LightSquared, the hedge-fund-backed start-up that plans to build a nationwide wireless 4G network using both …

Nielsen Smartphone demand continues to surge as more than half of all recent cell phone buyers opted for one, Nielsen said today. Specifically, 55 percent of consumers who bought a new mobile phone from March through May picked a smartphone over a non-smartphone, according to a survey from the market researcher. That compares with 34 percent in the same period …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Trender (Sprint) 2:15 There’s been such a rush of Android messaging phones these days, we almost did a double take when we realized that the Samsung Trender was not one of them. Instead, the basic QWERTY slider runs on Samsung’s proprietary operating system, one that involves using tabs and grids instead of swipes to move …