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The Finnish startup Jolla today unveiled the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, an impressive new platform with its roots in MeeGo OS. But the company still must strike some big distribution deals to survive in an increasingly competitive smartphone market. Read more »

The mobile ad network Millennial Media reports that Amazon's Kindle lineup claims 28 percent of all mobile ad impressions on Android tablets. The looming question is how much Amazon could grow its mobile ad business by producing its own smartphone. Read more »

Google said this week it has expanded handset support for its Wallet to include three smartphones from Sprint and one from US Cellular. But Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile continue to snub the system in favor of their own Isis. Read more »

One of the most important attributes of the mobile app world is the need to be able to iterate fast. IBM's MobileFirst portfolio might be the company's attempt to develop and manage a mobile solution, but it cannot ever be as fast as the market demands. Read more »

Google today unveiled a curated app store for students that features titles categorized by genre and appropriate age. The store -- coupled with an abundance of affordable Android tablets -- should give the search company a substantial edge as it takes on Apple in the schools. Read more »

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins envisions a future where the smartphone serves as a hub for a wide variety of connected devices including tablets and perhaps wearable gadgets. That vision may become reality, but the company can't sacrifice today's tablet market in the meantime. Read more »

T-Mobile USA has quietly upped the price of its iPhone just one month after a high-profile launch. The move may make sense in the bookkeeping department, but it could be costly at a time when the struggling carrier is just beginning to gain momentum. Read more »

A new bill in Congress would require that app developers tell users exactly what kinds of personal data they're using, how they're using it and with whom they're sharing it. The mobile app industry is simply too big and complex to effectively police itself, which is why we're sure to see more of this kind of legislation. Read more »

NPR's new mobile site uses responsive design to create a single website that delivers a solid experience on handsets, tablets and PCs. While responsive design is a great strategy for some media outlets, however, other web publishers should consider dedicated sites for each hardware platform. Read more »

GigaOM Research is teaming up with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway and the European Commission to better understand the potential European opportunity, and to identify potential bottlenecks to growth that EC policies might address. We're kicking off the project with a workshop in Brussels on June 14. Read more »