This column brings you the most interesting and useful business and financial commentary on technology from around the Web every day. Reuters: Link: Mobile Phones Sales in 2012 Actually Fell Due to Stiff Smartphone Competition and a Bad Economy "Sales of mobile phones around the world fell last year for the first time since 2009 as consumers shunned cheaper feature phones research company Gartner said on Wednesday. "'Tough economic conditions shifting consumer preferences and intense market competition weakened the worldwide mobile phone market ' Gartner analyst Anshul Gupta said on Wednesday. "Smartphone sales a category dominated by Samsung and ...