Despite the successful rollout of new smartphones like the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre, with more to come this summer, these must be increasingly unsettling days for the wireless industry. The latest threatening cloud is news that the Department of Justice has begun looking into possible antitrust violations within the telecom industry covering areas from landline voice and broadband service to wireless.

The iPhone 3G S can add another accolade -- topping Consumer Reports' latest smartphone ratings. The new Apple device "edged out high-scoring competitors such as the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. But what of reports of the iPhone 3G S being too hot to handle?

Peter Rojas, co-founder of Gizmodo and rival gadget site Engadget, is back with a new consumer tech blog, GDGT. Started with former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block, the new site launching Wednesday will rely heavily on users to provide news and reviews and serve as a sort of social network for technofiles. The geek CBGB?

Palm Pre users are beginning to complain about the smartphone falling apart less than a month after its much-publicized launch. And the new iPhone is quite literally the hottest thing out there -- reports abound about its overheating and even glowing red. With competition intensifying and pressure to meet deadlines and demand for new hit devices growing, are some corners being cut in techland?

Starbucks and the iPhone seem like a natural pairing, like espresso and biscotti, but so far the ubiquitous coffee chain has yet to release its own iPhone app. But the lack of a home-brewed Starbucks app hasn't stopped developers from trying to fill the void.

YouTube has announced that mobile video uploads have increased 400% a day since the release of the iPhone 3G S, and 1,700% over the last six months -- it attributes the gains to new video-enabled phones such as the 3G S on the market, improvements to the upload flow when a video is posted to YouTube from a mobile phone, and a new feature on YouTube that allows videos to be shared more easily via someone's social networks.With titles such as "At grandpa's house," "In a Cambodian liquor store," "Observing carnivorous plants," and "At a wedding," the new UGC is …

The removal of "Hottest Girls" from the iTunes App Store Thursday for containing nudity may have been a blow to soft-core porn fans and First Amendment activists, but it's not likely to upset Sports Illustrated. The Time Inc. magazine plans to launch an iPhone app version of its vaunted swimsuit edition July 7 and doesn't need any added competition from apps featuring topless women.

To the extent that rivals like Palm and BlackBerry want to compete directly with Apple in the growing smartphone market, they should also consider opening their own stores. If they're opening their own app storefronts to compete with the App Store, why not physical stores to compete with Apple's gleaming temples of technology?

Is mobile the newspaper industry's new savior? Martin Nisenholtz, who leads the New York Times Company's digital operations, told Bloomberg Tuesday that the beleaguered newspaper is likely to begin charging for acccess to news on mobile devices as a precursor to doing so on the Web.

Two years ago, CBS promised to "light up" midtown Manhattan with the launch of the CBS Mobile Zone, a WiFi network for connecting laptops, cell phones and other devices to the Web for free. The hot spot would would stretch more than 20 city blocks from Times Square to Central Park South and from 6th Avenue to 8th Avenue. So, does that mean all the people now lounging in lawn chairs and milling around the closed-off Times Square have the added benefit of fast Internet access? Not necessarily.