# android Billing this as a rough-’n-tumble phone, Motorola’s Defy doesn’t particularly wow on the specs-front, but could be a good Android alternative to those rugged phones Samsung keeps churning out. More »
THE GIZMO: A phone tech tug-of-war. THE BIG DEBATE: Should every mobile phone sold in the United States contain a tiny chip that enables FM radio reception? That’s a proposal now being pushed at Congress by the National Association of Broadcasters and the recording industry trade group musicFirst.
If you have a smart phone, The Florida Times-Union has an app for you. Five of them. The newspaper’s Jacksonville.com offers apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile phones and has one on the way for the Palm webOS.
The country’s major phone firms are to rebate customers up to $90, the CRTC said Tuesday. The firms have also been been told to spend hundreds of millions more deploying broadband Internet services to rural communities
On the eve of Apple’s fall product announcement Wednesday, Amazon.com is surfacing with plans for a subscription video service that could appear by the holidays.
