CUPERTINO, USA - Patents uncovered from the USPTO have unveiled a new social networking app being developed by Apple, for its iPhone. iGroups will be a crucial move for the manufacturer to keep up with the demands of always-connected users. Several mobile phone makers are already advertising their handsets as having built-in Facebook and Twitter connectivity

Keep your eyes tuned to this post -- because at 5:00 PM ET, we'll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab and OLPC Project, Dr. Richard Marks showing off Sony's PlayStation Move, commentary from Joystiq editor Chris Grant, plus much, much, more! You seriously don't want to miss it! Of course, if you're in NY we'd love to have you a...

More than 200 million smartphone users worldwide now have Skype at their fingertips. Luxembourg and Espoo, Finland - Skype and Nokia jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world's most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either.....

Opera Software plans on releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone as an App Store application, according to the company's co-founder, who publicly states that he anticipates no problems with Apple allowing the move. Opera has been disseminating Opera Mini to as many smartphone platforms as possible, including Google Android and Windows Mobile, as it attempts to preserve and maybe grow its market sh...

Just a few hours ago, Google launched their Google App Marketplace with over 50 vendors ready to serve up a host of applications that integrate directly with Google services. A bold move for sure, but one that may have a larger impact on Android than at first glance. Obviously the App Marketplace targets the small to

This is the first video of Niko completely controlled by the Nokia N900. Niko will turn, move, take a photo, upload the photo to TwitPic, and post a message to Twitter!

The major carriers should get their money ready because the Federal Communications Commission is going to start the process to auction more 700-MHz spectrum. The governmental agency is looking to move the D block segment, which was also up for auction the last major 700-MHz auction. It failed to reach its bid price because ...

Im calling BS on these but it looks like these are screenshots for BlackBerry OS 6.0 complete with widgets out the wazoo. Clearly the thought here is to bring BB into the 21st century, a move thats sorely needed by BlackBerrys current sad sack OS. The fact that there are no other specs point to

There are some mockups of what could be BlackBerry OS 6 circulating and while its not clear whether the images are just conceptual or theyre actually going to be implemented, its still interesting to see what RIM might be working on. The mockups tell us surprisingly little about what to expect in OS 6, except for that if theyre real, we can expect RIM to move away from traditional icons and toward...

As some carriers make their move towards 4G, T-Mobile USA is losing some customers for their inability to even provide 3G access, something the carrier is looking to fix for their next generation network.  Rumor has it that T-Mobile is working on a join venture opportunity with Clearwire to support their 4G data network. Two pretty