Twitter is taking advantage of Google’s new system for beta testing apps to offer a new version of the social media app to willing testers.

Digg, the social news service and RSS reader has launched an Android app.

South Korean newspaper ET News has reported that tech giant Samsung is considering switching from plastic to metal casing for their smartphones.

Crowded funded startup company Pressy has developed a programmable button that can be added to Android smartphones via a headphone jack.

A study has revealed that more mobile apps are being produced outside the US than within it.

A video showing a working unit of the upcoming Blackberry Z30 phablet has been released by 4Leakz.

The US based International Data Corporation has lowered it’s predictions for how many tablet devices will ship by the end of the year.

Flickr has released an update for its iOS app which includes enhanced filters and makes the formerly premium ‘pro-tools’ feature free.

HTC’s rumoured upcoming phablet, the HTC One Max will feature a fingerprint scanner, if images leaked on website eprice are to be believed.

Following in the footsteps of EE, O2 and Vodafone’s 4G networks went live today.

A photograph of what is claimed to be an upcoming handset from Nokia – the Lumia 1520 – has been leaked online.

The new Nokia 515 phone was released today in Moscow, Russia by the Finnish handset manufacturer. The 515 is not part of the Lumia range, and is clearly targeted at users looking for a simpler, and cheaper, smartphone experience. Priced at just ‚¬115 (just under £100) the device comes with a 2.4 inch non-touch display […]

Taiwanese tech firm HTC is reportedly in talks with the Chinese government to build a mobile operating system custom made for the Chinese market.

Just 1 in 10 Britons stick within the bounds of their mobile contract each month, with the average overspender paying £219 per year in excess charges.

The Moto X is being billed as the first smartphone fully constructed in the USA, but this could mean and extra $4-5 on the price of each handset.

In the wake of Blackberry’s financial turmoil, one of the company’s biggest success stories may be looking to go it alone.

LG has released a video teasing their upcoming tablet device, the LG G Pad 8.3.

Official user guides for BBM on Android and iOS are released on the Blackberry website.

Samsung has confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in the tech world by officially announcing the Galaxy Gear in an interview with the Korea Times.

Images have surfaced on Chinese social media website Weibo that claim to show an upcoming Motorola handset that includes a slide out qwerty keyboard.

Images released by Sonny Dickson suggest that a grey iPhone 5S will be available along with black, white and gold models.

After 13 years at the helm of one of the largest tech firms in the world, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that he plans to leave the role.

4 million units of Samsung’s upcoming phablet, the Galaxy Note III are set to launch running Snapdragon 800 processors rather than Samsung’s own Exynos 5420 CPU.

Sony have released two images via Twitter, teasing the upcoming Xperia Z1 Honami smartphone ahead of its launch at the IFA conference this September.

As Sony gears up to launch their next generation NEX-5T camera next week, images posted on Sony Alpha Rumours gave us a sneak peek at the device.

Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone is now the second most popular mobile OS in Latin America.

A survey has shown that the average child in the UK gets their first mobile phone aged 12, but over 1 million receive their first handset before they’re 5.

Omate, a smartwatch concept seeking funding on the website Kickstarter has reached its goal of $100,000 in a single day. The New York based company began seeking investors yesterday and has already exceeded its original goal reaching $164,000 at last count. The Omate Truesmart comes amid a raft of new wrist-mounted devices, including high profile […]

If bling isn’t your thing then the latest leaked photos from Apple should assuage your fears, showing as they do, a decidedly understated gold iPhone 5S.

Blackberry review website Berry Review has revealed that a single developer has produced almost 1/3 of the apps available for Blackberry devices.

Samsung’s much rumoured upcoming smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, is rumoured to be released in five colour variants.

After struggling to attract investors the Ubuntu Edge smartphone has failed to hit its crowdfunding target in the time allowed, ending the campaign.

A new report has surfaced claiming that the iPhone 5S and 5C will be available to the public from September 20th, 10 days after they are due to launch.

New details have emerged on what we can expect to see from the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch on its September 4th launch.

Motorola’s promise to offer Moto X handset with a personal engraving feature has had to be pushed back due to technical issues with the engraving process.

A US developer has created an app for Google Glass that allows users to compare prices on goods by scanning the barcode.

A survey from Customer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has shown that 20% of Apple’s customers over the last year were switched from Android phones.

If you want to grab a quick snap of whatever happens to be on your smartphone screen you could find another camera and take a picture of your phone’s screen. Or, if you want to look less like a luddite, you could take a screenshot.

