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.