The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name on to some of the more buzzy trends in TV this year: gesture-controlled television, apps, 3D and cloud-based content. In a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show…

Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gearing up for a splash at CES to kick off the U.S. launch of its new line of Microsoft-powered smartphones, it has pulled a quick draw to show it is not going to neglect its lower-end devices in the process. The company has acquired…

Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung…

In a much-anticipated decision, the International Trade Commission today sided with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and announced that it would impose a limited import ban on certain devices made by Taiwanese rival HTC. [Updated below]

Samsung may be still be trying to crack the tablet market, but in mobile devices it is continuing to pick up steam: it sold 300 million devices so far this year, breaking its previous record.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…

HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all handset makers, as forecasts go up for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) based on strong iPhone sales. However, iPad tablets are not getting the same treatment, and…

Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it is. Shares have dropped some 40 percent in the last five weeks for the Taiwan-based handset maker, with the company’s stock price currently down…

One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answer to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store retail phenomenon, the unveiling of an Android retail operation, in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Samsung got dealt one more blow in Sydney’s courtrooms, as…

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement that reputation even further: the patent-holding company IPCom says that it plans to execute an existing injunction on HTC to prohibit the…

It’s no secret that the mobile market in China is big business: the country’s own officials reported last month that China is now approaching 1 billion mobile users, with some 102 million of them using smartphones. That’s driving a lot more activity in the country—with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) being the…

The Kindle Fire, retailing for only $199, could be the Android tablet that sells in volumes and provides real competition against the iPad from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The analysts at Nomura have looked at what the consequence will be for other tablet makers (not just those building on Google’s Android),…

Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the service into other aspects of the device? Well, here come more: Orange today is announcing that it will start to sell three new phones across its…

Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to back those of them facing legal disputes over patents. But that’s not stopping those device makers from shoring up their patent licensing deals, just in case. The latest…

Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on the market is making Google’s mobile OS the smartphone platform leader for the moment, with a 57 percent share of the market. In the U.S., where the rising Android…

We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs—and the popularity of some specific models, such as the Galaxy line from Samsung—is translating into a boom for the Android platform. But that growth is even more striking when you compare it…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The industry will be watching closely to see how well the Lumia 800 and 710 sell (respectively at €420 ($589.6/£368.05) and €270 ($379.03/£236.6) without subsidies and taxes)—with all manner…