It takes two to tango, and the next two updates to Windows Phone have been revealed, according to reports from China. Windows Phone Tango will follow the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 update known as Mango, and Windows Phone 8 will follow next year with the codename Apollo. Tango will add new features to phones using …

Research In Motion is expanding its series of developers conferences to European programmers. The first DevCon Europe, as it’s called, is set for Amsterdam on February 7 and 8, 2012. The BlackBerry maker has been slowly increasing its outreach to developers, launching DevCon Asia this year. (The 2012 show will take place in Bangkok.) Meanwhile, the San Francisco area will …

HTC Status The recent rumblings about the AT&T-bound HTC ChaCha were right, as the two companies made their friendship official today via Facebook. Rebranded as the HTC Status, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread device has a dedicated Facebook share button that lets you instantly post things to the social networking site, such as status updates, photos, and videos. You can use …

Cisco Systems’ Android-based Cius tablet will go on sale at the end of July, and the company plans to launch an application ecosystem to help spur adoption. The company unveiled today AppHQ, an application development platform that big companies can use to create and test applications for the Cius tablet. Companies will be able to create their own private app …

Ericsson yesterday demoed a new version of LTE technology that’s 10 times faster than today’s current standard and delivers speeds of nearly 1 gigabit per second. Conducted in the company’s home base of Sweden, the demonstration of LTE Advanced was presented to the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Using existing commercial hardware, Ericsson was able to use a test …

Research In Motion has reportedly put the brakes on a 10-inch PlayBook tablet and is instead focusing on a new BlackBerry “superphone,” according to enthusiast site N4BB. RIM may be sticking with its 7-inch tablet. RIM Previous rumors had pointed to RIM launching a 10-inch follow-up to its current 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. But N4BB said yesterday that it had …

Are you coaching a soccer team? Hosting a party? Managing a mobile sales fleet? Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have a way to quickly and automatically contact everyone involved, without having to make the same phone call over and over? That’s the idea behind Mr. PhoneTree, a new iPhone app that can call, e-mail, and/or text-message as many people as …

Has a laundry list of issues put a temporary hold on Motorola’s Android 2.3 updates at Verizon? According to unconfirmed reports, Verizon is unhappy with recent Gingerbread updates coming out of the Motorola camp. A source close to Droid Life has advised that the carrier is rejecting all current Android 2.3 updates from the handset maker over a growing list …

Tablet PCs aren’t just for playing super-sized versions of Angry Birds or streaming Netflix movies. They’re increasingly being used in the work place. Cisco Cius tablet Cisco Systems The popularity of the Apple iPad is spilling over into the workplace, where everyone from executives to nurses to sales associates to people who stock the shelves at your favorite retailer are …

It was four years ago today that Kent slaved late into the night to review the first-ever iPhone. (He still remembers it with grueling clarity.) Fast-forwarding to today, Poor Bonnie no longer has a phone named in her honor, as HTC and AT&T rebrand the Facebook-centric ChaCha as the HTC Status. This week, we also take up Windows Phone 7.5, …