• U.S. Cellular today announced availability of the HTC Desire smartphone. The Android-powered handsets began selling today in stores and online at uscellular.com. U.S. Cellular is offering the HTC Desire for $199.95 after $70 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract.
• Aruba Networks, provider of distributed enterprise network solutions, today released financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended July 31, 2010. The company reported revenues for Q4 2010 of $77.3 million, an increase of 45 percent from the $53.3 million reported a year ago. GAAP net income for the quarter was $0.4 million, or $0.00 per share, compared to a net loss of $4.5 million, or $0.05 per share, in the same quarter last year.
• Verizon Wireless plans to buy 700 MHz C Block spectrum in Alaska from Triad, according to a public notice filed yesterday with the FCC. The spectrum would allow the operator to complete its nationwide LTE footprint and would give it spectrum in Alaska for the first time, said a company spokeswoman.
• ABI Research predicts the global number of consumer telematics users will reach 211 million by 2015 due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. There wer just 37 million consumer telematics users this year, according to the research firm's estimates.
• Blabbelon, a provider of a web-based voice chat, has today announced the availability of the Blabbelon iPhone app. With this app, iPhone users can create a voice chat room for friends and family to chat. The company says its technology represents one of the first mobile uses of SILK, a super wideband and low footprint audio codec from Skype.
• ComScore says young adult males factor prominently in the increase in Europeans accessing dating sites on their mobile phones. Of the nearly 11 million users accessing mobile dating services each month, 22 percent are males between the ages of 25-34 years old, compared to just 8.7 percent of females in the same age group. The June 2010 data from comScore shows that across Europe there has been a 52 percent increase in mobile access to dating sites since June 2009.