Microsoft’s new Meet Your Match viral videos target iPhone and Android head-on

"Hi, I'm Ben, and today I'm showing people why Windows Phone is a better match for them than iPhone and Android."

1,000,000 apps have been created for iOS (but Android is in hot pursuit)

According to social app discovery company Appsfire, today is the day that marks the one million apps have been created for Apple's app store.

Phorce: This awesome smart bag charges your laptop & phones, looks good, and warns you when you forget it

Phorce is a pricey bag, no doubt. But it's also a very cool, smart-looking, and smart-acting gadget bag.

Banjo brings friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram together, by location (and it’s awesome)

Most new social-local apps are a bore, frankly. But most don't have a CEO who did a couple of tours of duty in Desert Storm, was a chief mechanic for a NASCAR team, and then, after selling a startup, went back to study at MIT.

Samsung: Hell, no, we’re not paying Apple any royalties!

Anyone who thought a sudden wave of peace, love, and joy was going to erupt in the mobile marketplace just in time for Christmas, keep dreaming.

App developers: Mopub report shows you how to maximize ad revenues

If you want to maximize ad revenue in your mobile app, develop for iPhone, allow rich media ads, pass keywords to advertisers about content and users, and focus on health, news, entertainment, and fitness segments.

Apple and Microsoft could make 600% more from Android than Google in 2013

Google's mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars, with over 75 percent market share, but Apple and Microsoft could be making more from Android than Google -- up to 600 percent more next year.

Analyst: iPad will dip below 50% tablet market share in mid-2013

Android smartphones have already taken the sales crown with 75 percent share and 57 million shipped by Samsung alone last quarter. It seems that the tablet market will soon follow suit.

Samsung reportedly jacking up Apple’s costs for iPhone and iPad processors by 20 percent

Frankly, if you are Samsung, why wouldn't you raise Apple's prices? A price increase could be simply a bargaining chip in an attempt to reach a settlement, or it could be Samsung's way of recouping the billion-plus dollars it is obligated to pay Apple.

Mobile games winning the war for your attention

The answer to who are the more committed gamers, console or mobile players, might not be as clear-cut as you think.

Field service software provider ServiceMax pulls in $27M, plots global expansion

ServiceMax offers customers web and mobile applications for scheduling and workforce optimization and contract management in the field.

Microsoft’s Surface RT is more profitable than iPad (theoretically)

Unit for unit, could Microsoft's Surface tablet be more profitable than Apple's iPad? iSuppli certainly thinks so.

Newvem unveils first-ever iPhone app for managing Amazon cloud services

Cloud Smart Meter shows IT managers, CIOs, and developers what they're using, how much they're spending, and what's currently not working -- or might be about to go down.

Microsoft demos simple cloud-enabling of mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services

Looking to cloud-enable your mobile app? Looks like Microsoft can help make that a lot easier.

BeauCoo launches mobile fashion network for real women, with real bodies

It may be shocking to some men -- or at least advertising art directors -- but not all women have the stereotypical Barbie dimensions. Or the Twiggy lack thereof.

Wikipedia’s focus on mobile spikes growth in Kenya, Malaysia, Niger

While we in Silicon Valley twiddle our thumbs over a panoply of smart devices, much of the rest of the world still uses feature phones, and the smartest, fastest-growing websites are those that still focus on feature phone users.

Russian entrepreneurs invest in mobile technology, and each other

Mail.ru founder puts $75 million into IMI.VC, a Russian venture fund that invests in mobile applications.

6 billion datapoints from 500 million devices reveal differences between smartphones and tablets

Apparently, people like to have fun, and they buy digital devices to assist them in that noble quest. But they use those devices differently ... and therein lies the story.