TECHNOLOGY

Two sneaky Android apps have been detected by Kaspersky, a well-known anti-virus and malware security developer. The apps cloaks as cache cleaners but instead snoop around once connected to PC. Superclean and DroidCleaner are the two applications uncovered by Kaspersky Labs. Both feature clean-up of Android phone or tablet cache files.

The Taiwanese firm HTC is still under warning of continues sales drop. The intense friction between Apple and Samsung in terms of marketing has stumbled HTC while the new players, Huawei and ZTE, compete inside China, which kicked the Taiwanese firm out of the top five in the last quarter of 2012.

More clues came out that there is a Motorola X-Phone project, its existence allegedly confirmed by a LinkedIn job posting searching for a project director, according to tech experts.

The HTC M7 is definitely hitting store shelves by Q1 2013 with no less than HTC chief executive Peter Chou reportedly brandishing the quad-core 1080p smartphone in a recent company gathering.

New Samsung tablets are set to be unveiled at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and among them is the entry-level Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, said to carry a starting price of $US149.

The upcoming Galaxy S4 is rumoured to sport wireless charging capability but those who can hardly wait for the next Samsung flagship smartphone launch and happen to own the million-selling Galaxy S3 can actually enjoy this feature in advance.

Nokia Lumia 710 users in the United States will not be getting further support from carrier T-Mobile, specifically in accessing the Windows Phone 7.8 update, a new report said.

Shibani Bhujle, a New York marketing manager, complained of an incident unexpected by other iPhone users. She said that her one-year-old iPhone 4s spontaneously combusted which burnt her fingers and then oozes a liquid out of the device.

Come March 2013, Apple intends to refresh its 9.7-inch iPad, this time around thinner and lighter from the version we have seen in the last quarter of 2012 thanks to a new touchscreen technology, a new report said.

Sony sent out invites for a New York City event labelled ‘PlayStation Meeting 2013’ which the ailing Japanese consumer electronic firm will stage on Feb. 20. Is this the much-awaited PlayStation 4 unveiling?

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.