A quick look at Twitter for BlackBerry: "

Look, we know it’s an early beta and we’re extremely greatful to RIM for letting us try out this app before the masses load it onto their devices, but we’re not exactly impressed with Twitter for BlackBerry. We were intially planning to go all out and review the hell out of this app because a lot of people have been begging us for information on this app, but having tinkered with it this morning we’re ultimately concluded that we’re going to do this point-form style:

Report: MetroPCS hires advisers for possible Leap purchase: "
Prepaid wireless player MetroPCS hired a pair of high-powered investment banking firms to advise it on a potential purchase of longtime rival Leap Wireless, according to a Reuters report. Citing unnamed sources, the report said MetroPCS hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Credit Suisse for advice on the action.

Windows Mobile 7 to be announced at MWC 2010, Project Pink phones to arrive this spring?: "

The Wall Street Journal has chimed in and offered their inside information on the Windows Mobile and Project Pink rumors that have been circulating recently. Though it lacks the details of the earlier leaks,

FCC docs hint at a May launch for an AT&T branded Palm Pre: "

In a series of discoveries that would make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proud, Pre Central forum member ToniCipriani may have uncovered the release date for the AT&T version of the Palm Pre. Both the Sprint and the Verizon version of the Pre have passed through the FCC with a confidentiality date that ended on or about the actual launch date. Buried within the FCC documents for a third version of the Palm Pre,

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Report: Microsoft pushes 'Project Pink,' mulls RIM acquisition: "
Microsoft's mobile ambitions are still bright, even though its Windows Mobile platform has lost momentum to other players such as Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Google's Android OS.

Google Buzz takes mobile location services to the next level: "

Google just announced that it's bringing some serious location-based integration to its services, all centered around the new Buzz social networking tool built into Gmail. Google's going to do location better than the usual latitude / longitude coordinates -- it's able to snap those to actual place names and then take context-aware actions depending on where you are. The new location services is integrated into the main mobile Google.com search page and the new buzz.google.com page for the iPhone and Android

UK-based Times Online is reporting that Google is developing a mobile phone service that will have the ability to translate speech, from one language to another, on the fly. Google’s hoping to build off of their text-to-text translation engine — which is currently capable of translating 52 languages