Verizon’s Droid 2 has finally been rooted, by the cool cats at xda-developers of course. Those of you lucky enough to have a Droid 2 be sure to check it out, but a warning: as usual proceed with caution!

The latest version of the Wordpress for BlackBerry app has gone live on BlackBerry App World, bringing mainly bugfixes and advancing the version number to 1.4.1

The University of Manchester is researching and developing facial recognition biometrics to increase smartphone security, innovating using low resolution video being processed by highly efficient algorithms due to the lack of traditional processing power.

Samsung has finally come clean with their upcoming 7-inch tablet the Galaxy Tab and uploaded an official teaser onto the web.

Smashing Magazine has released a free iPhone application, Color Stream by Sahil Lavingia, geared towards web designers working on designs on the go.

Virgin Mobile is simplifying their pricing plans for their mobile broadband service, Broadband2Go, going into effect August 24th.

Google has started a new beta program to deliver AdSense advertisements for iPad applications. Advertisers with campaigns running on the Google Display Network via Mobile for AdSense will now be able to target applications that run on the iPad.

Word’s on the net that Canon’s PowerShot G11 successor is getting near, the G12. Not much seems to have changed from G11 to G12 other than inclusions of HD video recording (looks to be 720p) and some slight cosmetic changes, ergonomics.

It looks like Nokia’s N900 is slowly reaching its end of life, in preparation for Nokia’s new MeeGo flagship. Now’s the time to buy! Deals are popping up all over the net, it’s clear that the N900′s successor is just, around, the, corner… stay tuned!

The fine folks over at Engadget Spanish received a Nokia Booklet 3G and started cranking the old cam for some pics and vid.

Nokia’s official blog confirmed this morning that the N97 mini will in fact be shipping this week, world wide.

Telus and Bell’s joint HSPA+ Network will be coming online November 5, 2009. Telus has listed their launch devices, with some very nice things in the lineup.

Peter Schneider, posted an update on the N900′s shipping date. Looks like the N900 should start shipping within the following weeks.

Nokia claims that Apple is infringing on 10 of their patents in wireless sectors. All iPhone models since 2007 infringe on these patents.

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