The runaway success that is headphone manufacturer Beats is reportedly looking to buyout HTC’s 25% stake in the company.

A Techcrunch blogger has reported that ‘multiple sources’ have assured him that Apple will be launching a gold iPhone 5S when the next generation device becomes available this September.

More than 250 job vacancies have been advertised in China by California based tech company Apple.

Rumours have emerged from Vietnam that LG are on board to manufacture the upcoming Google Nexus 5 smartphone.

An anonymous source has claimed that Samsung is getting ready to launch its much rumoured smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, with a release date of September 4th.

Twitter is testing a new feature that takes advantage of hashtags you are using to provide information about events happening near users.

Microsoft and Google have found themselves in a row over the release of a Youtube app for the Windows Phone operating system.

Facebook is planning to trial their own mobile-payments system, allowing customers to make payments on mobile apps using their Facebook login information.

North Korea claims to have produced its first home grown smartphone, the Arirang ‘hand phone’ in a report from the state broadcaster.

Sales figures released today by tech giant Lenovo have revealed that, for the first time, more of their business comes from smartphones and tablets than from PC’s.

Version 7.0 of the Yelp app was released yesterday, with the notable inclusion of the ability to submit reviews of local businesses from within the app itself. The new update has been released first on iOS with Android set to follow soon. The upgrade marks a change in policy for Yelp compared to back in […]

O2 has finally revealed pricing details for their upcoming 4G network, available from August 29th, with the cheapest contracts starting from £26 per month.

A report today has revealed that for the first time global sales of smartphones surpassed those of feature phones with, Samsung leading the change.

The much-rumoured iPhone Light (or iPhone 5C as it’s now known) has been tipped to launch with a £200 price tag according to leak published by AppleInsider.

Apple have drafted an October release date for the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad 5, just in time for the Christmas rush, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Homestyler allows users to take an photograph of a room, upload it to their phone or tablet and add realistic 3D items from the Homestyler gallery.

The Galaxy Note III, pegged to launch at the IFA conference in Berlin this September, has had its technical specifications leaked online.

Sony are bucking the trend among mobile manufacturers by developing attachable lens cameras for use with tablets and smartphones, a new leak has confirmed.

HTC announced today that Robert Downey Junior has signed a 2 year deal with the handset manufacturer as part of their ‘Change’ rebrand.

The ZTE Open, budget smartphone, the first handset to run the Mozilla OS, will soon be available in the UK through eBay for a rock-bottom £60.

Canadian handset manufacturer Blackberry have announced that they are ‘exploring strategic alternatives’ including selling the company.

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled in favour of Apple in the case of two patents the California based-tech company claims were infringed on by Samsung.

NBC has purchased Stringwire, a mobile-video streaming website, allowing them to easily gather user-generated content from around the world.

3 documents concerning the US government’s gathering of telephonic data have been released, after being officially declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

An infographic from OpenSignal, a company that monitors signal strength and mobile coverage, has visualised Samsung’s dominance of the Android market.

Blackberry has lost one of its biggest UK business customers with drinks supplier Britvic deciding to make the switch to Lumia devices and Nokia services.

Google Glass users are being offered the chance to invite a friend to help test the wearable computers, according to reports emerging from Google+.

The code used to create the iOS 7 Beta has revealed that new iPhone models such as the 5s and 6 will feature a fingerprint scanner.

A new Apple patent for a triple lens, triple sensor iPhone Camera that will offer better colour accuracy and higher quality images has been revealed.

A recently uncovered Chinese Labor Watch report has revealed what may be new details on a much rumoured plastic iPhone.

Finnish manufacturer Nokia has made a deal with UK operator O2 to begin stocking the Nokia 301 without a charger as standard, coming only with a USB cable.

A trailer for ‘Escape’, purportedly one of the first games designed for Google Glass has appeared on Youtube.

Despite tablet devices running Android holding a majority share in the market, Google’s Hugo Barra has said “the Android ecosystem has been lagging behind”.

The Yahoo fantasy football game has relaunched, following an upgrade for the online game which features social media integration and real-time updates.

A 21 year old man has been arrested after he made rape threats via Twitter towards feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.

Google have announced that they are working on technology that would allow seamless, real-time translation during a phone conversation.

