The United States Department of Justice approved Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this past February, but the massive deal awaited the blessing of one more major regulatory body before it could go through. This past weekend, China’s Ministry of Commerce followed the DOJ’s lead and granted Google permission ...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is selling well in China. In fact, it is selling so well that it left Apple’s iPhone behind on the local market. Michel van der Bel, COO Greater China Region at Microsoft, claims that Windows Phones are already up for a 7 percent ...

We’ve heard that the firmware for Samsung Galaxy S III was leaked a week ahead of the release of the handset and now it appears that the ROM of the quad core Samsung phone gave us a very interesting function/app. I’m talking about the much coveted S Voice, that can ...

Last year, in a short while after Steve Jobs’ passing there was a theory that the Apple guru was less involved in the making of the iPhone 4S and more in the creation of the iPhone 5. This time, Bloomberg has a piece on this matter, making us believe it’s ...

Amazon’s second Kindle Fire tablet, an updated model with a 10-inch display, will launch in the third quarter this year according to a recent report. Backing away from its earlier reports placing the 10-inch Kindle Fire’s launch date in the second quarter, Digitimes on Friday cited market rumors in claiming ...

U.S. Cellular and Samsung have teamed to offer the customers the SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot device. The lightweight device provides customers with high-speed connectivity on U.S. Cellular’s 4G LTE network and enables them to share Internet to up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Samsung SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotsp... (read ...

Analysts repeatedly harp on how important China is for Apple’s iPhone. The Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics giant’s iPhone 4S launched in China earlier this year but despite reports of continuing negotiations, China Mobile — the world’s largest telecom carrier — still does not offer Apple’s iPhone to its massive subscriber ...

Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone may be one of the last products unveiled by the Cupertino, California-based technology giant that was designed by Steve Jobs. The company’s late co-founder and chief executive worked very closely on the retooled iPhone before his untimely passing last October, Bloomberg reports. The news organization also reiterates ...

Recent reports suggested that mobile phone carrier Sprint might have been planning the release of a new LTE-capable flavor of LG Eclipse smartphone, a device that already emerged in a series of leaked images online. With model number LG LS970 attached to it, the smartphone was previously said ...

Last month, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the upcoming availability of its Nokia TV application for devices running under Windows Phone, though confirmed it only for users in its homeland country. Today, we learn that the mobile application is available for download for Nokia Lumia users in ...

HTC One X, the high-end quad-core Android-based mobile phone that HTC made official in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, arrives on shelves with a crippled multitasking experience, recent reports unveil. Apparently, users have discovered that the new tweaks that HTC introduced in HTC One X ...

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just announced that its 4G LTE network would arrive in 28 new markets around the United States as soon as May 17th. Moreover, the wireless operator plans on expanding the available LTE coverage in a series of 11 markets on the same ...