according to T-Mobile’s senior vice president of marketing, Andrew Sherrard, and its executive vice president for corporate services, David Carey, who spoke to CNET today. Carey said traffic was up in all of the stores he visited after the …

AT&T is making it easier for businesses to launch new mobile marketing campaigns using QR code technology. The telecom giant is partnering with Scanbuy to allow businesses to create campaigns that can trigger actions such as linking to a video or generating an e-mail, as well as help expand brand awareness using designer QR codes. AT&T Mobile Barcode Services also …

The first adverts for Facebook Home — the social network’s Android launcher that launched last week — have aired, and they’re about as different to each other as you can get. The first shows a man boarding a tedious business flight that gets a whole lot more interesting when he powers up his phone and sees Facebook Home. His friends …

The late launch of the HTC One smartphone put a damper on HTC’s first-quarter profits. For the quarter ending in March, net profit plummeted to 85 million Taiwanese dollars ($2.85 million), a fall from 10.9 billion Taiwanese dollars ($363 million) a year ago and the company’s lowest quarterly profit since 2004. Results also disappointed analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who …

Disastrous delays to the HTC One have seen HTC plummet to its lowest profits ever. Taiwan company High Tech Computers made 85m New Taiwan dollars (£1.8m) profit in the first three months of the year amid crippling delays to the flagship One phone. That’s a jaw-dropping plummet from NT$1bn (£22m) profit at the end of last year. And this cliff-jumping …

As people around the world become increasingly more reliant on their mobile devices, the app market continues to grow. New research from market analyst firm Canalys shows that the top four app stores hit 13.4 billion downloads worldwide in the first quarter of 2013. This is an 11 percent increase over all of 2012 combined. “Apps have had a huge …

Virgin Mobile wants consumers to know that it’s a major player in the no-contract wireless game too, and isn’t afraid to spend a little money to show it. Virgin Mobile Virgin set its sights directly on T-Mobile, offering $100 to T-Mobile customers willing to switch their number over and buy a smartphone before May 31. Carriers will often provide incentives …

Tumblr launched its redesigned Android mobile app today, making some major upgrades over its last version. “Tumblr for Android just got a total face-lift,” the company wrote in a blog post today. “We’ve completely redesigned the interface, added fancy post animations, made images pop, and a whole lot more.” The app, which is available on Google Play, has an entirely …

Now playing: Watch this: Unboxing the Nokia Lumia 920 4:25 The Nokia Lumia 920 is now the best-selling handset running Microsoft’s Windows Phone software. At least that’s what specialty Windows Phone application advertising firm AdDuplex says. Indeed according to AdDuplex, and reported by Windows Phone Central, the Lumia 920 enjoys 14 percent of the entire Windows Phone market. That may …

A new Nokia is on the cards and this one could strip the Nokia Lumia 920 of its flagship status. Allegedly called the Lumia 928, photos and the scantest of details were leaked via Twitter user @evleaks. Headed for Verizon, the 928 is reportedly a slightly tweaked version of the 920. So what’s the difference? According to The Verge, the …