Samsung Galaxy S4 to be unveiled on March 14 in New York

We just got yet another report that the Samsung Galaxy S IV will be announced in mid March. The rumored upcoming flagship smartphone of the South Korean manufacturer is going to be unveiled on March, according to a report by Mobile Review's Eldar Murtazin.

HTC teases its flagship hours before the announcement

With only hours left till the official announcement, HTC released yet another teaser of its upcoming Android flasghip. The image on the Taiwanese company's official Facebook reveals just a tiny smidge from the device, peaking from under a cloth with tomorrow's date embroidered on it.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 priced to compete with iPad mini, rumored to launch in March

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has leaked so frequently in the past couple of months (heck, even Samsung’s head of Mobile Communications confirmed it), that the device may as well be out already.

Sony promotes the Xperia Z with Make Magic video ads in Japan

Sony has been the star of the season so far with its amazing feature set. Sony Xperia Z is setting up for a globally release and the company has kicked off its marketing campaign.

Sony Xperia Z goes up for pre-order on Vodafone UK website

Vodafone UK has put up on their website the Sony Xperia Z smartphone for pre-order .

Google to be opening retail stores by end of the year

Google will be opening its own chain of retail stores in the US by the end of the year around holiday shopping season.

Image of HTC One in Black leaks out

HTC’s launch for its flagship One handset is less than a week away, and while we recently saw the device codenamed M7 in its silver garb, we’re now getting a first look at the black incarnation.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 confirmed by Bluetooth.org

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, which was confirmed by the Samsung head, is very likely to be launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, as the tablet has been officially listed on the Bluetooth.org website.

Samsung has released kernel source code of Jelly Bean for Galaxy S II

Samsung has recently started rolling out the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II to give it the same Nature UX experience as its successor. Now, the Koreans have open sourced the kernel used for the update, which will help developers of custom ROMs.

Opera acquires Skyfire Labs for $155 million

Opera has announced that it has acquired Skyfire Labs, the company that made the Skyfire browser for mobile, for $155 million. The acquisition will allow Opera access to Skyfire’s Rocket Optimizer Software.

Samsung to manufacture 100 million Galaxy S IV phones

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is guaranteed to be one of the hottest sellers and after crushing the numbers, analysts have predicted that the next Samsung flagship might cause headaches to Apple.

Apple acknowledges Exchange bugs in iOS 6.1, promises to fix them shortly

Apple is having a horror time with its latest version of iOS, but the company has promised to fix the issues with an upcoming software update. Apple claims to have identified the issue, which was affecting the Microsoft Exchange support and will be addressing it shortly.

Infinity Blade is now free for ios users

Infinity Blade, the most popular sword fighting game developed exclusively for iDevices, is now available for free as a part of Apple’s app of the week promotion.

PS4 controller leaks, has a built-in touchpad

The PS4 rumors are swirling thick and fast, with February 20 widely being regarded as the day Sony will finally unveil its next generation console. The latest news on that front is that someone managed to take a picture of a working PS4 controller prototype, which has got some new tricks up its sleeve compared to the PS3 controller.

Samsung provides an overview of the LITTLE ARM architecture of Exynos 5 Octa

Last month, Samsung  announced the Exynos 5 Octa, an eight-core behemoth of a mobile processor that uses four Cortex A7 and four Cortex A15 cores on a single chip. Samsung has now uploaded a video that provides an overview of how this multi-core processor works.

Samsung launches REX series of budget feature phones in India

Samsung has launched a new range of low budget phones in India. Called the REX, the series includes four models: REX 60, REX 70, REX 80 and REX 90.

Google Now has updated with widgets and new cards

Google Now is pretty handy, but you need to check either the notification area of the app itself to see the cards. Not very good for at-a-glance info, is it? This is why the fourth update of Now brings the handy service in widget form.

WhatsApp update its UI and brings Holo theme to the Android

Most popular instant messaging messenger WhatsApp has updates it's major UI redesign on Android. While the old version was nothing more than just a slight revision of the iOS app, the this new update takes advantage of the new Holo UI guidelines for Android.

