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Saudi Arabia has ordered its mobile operators to stop providing services for Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones by Friday. The news comes days after the United Arab Emirates said it would halt BlackBerry data services in October.

Behold: The iPhone 4 has arrived. See people weep, computer nerds scream with joy in the streets. See even the most dedicated Apple fans toss their iPhone 3Gs into the river and run like salivating Pavlov dogs to the nearest Apple Store... Well, maybe not. And with a price tag of $199 for the...

Best Buy posted disappointing first-quarter results this morning, falling well short of analysts' expectations. Cautious customers lifted the retailer's overall U.S. sales by 5%, but lower sales of TVs, video games and movies cut into its profit margins.

Are you ready to give up cash and checks and start using your credit card exclusively? You might just be able to do that -- if you own a smartphone. Seems that now that almost everyone with a cell phone is quickly exchanging it for a smartphone, several companies are betting good money that these...

After questions from the Federal Communications Commission, Google has lowered its early termination fees for its Nexus One from $350 to $150. Although Google calls it an "equipment recovery fee" for the phone, customers who want to break their two-year contract will still have to pay an early...

According to Google's Mobile blog, the company distributed a new mobile phone running the Android platform as part of its mobile lab -- a process they call "dogfooding." The employees will test the beta-version smart phone in an attempt to improve it.

In the heart of the holiday phone-buying season, AT T handed Google a fabulous present and partner Apple a lump of coal. Both were wrapped in one spectacular network failure, which stranded thousands of the Web's most vocal and demanding iPhone users.

Palm (PALM) must not think that its new Pre smartphone gets it into a broad enough portion of the handset market. As of September 9, it will be offering a new and much smaller phone called the Pixi. The handset will be available exclusively from Sprint in all of its outlets before the holidays. The...

Apple Inc.'s (APPL) public relations staff deserves a medal for whipping the tech press into a frothy lather about today's "major update" to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Major media outlets ran largely laudatory stories about the upgrade while investors could care less. Shares of the maker of the...