Erik Pineda

Samsung recently disclosed that the Galaxy S series handsets clocked more than 100 million in total unit sales, with the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy S3 each registering over 40 million of shifted units.

U.S. female soldiers could see combat deployment soon following reports that Pentagon has decided to lift the ban of sending women to active fighting zones, with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta set to announce details of the new policy on Thursday.

LG has confirmed the upcoming release of the 5-inch Optimus G Pro, which reports said is geared for an initial distribution to Japan shortly after it’s unveiling at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in February.

It took Sony some serious beatings from its South Korean rivals before it realised that the pack of current tech leaders is way, way up, tech analysts observed. But with the upcoming market debut of the Xperia Z, the once dominant Japanese firm is sending a clear notice: The giant has awakened.

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 appears headed for a mid-April 2013 debut but before the smartphone makes its way to public view it manufacturer would want to whip out a few more garnishing – pack the gadget with as much screen pixels as possible.

Seemingly unmindful of chronic stock outs since its debut last year, Google’s Nexus 4 is hitting two major retailers in Australia and Canada next week, the development likely in line with LG’s earlier pronouncement that global shipment of the smartphone will normalise beginning in February.

The full glory of Windows 8 on tablet is on course for a forceful entry as Microsoft indicated that the Surface Pro is all ready for global rollout, initially to be unleashed in North America on Feb. 9 en route to its landing on other key markets.

The popular CyanogenMod 10.1 gained a step higher and is said to be more stable and more reliable than the previous versions. Officially, the ROM is now called CyanogenMod 10.1 Milestone 1 and is ready for flashing on selected Samsung and Nexus devices.

It promises to be a busy 2013 for Samsung as the company reportedly lined up strings of gadget releases in the year’s first half alone, apparently to build up more attention on the Galaxy brand before the rumoured Galaxy S4 crashes into the scene.

Samsung is said to be planning a Q2 2013 release of its latest high-end smartphone, which blog reports suggest will largely assume most of its rumoured specs save for the brand name Galaxy S4.

We’ve heard of the possibility that Apple will bend a bit to market dictates as part of its 2013 roadmap and send out to store shelves two smartphones by second half of the year – the iPhone 5S for its traditional market base and the iPhone Mini for mass market release.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard personally picked Olympic gold medal winner Nova Peris as Labor’s top Senate candidate for the Northern Territory, effectively sidestepping the ruling party’s internal section process.

Nokia is gradually delivering the so-called Portico updates for international owners of the surprise-hit Lumia 920 some weeks after the same patch were made accessible to U.S.-based users of the Windows Phone 8 handset.

Some countries where the iPhone 5 is being released are coming up with likely contenders to challenge Apple’s smartphone supremacy. In India, the Micromax Canvas HD is set for market launch on February and is touted as the first quad-core handset from the leading Indian phone maker.

Samsung has confirmed that it will unleash a new challenger to test the mettle of the popular tablets out there. It will be called the Galaxy Note 8.0, which easily can be lumped with the mini tablet class.

Samsung has once again spiced up its Galaxy S3 Mini serving, this time including near-field capability (NFC) to the small Galaxy S3 sibling, the tech giant said in a press release issued this week.

Among the Nexus line of gadgets that Google unveiled last year, it is the Nexus 10, made by Samsung, that gets the least attention. The tech giant aims to change that by boosting the large tablet’s specs for its second coming later this year, a new report said.

Will HTC really unbox the M7 anytime soon? Another image leak, purportedly “an accurate depiction of the HTC M7,” just came out, again driving up speculations that the One X/Droid DNA replacement is set for a Q1 2013 market debut.

Flurry of leaks is driving deserved attention to the upcoming BlackBerry 10 handsets, the initial pack of which Research in Motion (RIM) intends to unveil on January 30.

Samsung has nudged most of its tablet stable into the JellyBean 4.1 fold, announcing last week that the Galaxy Note 10.1 and the all the Galaxy Tab 2 variants will be updated to the not-so-latest Android flavour.

Nokia is opening up new market fronts for the Lumia 620, hoping to stumble on fresh revenue sources by bringing the Lumia-flavoured Windows Phone 8 handsets to wider audience reach.

The fourth Galaxy Note is on the way. It will be known as Galaxy Note 8.0 and Samsung intends to debut the new small tablet via the Mobile World Congress scheduled for Barcelona staging in late February.

Apple’s iPhone 5S, according to KGI Securities, will come out by Q3 2013 sporting the A7 28 nanometre chip architecture. While the forecast is not pointing to a sure-fire iPhone release, it should be interesting to pit the likely specs of the refreshed iPhone against Google’s flagship smartphone, the Nexus 4.

South Korea’s LG appears all prepped for a major 2013 push as rumours intensified that the Nexus 4 manufacturers is gearing up for a salvo of Nexus gadget releases, which could include a 5-inch serving of the Google smartphone plus a Nexus 7.7 tablet.

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is getting the Android JellyBean 4.2 update but the patch needs to be downloaded manually and at the moment intended only for Sprint subscribers.

A U.S. software developer lost his high-paying job when his employer inadvertently discovered that works turned in by the ‘prized employee’ for a considerable amount of time were all made in China.

Apple is heavily inclined for a third quarter refresh of the iPhone 5 by Q3 2013, by that time to be known as iPhone 5S, centred on A7 chips and retaining the 4-inch screen size, a new report said.

The upcoming HTC M7 closely resembles Apple’s iPhone 5, based on the Android smartphone’s leaked image render published on Wednesday by Unwired View.

Nexus 7 was recently picked up for U.S. distribution by AT&T and T-Mobile, allowing American buyers of the unlocked Google-Asus tablet to connect via the two telcos’ HSPA+ network.