Facebook has been making a lot of promises during a tour to drum up interest in its ever-nearing IPO, but the one gadget-heads have been wanting to hear the most, a commitment to its mobile apps, has been elusive — until now. Everyone’s favorite hooded CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is telling investors in his home ‘burg [...]

In the wake of the Path address book fiasco, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) have followed up their initial query to Apple about privacy issues by contacting the people and companies behind 34 iOS apps. The list includes Tim Cook (again), concerning Apple’s own Find My Friends, Mark Zuckerberg and Path’s CEO [...]

Unfortunately, Samsung’s Galaxy Note won’t join the Galaxy S II with its own upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich in Q1 as originally announced, since the company has now scheduled its arrival for Q2. It will however, arrive worldwide as part of a “Premium Suite” software upgrade packed with exclusive apps meant to highlight its S-Pen [...]

We’ve now downloaded an astronomical 25 billion iOS apps, and Apple’s put out lists of the all time most popular for iPhone and iPad. More » Gizmodo

Like any money-hungry corporation, Sprint’s branching out to pursue greener (as in the color of dolla dolla bills) pastures. The Hesse-led co’s just announced the creation of its New Ventures unit, an overseas- and wholesale-focused entity which is set to expand upon Android’s rapidly growing user base to generate some lucrative B2B handshakes with manufacturers [...]