RIM offers Blackberry 10 prototypes to developers
Mobile phone maker Research in Motion has kicked off its annual conference by handing out thousands of prototypes for its next line of smartphones. The devices – dubbed Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha – also offer a sneak preview of RIM’s new operating system. Both the OS and the new range of handsets are seen as hugely important as RIM struggles More...
iPad ’4G’ claims face scrutiny from UK regulator
The Advertising Standards Authority has widened its inquiry into the advertising of the Apple iPad. The BBC understands the regulator is not satisfied that Apple has complied with an agreement to amend claims about More...
Campaign aims to speed up 4G mobile roll-out in UK
Mobile network Everything Everywhere has taken fresh steps to lobby for 4G data services in the UK. The firm is urging business leaders and consumer champions to join 4GBritain – a campaign calling on the More...
Facebook: Parents ‘help children break age limits’
Parents are helping their children to set up under-age profiles on social networking site Facebook, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has said. This meant that children were getting involved in social media More...
Samsung overtakes Nokia in mobile phone shipments
Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the first More...
Hubbub over content rights greets Google Drive
Google CEO Larry Page recently wrote that he hopes to show the company is “deserving of great love.” But the Internet search leader may need to win more trust, based on the suspicions swirling around More...
Mobile phones: ‘Still no evidence of harm to health’
There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA). Scientists looked at hundreds of studies of mobile exposure and found no More...
Google backs network of former terrorists
Google has backed a project to link up former terrorists and former violent radicals online, in an effort to combat extremism worldwide. It is planned that more than a thousand reformed Islamic, far-right, far-left More...
Résultats 2e trimestre: Apple double ses bénéfices sur un an
Apple a annoncé mardi des résultats nettement supérieurs aux attentes, à la faveur d’une demande soutenue pour ses iPhone et ses iPad, notamment en Chine, des chiffres qui font progresser l’action More...
Former Yahoo boss and husband agree $71 million divorce
A titanic five-year divorce battle between Susan Decker, the former president of internet giant Yahoo, and her investment banker husband has been settled in an agreement compared to the “The Treaty of Versailles.” The More...