Microsoft Xbox 360 sales crossed 76 million units as Kinect sales reach 24 million

The sales of Microsoft Xbox 360 have surpassed 76 million units, according to Larry Hryb, the director of programming for Xbox.

Watch HTC One or M7 teaser clips in one video

HTC has been releasing teaser clips on its official website for some time now that show bits and pieces of the upcoming HTC One, also known as the HTC M7.

SwiftKey Flow Beta updated with swipe-based predictive typing

SwiftKey,  most popular keyboard alternatives for Android has updated the beta version of its next major release. The update promises to resolve the force close issues along with numerous other bugs.

Google will pay Apple $1 billion for default search engine in iOS for 2014

Apple has been pushing hard to scrub all traces of Google from its iOS cash cow (including dropping Google Maps in a controversial move), but it seems that Google is willing to pay big lumps of cash to stay on.

According to analysts at Morgan Stanley, the Mountain View-based company will give Apple $1 billion to stay the default search engine on iOS. Yes, Google is still the default search provider, even though the Google branding was removed from Safari in iOS v4.0.

The wad of cash was much smaller in 2009 – only $82 million. Why the change? The Google-Apple deal is per device and iOS devices have multiplied many times since 2009.

LG officially revealed Optimus G Pro with 5.5" 1080p

LG  wraps off the 5.5" 1080p display toting Optimus G Pro. The Android beast, while carrying the same name as the already official Japan-only device, is an altogether different character.

LG has launched a portable charger PMC-510 for smartphones

The portable chargers have been selling pretty well lately and understandably major manufacturers want to be a part of that business.As smartphones start to pay more and more important part of our lives it gets more important than ever that their batteries don’t give up on us in critical moment.  LG has unveiled a portable charged named PMC-510 that should give you that extra autonomy when you are on the go.

New Nexus 4 Ad showing Google Now

Google has been releasing some great ads for its products in the past couple of years. The ads for the Nexus devices in particular have been very good.

Real Racing 3 will be free when it lands on Android and iOS

This particular news surely caught me by surprise, folks! Firemonkey’s highly anticipated Real Racing 3 video game will be available for free when it launches on Android and iOS on February 28. The word was delivered by Nick Earl – Electronic Arts’ senior vice president for mobile and social game development.

The first Microsoft Surface Pro TV ad

Microsoft launched the Surface Pro slate just two days ago and its 128GB edition is already out of stock. However, this hasn’t stopped Microsoft’s ad campaign for the tablet and we just got to see its first TV commercial.

One million Nexus 4 units already shipped according to owners

The sales of the LG-built Google Nexus 4 have reached a million units, according to the owners of the smartphones. The members on the XDA Developer forum have worked a way out to make an educated guess on the smartphone shipments on the basis of its IMEI number.

Evasi0n’s tool jailbreaks 7 million iOS devices in four days

It looks like the recently launched iOS 6.1 jailbreak tool evasi0n has been doing quite well, people! Cydia’s creator Jay Freeman told Forbes that the tool has been used to hack 7 million iOS devices since its release a few days ago.

Mailbox now available on first-come first-serve basis for iPhone

 One of the much awaited third party email client application for iPhone is finally available on App Store. The application currently supports Gmail only and is taking reservations on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Skype 4.5 rolls out for iPhone and iPad

Skype has updated its iPhone and iPad app to version 4.5 bringing some new features as well as the  bug fixes and performance improvements.

EA has released Origin client for OS X

EA has now released the final stable version of the Origin store client for Apple’s OS X platform.

Twitter updates search and UI in Android app

Twitter has updated the versions of their mobile apps, with the Android version getting the more  changes. Among the list of improvements common to both iOS and Android versions is a new Discover view, which shows a single stream of tweets, trends, activity and accounts to follow.

Sprint Galaxy S III for $0.01 and Galaxy Note II available for $140 now

Amazon has got a treat today for those of you in the US hoping to score a new Galaxy S III or Note II on a bargain price.

