The Nexus One smartphone, also known as the Google Phone, has been billed repeatedly as an iPhone killer, but its sales numbers in the real world are not anywhere near living up to that promise yet.

Most industry analysts have said that AT&T exclusive deal on the iPhone will end some time around the middle of this year, but at least one well-known financial firm’s analysts disagree.

One of the few remaining items on über geeks must-have iPhone apps is about to get real. With this one now scratched off the list, can we know look forward to tethering — perhaps that just too much to ask for?

Apple has issued an update for the iPhone / Touch operating systems to close five security flaws, four of which were sufficiently serious that they would have allowed an exploiter to execute software on the target device.

Even though the Steelers (yunz guyz iz da bes!) decided to give another AFC team a chance to play for the title this year, I’m still keeping up with the preparations and events surrounding this year’s game as the hours count down until kickoff.

A new smartphone market share report is out and it is good news for Apple and the iPhone. During the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple once again took a big bite out of the competition’s share of the marketplace.

Steve Jobs town hall meeting with Apple’s worker bees has yielded more fruit. Although the specifics are quite naturally sparse, Cupertino’s marketing maestros have laid out how they plan to own the news cycle for the next “X” months.

If one just considers the numbers, Ma Bell’s commitment to build out and improve its wireless network is impressive. In fact, the nation’s number two carrier has said it will boost spending by $2 billion to add more towers and backhaul, with an emphasis on improving things in San Francisco and Manhattan.

The volume of user complaints about the coverage and service provided by AT&T’s wireless network have grown, if anything, faster that the number of AT&T iPhone subscribers, which has been rapid indeed.

This has been a bone of contention for years already and even the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got into the act after the open networks group Free Press urged an investigation. Still, it’s been nearly four months since AT&T agreed in principle to allow VOIP over 3G on its network.