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Google, Motorola Officially Get Hitched The U.S. Department of Justice today officially blessed the marriage between Google and Motorola after concluding that the merger would not adversely impact competition in the wireless market.
Cricket ZTE Chorus Review: A Simple Phone, but Good for Music The ZTE Chorus is a decent buy if you're looking for an inexpensive music phone.
Droid 4 Teardown: Four Findings iFixit takes apart the Motorola Droid 4.
Geek 101: What Is Jailbreaking? Jailbreaking is a hack that frees your iDevice from Apple’s restrictions. What does that actually do and why on earth would anyone do it?
TheO Lets You Play Ball With Your Phone… Safely It looks like the world’s goofiest-looking phone protector, but TheO combines a foam ball that wraps around your phone with apps that take advantage of its motion sensor to let you play with your smartphone like it was a toy.
Steve Jobs Gets Posthumous Grammy A Grammy Trustees Award recognizes the late Apple CEO's role in creating products that transformed the entertainment industry.
Is It Too Late to Save RIM? New Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has a small window of opportunity to resuscitate the long-stumbling smartphone maker.
HP Readies Open-Source WebOS Release Hewlett-Packard announced plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License 2.0.
First Look: MediaTek MT6575 Platform for Android Designed for entry and mid-level Ice Cream Sandwich phones, the MT6575 chipset offers a 1GHz ARM Cortext-A9 processor, a 3G/HSPA modem and supports qHD displays.
Apple Files Complaint against Motorola in US to Prevent IPhone 4S Litigation Apple has asked a federal court in California for an order enjoining Motorola Mobility from suing the company in other courts for patent infringement.
Petitioners Urge Apple to Address Factory Working Conditions Activists deliver petitions seeking labor reform in overseas factories that produce iPhones, iPads, and other popular Apple products.
Google Wallet Suspends Prepaid Credit Card Functions A security flaw in the wallet's design reveals an unauthorized user of a phone could tap into an existing balance by reconfiguring the wallet's settings.
iTunes Match Confusion Explored Here are answers to some nagging questions about the popular Apple service.
25 Techie Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas From subtle geekery to blatantly techie devices, Valentine’s Day gifts suit a range of personalities.
Apple Files Another US Patent Suit Against Samsung Apple wants a federal judge to halt sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, specifically targeting Ice Cream Sandwich as infringing on Apple patents.
Four Ways Apple Could Improve the iOS Experience With just a few small changes, Apple could make iOS and the App Store markedly better.
6 Mobile Apps That Can Keep You Current on Election If you're one of those who really wants to follow the play-by-play as it happens -- the debates, the ads, the back-and-forth on the talk shows, the Twitter conversations -- the best way to do it is via your mobile device.
Acer Shows Off CloudMobile Smartphone Ahead of Mobile World Congress The new Acer CloudMobile has just won the iF design award--and Acer couldn't let that go by unnoticed.
Android Love: 12 Free Apps for Valentine's Day Check out these free Android apps designed to help you find the best flowers, chocolates, rom-coms, love poems, dinner reservations, mood music, more. (All apps are Cupid approved.)
Motorola Mobility Fails to Make Patent Case Against Apple in German Court A German court has thrown out a Motorola Mobility patent lawsuit against Apple, breaking a recent run of courtroom successes for the company.
Victory for Apple: German Court Denies Motorola Patent Claim Apple products don't infringe on Motorola's wireless technology and shouldn't be barred from sale, judge rules.
Google Wallet Flaw Allows Digital Pickpocket A newly identified security vulnerability doesn't require a rooted phone, as with an earlier glitch.
Disguise Your iPhone as the First Macintosh With These Retro Cases Schreer Delights’ line of retro cases makes your iPhone look like the original Macintosh, the first iPod, or PowerPC Macs.
UPDATE: Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN, which is required of users to confirm purchases made with their phones, can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
Path to Forgiveness After Apology a Hard Sell The problem is social networking smartphone app Path seems to have known full well that storing a user's entire address book was the wrong thing to do.