The HTC Evo 4G is one step closer to launch. FCC Over the past couple …

Apple claims to have shifted 300,000 units of the Apple iPad on the first day of sales. That includes pre-orders and deliveries to third-party retailers — including massive operations such as Best Buy — but it still means a very minimum of $150m arriving in Steve Jobs’ snug Levi’s back pocket. There’s more to come when the much-hyped multimedia tablet …

Google’s Android operating system edged out Apple’s iPhone operating system for the No. 2 spot in the U.S. consumer smartphone market in the first quarter, research firm NPD Group reported Monday. According to NPD, devices running Android accounted for 28 percent of the units sold to U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2010. BlackBerry devices made by Research In …