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Reuters – India rejected on Monday Research In Motion’s (RIM) offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services, while neighboring Pakistan reversed its earlier decision to restrict the popular smartphone’s services.

Digital Trends – In what might be the corniest product tie in since Owl City performed a song in the animated owl movie Legend of the Guardians, game developer Rovio has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to release a Rio branded version of Angry Birds on Android, iPhone, Nokia (Symbian), and possibly other platforms, this March. The move is an effort by Fox to help Rio, an upcoming original CGI animated film, compete at the beginning of this year’s summer box office season.

PC World – Since Apple introduced the world to the iPad, the tablet rivalry has been heated between iOS and Android. The problem, though–for Android at least–is that the rivalry was filled with idle speculation and vaporware compared to the blockbuster real-world sales for the iPad. With the impending launch of Android 3.0, a.k.a. “Honeycomb”–designed specifically for tablets–perhaps Android’s tablet fortunes will change.

PC World – Shipments of Android-based smartphones reached 32.9 million worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2010, making Android the best-selling operating system for smartphones, market research company Canalys said on Monday.

PC World – Welcome to the first week of February (well, almost), aka the slowest month of the year for video games. Not to slight poor Kevin Van Dam Fishing (PS3), but when one of your story leads involves a game that lets you pro-angle largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass for tournament play, well, caution. And when the Wii version supported motion controls last November, but this version eschews PlayStation Move support entirely, warning.

Mashable – Google’s mobile platform Android has overtaken Symbian to become the top smartphone platform in Q4 2010, research firm Canalys reports.

Mashable – We’re still waiting for Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, which is supposed to be the first version of the platform aimed at tablets, but Android tablets on the whole are doing quite well, at least according to the latest numbers by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Reuters – Japan’s Toshiba Corp more than doubled its quarterly operating profit on booming sales of NAND flash memory chips and robust demand for LCD panels used in smartphones and tablets.

Mashable – We’re still waiting for Android 3.0 or Honeycomb, which is supposed to be the first version of the platform aimed at tablets, but Android tablets on the whole are doing quite well, at least according to the latest numbers by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

PC World – With the recent announcement that, at long last, Apple’s iPhone is coming to Verizon Wireless’s CDMA network, arguments are blazing over which smartphone operating system reigns supreme. Many Verizon customers are asking themselves whether they should stick with the carrier’s Android devices or jump ship to iOS.