The mobile market appears to belong to Android and iOS while the market for lawsuits related to mobiles is owned by Microsoft. Or so the headlines of the year would seem to indicate.

Mozilla released Firefox 9 then discovered a couple of bugs. The bugs have now been fixed and version 9.0.1 is now available.

PhatWare Corporation has released WritePad 6.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. WritePad 6.0 now features multilingual handwriting recognition for seven languages, including English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Smartphones are popular. They’re also expensive, both for initial cost and service contracts. Then there are the exploits targeting the devices.

AT&T offers some tips on recognizing and avoiding messaging scams. This page also includes links for reporting such scams to U.S. agencies.

Intel’s design specifications may say the new device is not an “Ultrabook” but, at this price, it might still be a nice, lightweight laptop.

Dr. Raymond Soneira tested the displays for Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Apple’s iPad 2, and Barnes & Noble’s latest Nook. This article reviews his technical findings and includes a link to the full study.

Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich will be released to Samsung’s Galaxy S II users early next year. Samsung will start with smartphone updates before pushing Android 4.0 to their tablets.

The Tablet P is a clam-shell computer, with two 5.5-inch touch screens, that folds up to measure 79 x 158 x 26mm and weighs 372g. It uses Android 3.2 Honeycomb on a 1GHz dual-core ARM chip.

Facebook was designed so you could connect with your friends. But some people seem to be out to collect as many “friends” as possible just to be able to brag about it. This article explains how to handle such “friends”.