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Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 rumor mill is taking a similar turn to that of the Galaxy Nexus that was released last year.

ASUS has made an over the air update for Ice Cream Sandwich ready for the Eee Pad Transformer Feb. 24, but 3G-enabled models will have to wait. The update is for the Wi-Fi models, and Transformer owners in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the UK all should have access to the new Google Android system. Asus now has two tablets running the new system, and the Motorola Xoom is still the only other tablet out there running the 4.0 update. As to why Asus is the lucky company to be getting the updates so ...

Sprint is selling the normally $100 priced Motorola Photon 4G for $50 on its Web site, the discounted iPhone 3GS is only one dollar from AT&T, and T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 710 is just $40 (online price). If your smartphone shopping on a budget, or if you need to add a new line to your current contract, these might be the best choices for you. They are all quite different, besides being offered on different carriers. But for the price, they are tough to beat, especially the Photon 4G because it ...

Verizon dropped the price of the HTC Rezound to $99 on contract recently, and it's now the same price as the iPhone 4. The best Verizon smartphone deal can be found here, but it depends on what you're looking for in a new phone. Even though both of these devices cost much less than Verizon's flagship class of $300 phones, they are great choices with excellent features. In fact, the Rezound only debuted at the end of 2011, and it was originally $300.

The long awaited BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally out. RIM released PlayBook last year and PlayBook OS 2.0 is the first software update for the tablet, coming out after almost one year later. The original plans of RIM were to release PlayBook OS 2.0 in December 2011. RIM is already two months behind on the original schedule.

Earlier in February, the media reported that the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy thousands of Apple iPad tablets to replace the conventional flight bags carried by pilots. Nobody knows the exact number of iPads, the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy. Some say that the figure is 3,000. But to replace the flight bag of all the pilots in U.S. Air Force, 18,000 is still a small figure. That means a big business for Apple.

A purported iPad 3 display had been handed over to iFixit for a second and even closer examination. A microscopic test helped to find out that the display was indeed a higher pixel density panel with 2048x1536 resolution.

Amazon's Kindle Fire or RIM's Blackberry Playbook? Undoubtedly both the tablets are well-designed with lot of apps. They are 7-inch in size and have the multi-touch display. Both have dual core processors. And users of both tablets can access loads of content too.

Apple Inc. acquired San Francisco-based Chomp Inc., which helps users sort through the widening array of software applications for mobile devices.

At a time when speculation about iPad 3 is gaining momentum before its predicted launch in the first week of March, mobile chipset maker Qualcomm, by releasing its fifth generation Gobi platform, has fueled anticipation that Apple will unquestionably introduce its next generation tablet with 4G LTE support.

Dropbox unveiled on Thursday a new photo uploading feature for Android smartphones, potentially sharpening its competition with Google, Apple, and a host of other companies battling to rule the burgeoning market for online storage solutions.

Samsung Rugby Smart, which was unveiled Thursday by AT&T Wireless, with its rugged look and water-proof, shock-proof and dust-proof features, will add some serious dash of toughness in the Android smartphone lineup in the coming days.

Asus may be ready to take over the Android tablet world in 2012, and they'll have their chance starting Feb. 27 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That's when they could debut the Transformer Prime TF300T, a follow-up to the original Transformer tablet.

The heavy price tag attached to Apple’s iPhone series may actually save money in the long run. A new study shows that the prices for the top paid-for apps in the Android market are “dramatically” higher than those in Apple’s store.

While Apple is not expected to unveil the iPhone 5 anytime soon, but that doesn't mean fans can't dream about what the next-generation iPhone could possibly look like. Fanning the flame that is iPhone hype, the imaginative minds at Ciccarese Design, led by Federico Ciccarese, have released a new mock-up of a teardrop-shaped iPhone 5, which is really quite beautiful.

Google's plan to come up with a pair of augmented reality glasses, which could swarm data directly to the eyes of its user in real time, has taken the tech world by storm.

OnLive, a company known for streaming games, has released a new iPad app that can run the Windows OS at lightning-fast speeds, something the purportedly 4G LTE-enabled iPad 3 could turn into an unstoppable combination. The OnLive Desktop app uses cloud based technology to shrink down the Windows environment into a usable size for the iPad (Android, Macs and PCs too, eventually).

Mobile chipset maker Qualcomm has unveiled its fifth generation Gobi platform based on its Gobi 4G LTE wireless baseband modems - MDM9615 and MDM9215 - that will support LTE, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA and TDD networks, triggering speculations that iPad 3 (and even iPhone 5) will debut with 4G LTE option.

OnLive, which was in the news recently for bringing Microsoft Windows to iPad, has now succeeded in delighting iPad users once again – this time by introducing OnLive Desktop Plus, which offers full-blown Windows applications and an ultra-fast Web browser with full Adobe Flash support.

Qualcomm has released its fifth generation Gobi platform for mobile baseband, promising 4G LTE option in the forthcoming iPad 3 and iPhone 5.