Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will deliver a speech on Monday that sources say will outline a plan to adopt new net neutrality rules. According to a report published by Reuters, the FCC chairman’s plan will seek the adoption of new rules intended to ensure that ISPs can’t arbitrarily block or slow down their [...]

Palm announced smaller than expected losses on sales of the Pre, but its outlook failed to excite investors. Going forward, the company plans to raise new capital and bet the farm on WebOS, dumping both its older Palm OS and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Palm announced sales of 823,000 smartphones, including both its new WebOS Pre [...]

Chip designer ARM announced this week new dual core Cortex-A9 processors capable of breaking the 2GHz barrier, perhaps foreshadowing the muscle behind Apple’s future mobile devices. According to ARM, the Cortex-A9 MPCore “hard macro implementations” will enable chip makers to create even higher-performance devices from the low-power chips in “high density and thermally constrained environments” [...]

Italian site Gioga23 notes that the iPhone 3G and iPod touch, despite not having built-in video cameras, are able to utilizing the iPhone 3GS video trimming feature when running iPhone OS 3.1. E-mailed videos can be saved to the user’s Photos application, where they can then be opened, trimmed, and saved as edited copies. While [...]

Deutsche Telekom, the owners of T-Mobile in the U.S., are reportedly looking into acquiring competitor Sprint. Together, the two companies would have a customer base that rivals AT&T. According to The Daily Telegraph, Detsche Telekom is prepping a multi-billion dollar offer for Sprint Nextel, which is the third-largest wireless carrier in America. Together, the two [...]

Apple’s public accounting records could receive a significant boost, particularly in terms of iPhone profits, if a proposed rule change comes to pass. The Financial Accounting Standards Board sets accounting standards for U.S. public companies, a power designated to the private, not-for-profit group by the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the [...]

In a new report from DigiTimes, Taiwanese memory module makers said there have been a “serious shortage” of NAND flash chips, as companies provide more and more of their supply to Apple. Industry sources said memory providers will limit the supply of memory provided to companies other than the Cupertino, Calif., hardware maker. “Samsung Electronics [...]

As Apple’s iPhone prepares for its debut in China later this year, competing handset maker Research in Motion is also pushing for its BlackBerry line to expand to 3G in the nation of over one billion. In a new note to investors, research analyst Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. said while Apple has garnered a [...]

Chinese site Sina has snapped a ton of clear photos of the Dell Mini 3i, their China-only Android-based smartphone. It looks like a genetic experiment between the Palm Pre and the iPhone, twisted in an rather unholy (and bulky) fashion into a Frankenstein amalgamation of smartphones. Dell was already told this wasn’t a good idea, [...]

Microsoft announced Tuesday that hardware equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5, its latest smartphone platform to compete with Apple’s iPhone, will be available to consumers on Oct. 6. In a post on the official Windows Mobile blog, Apple’s rival to the north declared that hardware equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 will arrive in just five weeks. [...]