I’m VentureBeat’s National Editor and lead mobile writer. I’ve been writing about technology since 2004, worked in IT support for many many years, and studied philosophy at Amherst College. I’ve also had experience on the retail end, as an electronics associate at Office Max (RIP) in my teenage years. I now live in Brooklyn, New York.

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Will Google make a Kindle Fire competitor below $199? Unlikely

That Google is developing its own Nexus Android tablet isn’t much of a surprise — Google chairman Eric Schmidt strongly hinted at it weeks ago — but can the company make it significantly cheaper than Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire? I …

Apple nabs Adobe’s Todd Teresi to head iAd

More than four months after Apple lost iAd boss Andy Miller, the company has finally appointed a replacement.

Todd Teresi, formerly a vice president of Media Solutions at Adobe, is now steering Apple’s mobile ad ship, Bloomberg reports. More specifically, …

Roku Streaming Stick delivers TV apps in a flash drive package

Set-top boxes are so 2011. Roku, a company that helped popularize cheap streaming video boxes, is out to changing the game with its new Streaming Stick.

The Stick, which is about the size of a USB flash drive, plugs into …

Inq cancels Facebook-focused Cloud Q phone

I can’t imagine anyone was desperately waiting for Inq to release the Cloud Q, its second Android smartphone with deep Facebook integration, but now the company has confirmed that the phone won’t see the light of day.

Inq says it …

iPhone 4S heads to China, 21 more countries on January 13

Mainland China will get the iPhone 4S earlier than previously expected. The phone will be available next week on January 13, Apple announced today.

Additionally, the iPhone 4S will be available in 21 more countries on January 13, including Ecuador, …

Windows Phone’s big bet: Nokia Ace to get massive $100M marketing push

How important is the upcoming Nokia Ace Windows Phone? Important enough that Microsoft, Nokia, and AT&T are willing to pour $100 million into a massive marketing campaign for the phone.

The Ace, which is expected to launch exclusively on AT&T …

Klout confirms “strong round” of funding, won’t talk price or value

While it’s been talked about for some time, Klout today finally confirmed that it raised a “strong” third round of funding — though it won’t say how much.

Klout CEO Joe Fernandez confirmed the funding with All Things D, and …

Nokia’s AT&T-bound Ace is the Lumia 900, a potentially killer Windows Phone

We heard last week that Nokia was preparing an LTE-powered Windows Phone for AT&T, dubbed the Ace, and it now appears to be much more than just a 4G version of the Lumia 800.

The Ace is actually AT&T’s name …

RIM may oust co-CEOs as co-chairmen, says report

In what will likely be the first of many major power struggles at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion over the next year, the company is reportedly considering ousting co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as co-chairmen of the board.

In …

Uh oh, Google may be in trouble for fishy Chrome sponsored-post campaign

A series of low-quality posts meant to increase the search ranking of Google’s Chrome browser, which also appear to have been sponsored by Google, could put the search giant in hot water for violating its own rules.

More than 400 …

Apple planning iBooks and publishing NYC event for January (updated)

Apple apparently has a big event in store for New York City this month — though it’s not the announcement of the iPad 3, or the rumored Apple television set.

Most likely, the event will center on a media-related announcement …

Sony slashes Tablet S by $100, undercuts the iPad at $399

Hopefully you didn’t pick up Sony’s stylish Tablet S Android slate before the holidays, because it’s now a cool $100 cheaper.

Starting today, the Tablet S now starts at $399 for the 16 gigabyte model ($499 for the 32GB), undercutting …

Intel’s first Android smartphone will be made by LG, shown off at CES

Intel has already hinted at its smartphone and tablet processor plans for next year, but it seems that LG will hold the title of the first company to create a modern smartphone with Intel inside.

Intel will be showing off …

Ocean Marketing holds N-Control’s digital accounts hostage, relents after more drama

You’d think that Ocean Marketing’s Paul Christoforo would try to avoid the limelight after one of the worst PR moves ever this week, but you’d be wrong.

Christoforo (pictured) was apparently holding the e-mail and social media accounts for the …

Verizon blames “growing pains” for LTE 4G outages

Verizon Wireless may be paying the price for being the first carrier in the world to widely roll out LTE 4G technology.

The carrier has pointed to the relative immaturity of LTE as the reason for its 4G service outages …

Windows Phone LTE plans: Nokia Ace, HTC Radiant, Samsung Mendel coming to AT&T early 2012

If you’re interested in the Windows Phone mobile operating system, but holding out for LTE 4G devices on the platform, you may not have to wait much longer.

Microsoft’s first round of LTE-equipped Windows Phone devices will be headed to …

The most interesting phones of 2011: what mattered most in a year of smartphone overload

It seems like every week a must-have smartphone is either announced or released. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to track which phones are actually worth paying attention to and which will be swiftly thrown into the scrap heap of devices nobody …

iPad 3 rumor mill: two new iPads planned for January, says report

We’re not even in 2012 yet, but the iPad 3 rumor mill is in full swing.

The latest rumor: Apple is preparing two new iPad models for a January debut. That’s according to sources cited by the Taiwanese news site …

Stratfor puts off website relaunch for a week after Anonymous attack

Following a major attack by the hacker group Anonymous, security research firm Strategic Forecasting, better known as Stratfor, has said it will delay putting its website back online by about a week.

Stratfor yesterday sent an e-mail to its free …