For a little over a year Microsoft has been extracting license fees from HTC for their use of Google’s Android operating system, on the basis that Android infringes several of Microsoft’s patents. While their claims have yet to be tested in court, Microsoft has been dangling the threat of lawsuits in front of other Android manufacturers, including Motorola and Barnes & Noble.

As if RIM didn’t have a tough enough to worry about at the moment, with falling handset sales and a middling response to their inaugural tablet launch, it seems the Canadian handset manufacturer now has to worry about rogue execs penning scathing letters expressing disillusionment with company management.

LightSquared’s ongoing GPS issues are now well known and seem to have tripped up the company’s plans to launch a wholesale nationwide LTE network.

At Google’s recent developer conference, I/O 2011, the three big topics we were expecting were Android, Chrome and Google TV. The first two were dealt with in depth, however Google TV only got a passing mention. Google notified current owners than they would soon get an update to a Honeycomb-based version of the TV software, but that was about it.

Nokia will be debuting Angry Birds’ Mighty Eagle level clearer before rival Google’s Android will get its hands on it, RCR discovered on Monday.

We have used this space recently to highlight the fact that mobile devices are now basically in charge of the mobile industry and that a week cannot go by without a new mobile device or smartphone being hoisted onto the market. This hoisting is usually followed by carriers scrambling to figure out how to tame the new beast.

What began with the hacking of Sony Corp.’s Playstation Network back in April has now snowballed into a full-on hackers open season, as a whole raft of websites have fallen to the group calling themselves LulzSec. The collective have now turned their hive-mind on the government, with high-profile hacks of both the Senate and CIA sites in less than 24 hours.

All of the news and speculation that surrounds Nokia Corp. (NOK) brings to mind shades of Motorola Inc. (MOT) a few years back. Motorola was once queen of the ball with a solid name brand and No. 1 leadership position in the United States, only to drop from the top because the company relied too [...]

RCR Unplugged has long reported the rumor that the iPad 3 will sport a 3D display, but our friends over at Netbook News seem to be one step closer to furnishing proof, offering an eye opening video from a recent Taiwan tech show

Analyst firms are often accused of pulling figures from various places; the sky, their rear ends – basically anywhere but reality – and with the latest numbers from IDC its not difficult to see why.