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• Limited edition Droid R2-D2 smartphone goes on sale Thursday

  The special edition Droid R2-D2 smartphone goes on sale Thursday. In a galaxy far, far, away, or maybe at your nearest Verizon Wireless store, the Droid R2-D2, a special edition of the Droid 2 smartphone from Motorola, will be for sale Thursday for $249 after rebate.

• Corporations go gaga over Android

  Corporations are jumping on the Google smartphone bandwagon, with Android device growth outpacing Apple's iPhone 20-fold in the last three months, a market researcher said today.

• Droid X update to Froyo is now ready

  Verizon Wireless will push Android 2.2, or Froyo over the air to Motorola Droid X smartphones on Wednesday, though customers can now start updating to the new OS now on their own, the carrier said Tuesday.

• Sprint says Galaxy Tab still under development

  A Sprint Nextel spokesman said late Friday that the Galaxy Tab with the Android Froyo operating system is still under development, and suggested that reported problems with running Android apps would be fixed before the device is released this fall.

• Avaya unveils 'desktop video device'

  Avaya had barely announced its new portable video device on Wednesday when just about everybody started calling it the Flare Tablet.

• No Froyo for Droid Eris, Verizon confirms

  Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that the Android 2.2 update known as Froyo will not be provided for the Droid Eris smartphone, outraging some customers.

• Android leaps to No. 2 mobile OS in 2010

  The Android will edge out Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Apple's iOS for all of 2010 to become the second best-selling mobile operating system globally behind Nokia's Symbian, according to market research firm Gartner.

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  Windows Phone 7 to launch 11 October, report says

  Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 on 11 October at an event in New York, according to a report on the Pocket-lint Web site.

• Apple blinks on dev tool restrictions

  Apple today reversed its decision earlier in the year that barred developers from using rival programming tools, including one that has since been discontinued by Adobe, to build applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

• Apple ships iOS 4.1, patches FaceTime flaw

  As expected, Apple today released the iOS 4.1 update for its iPhone and iPod Touch.

• Apple leaks Wednesday release for iOS 4.1

  Apple has revealed that the iOS 4.1 update will be launched tomorrow.

• IDC boosts 2010 smartphone shipment projections by 10 per cent

  IDC today said that Global smartphone shipments will jump by 55 per cent this year compared to 2009, and 10 per cent more than projections it made earlier this year.

• Apple's iOS beats Android 6:1 on the web

  Apple's iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android's, a Web measurement company said Wednesday.

• Jobs promises fixes for iPhone flaws next week with iOS 4.1

  Apple yesterday laid out its plans for the next two upgrades of iOS, the mobile operating system that powers its iPhone and iPad, slating the first for release in a few days.

• Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturers

  Windows Phone 7 has been finalized and released to manufacturers, Microsoft announced in a blog today.