There was juicy news for experimental mobile enthusiasts today, as a version of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Mango was leaked online by xda-developers.

Angry Birds creator Rovio has been catapulted into the middle of an ugly patent war started by a Texas-based patent licensing company, Lodsys.

A large-scale investigation into the demand for mobile developers has revealed that Google’s Android operating system is seeing greater demand than ever before, and is on track to overtake demand for iPhone developers in 2012.

Recently, RCR caught up with Qualcomm in Taipei to take a look at the firm’s latest developer offerings and tasty treats to lure mobile engineers into the Qualcomm ecosystem.

Nokia has not only left Symbian out in the cold, it has also closed the door to its once beloved operating system, officially ending its days as an open-source platform and taking down online distributions of it.

Google is trying to make itself seem more attractive to mobile game developers, with Ian Ni-Lewis, Developer Advocate for Games at Google pulling out all the stops to woo the gangly geniuses out of their basements.

Orlando, Fla., – While the world grapples with the news of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, mobile location provider LOC-AID Technologies, Inc., seems to already have found its feet announcing a single API for developers wanting to build location apps for both T-Mobile and AT&T.

There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.

A lot of people like to dismiss and poke fun at MeeGo, but developers don’t seem put off by Intel’s OS offering. While Nokia’s betrayal was certainly a kick in the teeth for the chip maker, developers seem to be showing more than a passing interest in the software, showing up to developer sessions in droves.

New year, new employees for HP’s newly acquired Palm, it seems, with job postings a plenty from the firm which is looking to hire mainly software engineers for its upcoming webOS offerings.