Alright, you ultrafast mobile broadband zealots, whip out your calendars and draw a big red tick around the middle of 2011. Verizon’s CTO Anthony Melone has identified next summer as the carrier’s release window for its first LTE handset, which should be preceded by the 4G service being rolled out by the end of this …

Nokia VP, David Rivas, was in San Francisco yesterday touting Symbian^3 improvements. While we’ve heard and seen plenty about Symbian Three’s enhanced user experience already, it’s still worthy of another look considering Symbian’s dominant marketshare. Besides, David provides a very detailed look as he walks us though elements like the…

The renowned MIT Media Lab is a place where every project is an amazing, unbelievable glimpse into humanity’s technological future. Now, thanks to a massive $90 million extension, the architecture can match the wondrous excitement created within. In case you haven’t had the opportunity to swing by this particular block in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here’s what…

Mama always said that some folks just never learn , and we reckon there’s plenty of wisdom to be had from that very statement. Year after year , German police are called in to raid select booths at CeBIT ( and IFA , to be fair), and yet again we’ve seen a booth cleared out…

Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating software for Google Apps and could launch as soon as Tuesday. Early last month, news leaked about Google working on its own app…

We love Sony. We really do. And we want them to get back in the game, because competition makes everyone better. Here’s how they do it. Open the Library There was a time when I might have suggested that Sony jettison its media companies, setting music and movies adrift so that the electronics divisions would…

This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the show made a drastic change in strategy last night by consolidating all of them under the AI9Contestants username across sites. Twitter followers of each of the individual contestants …

Comedy site Funny Or Die has brought together current and former stars of Saturday Night Live (plus Jim Carrey) to create a skit called “Presidential Reunion” that has racked up more than one million views in less than 24 hours. The skit features Fred Armisen, who currently plays Barack Obama on…

Valve Software , creators of seminal video games Half-Life , Portal , Team Fortress 2 and more, also owns and operates Steam , one of the most popular PC gaming digital distribution networks. For now that service remains accessible from Windows operating systems only, relegating would-be Mac gamers to dual-booting using Boot Camp …

A couple of months ago we discovered Apple was in talks with major music labels about securing their permission and support for storing iTunes users’ music in the cloud. Now it looks like the company is also making the rounds with film studios , eyeing the parallel goal of allowing cloud storage of…