BBC 6 Music has been saved from the threat of closure by the BBC Trust, but its sister station the Asian Network has been granted only a stay of execution. 6 Music received huge support on Twitter and Facebook — resulting in many more listeners — after the digital radio station was marked for death …

Are you an Aussie developer who’s considering mobile app and content creation, but feel intimidated by the 300,000 iPhone and 100,000 Android apps you’d have to compete against? Maybe your idea would be better built on Samsung’s Bada operating system? (Credit: Samsung) To coincide with the recent launch of Samsung’s Bada OS in Australia, the Korean phone maker is hosting …

VoIP and IM client Fring has updated its iPhone 4 application to allow users to make face-to-face video calls over a 3G connection, and to a host of mobile devices — not just other iPhone 4 handsets. That pretty much clears up the gripes we had with FaceTime, Apple’s own video-calling platform, which restricted calls to friends who owned an …

Not to beat this dead horse any further, but there’s one thing I don’t get about the whole iPhone 4 antenna hubbub: don’t 99 percent of users carry their phones in a case anyway? I can’t remember the last time I spotted a “naked” one. (iPhone, that is, not user. Come to think of it, haven’t seen many naked users, …

A survey conducted by Tesco has found that mobile phone users — so, everyone — are unhappy with the sharp rise in the number of 24-month contracts in the last few years. In 2008, shorter 12-month contracts made up 13.4 per cent of the market, 18-month contracts held 83.4 per cent of the market and 24-month contracts a minuscule 3.2 …

NTP said Friday it has filed a lawsuit against six of the world’s leading cell phone makers, accusing them of infringing on its patents for delivering e-mail to handsets. The company, which successfully sued Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphones, is targeting Apple, Google, HTC, LG Electronics, Microsoft, and Motorola in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. …

To deal with the flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the Internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to VeriSign. The U.S. security company, which administers one of the root servers of the Internet, has started a project to deal with the expected increase in bandwidth demand. Project Apollo was …

U.S. Cellular is teaming with TeleNav to bring turn-by-turn navigation to the carrier’s smartphones. On Friday, the carrier announced its Your Navigator Deluxe service that offers such features as voice-guided directions, 3D maps, speech recognition, more than 12 million business listings, and traffic and weather information. Even better, there isn’t an additional fee to use TeleNav as it’s all included …

The clever folks aboard the good ship Omio have posted what they claim is a manufacturer roadmap for a huge number of UK mobile phones. They’ve listed more devices than it’s possible to shake a stick at, so we recommend you check out the article in its entirety, but we’ve selected a few of the more interesting devices for you …

The latest release of Yelp (2.0) landed in the Android Market late last week and it’s a fantastic update. For those few of you who are unfamiliar with the title, Yelp lets users search for places to eat, shop, hang out, work out, and more based on location and reviews from the community. Expecting a simple enhancement to the user …