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It may be love at first sight for dating site AYI and mobile advertising, with the company seeing more than a 200 percent increase in application downloads since leveraging mobile app install ads on Facebook.

Motorola is seriously plotting to make a smartphone mark this year, hence the looming release date of the Android-powered X-Phone, which in a new render appears primed up to battle it out with the iPhone 5S and HTC One.

Network World - Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes.

This is the second post in my series looking at the usability of mobile apps. Last week, I wrote about HotelTonight .

Boost Mobile announced today that it will be offering the LG Optimus F7 smartphone to its customers from June 27th for $299.

Managed unified communications provider Whaleback Managed Services today unveiled CrystalBlue Mobile and CrystalBlue Desktop , two new softphone applications developed by the company to extend the capabilities of their CrystalBlue Unified Communications to smartphones, tablets and desktops.

Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008.

Lazada, SEA largest online department store, Wednesday announced the launch of its mobile shopping application for Android hand-held devices.

Following the announcement of Qualcomm's next generation Krait 400 and Krait 300 ARM-based CPUs through the Snapdragon 800 and 600 SoCs in January, the giant semiconductor company showcased its... Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs talks up the 800 series chips at the company's CES keynote.

Jelly Bean has been making its way to ever cheaper phones in recent months, and that's very conspicuous with the launch of Virgin Mobile's new Samsung Galaxy Ring.

This will likely involve decoupling the hardware requirements baked into Android 4.0 so that cheaper platforms can be used for the operating system.

Detroit-based Compuware Corp. Tuesday announced the release of the Compuware APM Mobile Application Monitoring Free Edition at the Velocity 2013 Conference here.

While the public remains in the dark about when the HTC One will receive a system update to Android 4.2.2, HTC has reassured all that its 2013 flagship smartphone will run the latest Google operating system at some point.

New York, NY June 18, 2013 With i-Mobb, a new app for world travelers, customers can now access free roaming in foreign countries using their smartphones, tablets, and iPod Touch devices.

TECNO Mobile on Monday in Lagos unveiled its latest Android smartphone series, Phantom A into the Nigeria market.

Mobile rewards network Kiip has added a self-serve option for advertisers aimed at attracting more small- and medium-sized businesses to the rewards-based platform.

Although Ubuntu for phones looks great , it's going to be very tricky for Canonical to get any real foothold in a mobile market utterly dominated by iOS and Android devices.

Simplexo today announced that users can now secure and search data stored on Android devices and in Google Drive.

BlackBerry is set to release a cross-platform version of its BBM messaging service sometime this summer for competing devices running iOS and Android.

The "Sleep of Death" issue found in the Sony Xperia V refers to the waking up problem of the smartphone under the standby mode.