It’s been a busy day for the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note III with leaks on its specifications and the news that it could be available in 5.5″ 5.7″ and 6″ variants. Engadget reported that technology blogger @techkiddy released an image which shows a manifesto for Galaxy Note III shipments in a variety of   screen […]

Following two incidents in China in which iPhone users were seriously electrocuted after answering their devices while they were charging, Apple has issued a statement via its Chinese site advising iPhone users to only use genuine Apple chargers. A 23 year old woman (Ma Ailun) was killed while a 30 year old man (Wu Jiantong) […]

Channel 4 is bringing the convenience of offline viewing to their mobile app allowing Android and iOS users to download shows broadcast in the past 30 days.

Apple are losing ground in the global smartphone market, accounting for just 14% of shipments, despite overall growth in the industry.

An alleged release date of September 18th has been announced for the much-rumoured new handsets from Apple – the iPhone 5S and the iPhone Light.

Blackberry has laid off 250 staff from its Product Testing and R&D offices in Waterloo, Canada. The story was broken today by Canada’s CTV News. The stricken company laid off 5000 staff last year and with the latest news of yet more redundancies it seems that 2013 is set to follow form, if perhaps not […]

Sony has announced that several of its handsets will soon begin running the recently released Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system. The company confirmed on its blog that the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra will all be running Android 4.3 in the near future but […]

Apple has been awarded a patent for technology that would allow mobile users to share personal content like photos, books and status updates with people they place on hold. Mashable reported yesterday that the technology would allow users to personalise what information they would share with callers they place on hold. The caller would be […]

A week after the Apple developer site was taken down after an apparently being hacked the website has begun to resume some areas of functionality.

Images of the upcoming LG G2 have been leaked online, revealing the battery power we can expect to see as well as an insight into design of the device. GSM Arena released the images which show the upcoming handset sporting a removal Li-Lon 260mAh battery, proving that LG’s new handset should have plenty of juice. […]

Tile, a startup company that’s solving the problem of lost property with bluetooth and app technology, has raised $2.6 million on the website Selfstarter.

Google have revealed the much-rumoured new version of the Android 4.3 Jellybean operating system at a press event.

Apple’s Q3 quarter financial reports reveal that their market share has fallen in the Greater China market, including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Images of what a tipster has claimed is the upcoming Honami handset have been leaked online via Gadget Helpline, revealing the design of the handset.

A study on consumer habits from the University of Warwick and Glasgow Caledonian University London in the UK has suggested that companies like Apple and Samsung might be making a mistake by trying to set themselves apart from the rest of the market.

EE have confirmed that they will be stocking the HTC One Mini ahead of the handset’s launch in August, according to Mobile News.

The Nokia Lumia 625 will be available through the UK operator EE later this year, along with their Orange and T-Mobile brands, Mobile News has reported.

The Nexus 7 tablet has been shown to be running what is believed to be Android 4.3 in press images leaked by Android Police.

Researchers at UC Berkeley in the USA have created an app that allows Android smartphone users to lend their support to scientific research.

Hopstop, the transit navigation app that was recently acquired by Apple, has disappeared from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Though there has been no official comment form Apple or Microsoft its disappearance is likely related to Apple’s efforts to improve their own mas service after the infamous launch of Apple Maps in 2012 when hundreds of […]

The Japanese Line instant messenger app has achieved 200 million registered users worldwide roughly two years after its original launch.

A Turkish security researcher has claimed responsibility for hacking Apple’s developer site, which has been down since July 18th, stating he did so to uncover weaknesses in their security. Ibrahim Balic told The Guardian that he had exposed the bug and reported them to Apple and while he was aware that it was possible to […]

German security researcher Karsten Nohl has uncovered a security flaw that could allow cybercriminals to remotely access a mobile device, Forbes reported today. The sim card hack could grant criminals control over the victim’s phone to send premium rate messages, collect information on their location, re-direct or record their calls and potentially make fraudulent payments. […]

Google have bought a 6.3% share in Himax Display inc – the company responsible for producing the display on Google Glass.

Twitter founder Biz Stone has claimed that if Facebook were to offer a paid subscription service the social media behemoth could make an additional $12 billion a year.

Facebook announced yesterday that their feature phone app ‘Facebook For Every Phone’ has received 100 million downloads, mostly in emerging Asian markets.

An anonymous tip off has shown a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 3.0 – the upcoming version of the operating system.

A study into the impact of music streaming website Spotify on rates of music piracy has been released, revealing that the service curbs illegal downloads.

A set of alleged specifications for the Moto X have been released online revealing the handset will feature a 4.7″ screen and 16Gb of internal memory.