It seems that Motorola has finally solved the missing piece for its popular line of Droid devices: a good keyboard.

Apple has asked a federal court in California for an order enjoining Motorola Mobility from suing the company in other courts for patent infringement in connection with its use of chips from Qualcomm in its products.

Qualcomm this week revealed a key step in enabling voice calls over LTE handsets. Working with Ericsson, the chipmaker says it recently completed the first voice call handover between LTE and 3G networks, and will showcase the achievement later this month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is still unhappy that the Federal Communications Commission helped foul up his company's attempt to merge with T-Mobile.

Intel moved to defend its turf -- and possibly its future -- by inking deals to supply next-generation Atom chips to smartphone makers Motorola and Lenovo Motorola and Lenovo.

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs received compensation valued at $21.72 million last year, according to documents filed yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His total package is up 23% from 2010, when he netted compensation worth $17.63 million.

Considering that 2012 will be the year of Microsoft's dramatic upgrade to Windows 8, one might have thought the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show last week would be filled with prospective hardware platforms for the new Windows operating system. it might have seemed logical to expect that to hear lots about tablets with Windows 8. But news on that front was surprisingly...quiet.

The iPhone 5 will launch in the third quarter of 2012 and will be slimmer than current generation models, according to an analyst.

Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.

Reactions to the Nexus One have been mixed now that the hardware is out, but one place that surely isn't lacking is the Snapdragon processor. With a 1Ghz clock speed, the Nexus One is one of the fastest smartphones available.