Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY game controller now supported by OnLive
Owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY smartphone, the world’s first PlayStation-certified smartphone, have something new to play with, as OnLive has announced that it has built compatibility with the...
View ArticleC Spire picks up Motorola Milestone X2
C Spire Wireless has announced that is now offering the Motorola Milestone X2 smartphone. The Milestone X2 is a re-branded version of the DROID X2 that Verizon Wireless released earlier this year. Read...
View ArticleDell Streak 5 updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread
The Dell Streak 5, Dell’s original smartphone/tablet hybrid, may be discontinued, but the company is doing good to support its customers, as it has just released the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for...
View ArticleRIM responds to BBM trademark lawsuit
Last week, a Canadian company brought a lawsuit against RIM over the use of “BBM” as an abbreviation for BlackBerry Messenger. BBM Canada, a broadcasting company, claimed that it had been using BBM in...
View ArticleLG to upgrade high-end Optimus smartphones to Android 4.0 ICS starting in Q2...
LG already revealed that it plans to upgrade its high-end Optimus smartphones released in 2011 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but now we have a more concrete time period that users can expect to...
View ArticleSamsung expects to sell 374 million mobile phones in 2012
According to the Korea Economic Daily, citing industry officials, Samsung expects to sell 15 percent more mobile phones in 2012 than it did in 2011. The company projects that it will move 374 million...
View ArticleSamsung reportedly reevaluating Android 4.0 ICS upgrade plans for Galaxy S, Tab
Last week, Samsung caused quite a ripple in the blogosphere when it announced that it would not be upgrading the original Galaxy S smartphone or the 7-inch Galaxy Tab to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich...
View ArticleNTT DoCoMo teams with Samsung, others to develop mobile processors
Japan’s largest wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, has announced a new joint venture partnership with five hardware manufacturers to develop processors for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones....
View ArticleU.S. Patent Office deals Oracle a blow in Java patent fight with Google’s...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected 17 of the 21 patent claims levied against Google and its Android operating system by Oracle. Oracle had taken Google to court claiming that...
View ArticleGSM security flaw exposes users to hijacked calls, text messages
The head of Security Research Labs in Germany, Karsten Nohl, says that there is a security vulnerability in GSM phones that could allow them to be compromised by hackers to send rogue text messages or...
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