Instead, Google thinks it's found a win-win situation, because it sees cloud-based services like Gmail making the mobile world go 'round.

The traditional phonebook has become a relic of times past to many mobile users. The tome of thin pages with contact information and advertisements for local services doesn’t serve well the person on-the-go. As more and more phonebooks go unread, perhaps the way for Yellow Page providers to recover is to adjust to an evolving audience. Incorporating mobile-friendly short codes and 2D barcodes into new phonebooks could reintroduce local services to additional generations of users.

A new study released on Tuesday indicates that about 23 percent of all handset sales in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2008 were smartphones. This was up from 12 percent of all handset sales in the fourth quarter of 2007.

In April, Cisco will launch Cisco IronPort E-mail Security services with the goal of giving businesses the opportunity to choose from three different approaches to e-mail security – managed, hosted or a combination of on-premise and cloud-based security.

Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets described a future scenario where the mobile device—which can no longer be accurately described as a phone—acts as the central hub for the connected home.

Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification.

Zoho is an Office Productivity Suite from AdventNet Inc. Founded in 1996, AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. AdventNet focuses on building affordable software for businesses.

Palm may have wowed the public with the demonstration of the Pre, but unfortunately for the company, no one can buy it yet.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt anticipates mobile search revenues will surpass search on the PC within the next several years, "not decades," citing the increasing sophistication and affordability of smartphones as the catalyst behind the paradigm shift.

Online retail giant Amazon.com will introduce a free Kindle e-book application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, offering consumers full access to more than 240,000 premium digital titles.