Apple’s iTunes store hits 25 billionth downloaded song

Apple just announced that the store has officially reached 25 billion song downloads.

ASUS Intel powered 7-inch Fonepad tablet rumored for at MWC

The device, known only as the Asus ME371MG back then, was said to be an Android slate with a projected price tag of $200 to $250. An official announcement seemed likely to take place at CES, but the tablet was, unfortunately, nowhere to be found at the Asus booth. 

Here’s how the evasi0n jailbreak works

Have you ever thought about how the latest evasi0n jailbreak actually works and what it took the evad3rds team members to overcome the hardened defenses of Apple’s latest devices? One of the team members, David Wang, a.k.a. @planetbeing, who was one of the two people who were personally responsible for finding the exploit in Apple’s code, sat down for an interview with fellow tech journalists and explained the whole process.

Amazon announces Amazon Coins, a new virtual currency for purchasing apps and games on Kindle Fire

Amazon has announced Amazon Coins for Kindle Fire owners, which will provide them a new way to purchase apps, games and in-app content on their devices.

Instagram launches web feed

Back when Instagram was started, the only web presence the company had was a single page for each of the images that you uploaded from their web app and nothing else (not counting the blog). This was rectified a few months ago, when they released web profiles, that allowed you to check full profiles of users on the website with all their pictures.

BlackBerry Z10 Dev Alpha C launched for app developers

BlackBerry has launched a new Dev Alpha C program along with a new developer-only device at its Jam European event held in Amsterdam. The Dev Alpha program is intended to help the coders build applications for the BlackBerry devices with physical keyboards.

OUYA console to hit retail outlets in June for $99.99

OUYA, the Kickstarter funded Android based game console is now in its final stages. According to CEO Julie Uhrman, the console will start shipping to Kickstarter backers in March.

Lewis Hamilton brings the BlackBerry Z10

The new Formula 1 season is right around the corner and guess what has Mercedes F1 team new driver Lewis Hamilton brought along to the official launch of the car he and Nico Rosberg will be driving in 2013? Unfortunately, if you guessed Nicole Scherzinger, you are wrong.

Samsung’s full Super Bowl ad now on YouTube

Now that the Super Bowl is done and over, the companies that aired their ads during the game are releasing them full length on Hulu, YouTube and whatnot.

Temple Run: Oz the Great and Powerful releasing on February 27

Temple Run is already a smash hit on both iOS and Android, and it’s only been two weeks since it was released. Following in the footsteps of Temple Run: Brave, the new game will reportedly revolve around the story and the characters from the upcoming movie Oz the Great and Powerful.

Iron Man 3 ‘Extended’ trailer

Walt Disney Studios showcased an ‘extended’ trailer of their upcoming superhero movie, Iron Man 3, during the Super Bowl. Why the word ‘extended’ is in quotes is something you will have to see for yourself when you watch the trailer.

‘Little Inferno’ for iPad game review

Little Inferno made its public debut last year as one of the launch titles for the Nintendo Wii U. Made by the designers of the popular game World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth, the game was lauded for its unique gameplay and won many awards. After that it was released on Steam and has now made an appearance on the mobile platform with the iPad version.

Samsung’s ad looks for the Next Big Thing with Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and LeBron James

The full Samsung Super Bowl ad is now out and stars Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd (and several Samsung Galaxy gadgets, of course). The two comedy actors are trying to figure out an ad for the “Next Big Thing” – and there’s a surprice cameo from LeBron James too.

Twitter is sending E-mails to 250k users for changing their passwords

Asus ME301T MemoPad 10 images leak

Only a few days into this year several Asus tablets leaked – a couple of 7” models and a 10” one. The 7-inchers are already official, but their larger sibling is not. Its press images come ahead of the official announcement though, so here’s the Asus ME301T MemoPad 10.

Temple Run 2 reaches 50 million downloads in 13 days

Angry Birds Space just got stripped from its fastest growing mobile game laurels. Imangi Studios’ Temple Run 2 snagged the title away from Rovio by hitting 50 million downloads in 13 days – a cool 22 days quicker than what it took Angry Birds Space.