Android 5.0 Jelly Bean mobile operating system may arrive in Spring
Are you digging Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? Well, don't get too comfortable.
Stories by Brennon Slattery
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Smartphones on rampage: next, camcorders
The smartphone is on a device-killing rampage, and camcorders are next on its hit list.
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Facebook Revamps Business Communications
Facebook has started introducing Private Messages for Pages, a new method of connecting consumers with the businesses they follow on the social network -- but in a way that's less social than before.
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RIM plays to its strengths with BlackBerry Mobile Fusion management package
RIM is leveraging its relatively strong reputation for mobile security with the upcoming BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a mobile device management platform with a twist. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will cover BlackBerrys and PlayBook tablets, and it will also support competing mobile OSes, including Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
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Study says Kindle Fire will 'delay' iPad purchases - or does it?
New research suggests the Kindle Fire could chomp into over a quarter of the iPad's sales - an impressive feat, considering Apple's iPad currently has 67 per cent dominance over the tablet market.
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E-readers are big winners in tablet wars
Ladies and gentlemen: we have a winner in the much ballyhooed tablet war - and it's not a strictly a tablet. Without a doubt, the winner is the old-school, E Ink-based e-reader.
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Gmail iOS app: 8 features for the rumoured app
Google is on the verge of launching a native Gmail app for iOS, according to MG Siegler, giving Gmail users used to settling for the limited functionality of Apple's built-in Mail app a reason to celebrate.
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Cool features your iPhone 4 gets after downloading Apple iOS 5
Apple's major overhaul of its iOS operating system arrives today, but amidst the excitement comes a major concern: Will iOS 5 function properly on older model iPhones? Or will there be an added circle of bricked-iPhone hell comparable to what happened in 2010 when the iPhone 3G took on iOS 4?
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Amazon Kindle E-Book lending program: What it needs
Amazon's plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor -- but, despite the novelty of the idea, it's already running into problems, namely from major book publishers.
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Fox's 8-day content delay encourages piracy
Fox recently decided to stop releasing free online streams of its TV shows on Hulu the day after they air -- instead, Fox is delaying free streaming for eight days. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this choice by the network has resulted in an increase in over-100-percent increase in piracy.
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Facebook lets expectant parents share the news
Facebook has added a feature that lets expectant parents add unborn children to the "Friends and Family" section of their profiles by selecting "Expected: Child" on the drop-down list. Typical of anything Facebook does, this feature -- implemented so that parents-to-be wouldn't break Facebook's rules by creating a profile for someone who is very underage -- has stirred controversy for the social network.
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Mozilla's Boot to Gecko: A Mobile OS that could succeed
Mozilla, the makers of the Firefox browser, hopes to revolutionize the modern operating system with Boot to Gecko, a universal-platform OS primary aimed at mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets that could theoretically drive futuristic desktops as well.
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Twitter won't fly as high if it flubs Bing deal
Twitter stands to lose a lot of clout -- and money -- if it flubs its social search deal with Microsoft's Bing like it did with Google.
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5 possible reasons U.S. users are ditching Facebook
Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about six million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest social network. Six million people jumping ship sounds like a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on track to hit 700 million users any day now, it's not such a big deal.
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Microsoft's Xbox TV service may be near
Streaming TV may soon be coming to an Xbox near you.
