• Google accelerates Android browser updates with mobile Chrome

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 February, 2012 12:36

  Google's launch today of Chrome for Android may be a move to accelerate the pace of browser updates, an analyst said.

• Preview: Prada Phone by LG 3.0

  By Ross Catanzariti | 08 February, 2012 11:09

  The Prada Phone by LG 3.0 is the third smartphone LG has developed in collaboration with Italian fashion label Prada.

• Samsung: Galaxy S III won't be unveiled next month

  By Ross Catanzariti | 08 February, 2012 09:17

  Samsung has moved quickly to denounce rumours suggesting its upcoming Galaxy S III smartphone would be unveiled at a scheduled media event in France on March 22.

• Google Chrome headed for Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices

  By Brad Reed | 08 February, 2012 08:26

  Google's popular Chrome browser is finally coming to Android-based phones, but only if you have the very latest version of the operating system.

• FTC warns makers of background checking apps

  By Grant Gross | 08 February, 2012 06:39

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.

• Smartphone security: Keep your handset safe

  By Brent Rose | 12 January, 2011 02:07

  Once upon a time, a phone was just a phone: It simply made and received calls. The only security you worried about was if someone had picked up in the other room to listen in.

• BlackBerry 6: Wipe Your Smartphone, Restore Factory Settings

  By Al Sacco | 15 December, 2010 07:11

  Many reasons exist for why you might want or need to "security wipe" a BlackBerry, or completely erase all personal data stored on your handheld: You got a new smartphone and plan to retire the older device; you're trading in your existing BlackBerry for a new one from your wireless carrier; you and a friend are swapping devices; you loaded too many applications or media and just want to start over from scratch; etc.

• Free BlackBerry apps: Nine Torch 9800 compatible downloads

  By Al Sacco | 01 November, 2010 15:20

  Check out the following slides for a list of nine valuable applications for the BlackBerry Torch 9800. Best of all: You’ll never have to open your wallet; all of these BlackBerry apps are free.

• 7 smartphone disasters that could happen to you

  By Shane O'Neill | 31 August, 2010 11:51

  Like all technology, smartphones can be hugely useful. However, some of the time they provide opportunities for tech-tinged embarrassment. We tracked down seven of the most unfortunate mobile phone disaster tales we could find. The stories are fun to laugh at now, but most of them were anything but amusing when they actually occurred...

• How to restore an iPhone

  By Chris Byers | 13 August, 2010 02:19

  QUESTION I've bought a number of apps for my Apple iPhone via iTunes and the App Store. To avoid draining the battery by downloading apps directly to the handset, I'd like to connect my iPhone to my Windows XP PC using USB and transfer them over. However, when I connect the phone its icon doesn't appear on the desktop (although it does charge up). I've tried updating iTunes, restarting the PC and using a different USB port, all to no avail.

• HTC Velocity 4G speedtest

  By Ross Catanzariti | 24 January, 2012 15:40

  The HTC Velocity 4G promises data speeds of up to five times faster than its competitors, but is it really that fast? We put it to the test.

• A first look at the Nokia Lumia 800

  By Ross Catanzariti | 20 January, 2012 11:39

  Nokia's Lumia 800 represents somewhat of a new dawn for the struggling giant. It's the first phone to use the Windows Phone platform, following Nokia's decision early last year to partner with Microsoft for many of its future smartphones.

• 2011's biggest security snafus

  By Ellen Messmer | 02 December, 2011 06:27

  Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.

• What smartphones will be like in 2012

  By Jared Newman | 12 November, 2011 01:31

  Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.

• Apple and Samsung: What's behind the patent fight

  By Jonny Evans | 06 October, 2011 05:45

  Samsung took a step toward finding a kind of "pax tabletica" with arch-foe Apple in an Australian court last week, offering to remove features from its Galaxy Tab to avoid a court ban on sales of the device in that country. But what's really interesting about the case isn't the technical litigation, but the underlying attempt to define how much of a product's design is actually protected under existing, fragmented international laws.

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