TECHNOLOGY

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 starts rolling out by the second week of April 2013, the projection based on two new reports coming from the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Nokia is reportedly testing a new Lumia smartphone, triggering fresh speculations that the Finnish firm is pulling off a surprise following its announcement of a Feb 25 news briefing at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

A new social photo-taking game app launched by CollegeHumor has been launched for iPhone and it's called Bout. The photo-taking app challenges players to compete with each other by submitting images that answer funny prompts.

Escaping from the temple ruins and dungeons while dodging traps beats out the powers of super-powered birds. Imangi Studios made history with Temple Runs2 as it became the fastest growing mobile game, displacing Rovio's pet app. Temple Run 2 soared with 50 million downloads in just 13 days from its release.

The debut of Blackberry 10 and its carrier unit Blackberry Z10 delivered new features, new improvements, and overall changes from its previous generation. Blackberry specialises in maximum security and is mainly used for corporate functions due to its great email features, business tools, and scheduling. iPhone 5 delivers not only the latest technology when it comes to hardware but also fluid and smooth performance for its user.

The BlackBerry Z10 is officially out and all eyes are focused on what fresh offerings will the new handset bring to the table after successive quarters of struggles and disappointments.

Two HTC events will be simultaneously staged in London and New York on Feb 19, that much the Droid DNA maker has confirmed. Almost immediately, the buzz went wild that finally the HTC M7 will arrive following months of frenzied speculation.

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will be a no-show at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, a new report said, but the South Korean will remain an active participant in the annual tech event, showing off other gadget products.

The Samsung Galaxy onslaught continues and the latest to be introduced by the tech giant is the quad-core Galaxy Pop, reportedly for exclusive appreciation of South Korean fans that needs to pay roughly $650 to own the smartphone.

In 2012, a record of 700 million units has been shipped across the globe with Samsung and Apple owning half of the market, according to the new research of Strategy Analytics.

Research in Motion (RIM) indeed polished their operating system and the result is that Blackberry 10 offers a fresh new look for the audience. The anticipation by many of the Blackberry comeback has been paid well with the overhauling and reinvention of the mobile operating system reflecting the effort, blood, tears and sweat of its contributors.

Symbian OS was the dominant smartphone computing platform until 2010 when Android OS conquered its territory. It was once under the full control of Nokia and many of their smartphone units run the OS.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro, powered by the full Windows 8 version, is coming out with an advertised storage capacity of 128GB and 64GB. But a new report has indicated that only a fraction of that memory will be available for users to enjoy.

Needless to say, so much anticipation is building up on the superpower smartphone Samsung Galaxy S4 and as we near its reported April 2013 launch tech experts are listing the specs they believe would make millions of jaws drop in awe.

Finally Nexus 4 is back on Google Play store and blog reports have indicated that buyers in the United States, Canada and Germany can start placing orders. They only need to wait maximum of 14 days for the smartphone to arrive.

Apple adds another attraction to its expanding tablet menu, this time by generously increasing the built-in storage capacity of the tech giant’s latest iPad model. No, this is not the highly speculated iPad 5 but analysts offered we can very well call it as the iPad Pro.

The social networking site Twitter said that worldwide data requests from government offices have risen by almost 20 per cent. In the July to December period, information requested government offices went up from 849 to 1,009.

Research in Motion (RIM) will finally launch Blackberry 10 and this is one of the most expected event in technology of the once dominant OS in the United States. Currently, Blackberry owns only 1.1 percent of total market share in mobile devices which is now populated by Google's Android.

Galaxy Note 2 owners on Verizon will be able to enjoy anew the excitement of flashing custom ROMs on the popular Samsung phablet, thanks to the bootloader unlock modification from XDA Developers.

What is the bestselling smartphone brand in the United Kingdom? For UK retailers, Samsung’s Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 easily comes to mind as a new report showed that British phone sellers are more inclined to introduce the handsets to consumers over Apple’s iPhone 5.

Samsung is beefing up its tablet arsenal for 2013 with reports emerging that the South Korean tech titan is all set to refresh the Galaxy Tab 2 lines via the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.

Apple’s iOS 6.1 is out beta stage following updates from the tech giant that shoved its mobile platform into full version a few days after developers were first given a taste of software fixes deployed with the patch.

Twitter launched its first video service client to iPhone and iPod touch users that currently have issues about inappropriate content. The app is called Vine which can be used to search pornographic video clips. Vine allows a user to shoot and upload high quality videos with a run time of 60 seconds, which also loops.

Nexus 4 is making its way to different markets around the world, courtesy of local Google partners. Its latest destination appears to be in the United States via giant retailer Best Buy, which plans to sell the LG-manufactured very soon, reports said.

The Java 7 Update 10 on December 2012 was exposed to vulnerabilities against hackers and cyber criminals. The new update on Jan 13, 2013 has two new flaws which also makes it susceptible to digital attacks.

There are different theories why Apple continues to weaken while Samsung zooms past its main rival but once business partners. Some experts explained it to Samsung's engineering marvel and marketing expertise.

Nokia is reportedly planning two flagship smartphone debuts for 2013. The first one was codenamed Catwalk, as reported earlier, while second thrust will be known as Nokia Laser, set to be exclusively distributed by Verizon later this year.

Ahead of its scheduled previewing at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, pictures of the supposed Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 were leaked out.

Samsung introduced in 2012 the feature called Smart Stay technology. The feature keeps the screen on by detecting via front-facing camera to determine if the user is looking at the screen. This feature is included to the Galaxy S3 devices, and it is not based on whether the user's eyes are closed or not.