Erik Pineda

Google’s Nexus 4 remains out of reach but fans of the popular but hard to get smartphone have devised ways to make the waiting a bit easier. If you are one of the many wanting to own the LG-manufactured handset, head out to Google Play store now.

A U.S. court upheld last week a dentist’s decision to fire his long-time assistant on grounds that the latter’s attractive appearance was threatening the employer’s marriage.

Android lovers would agree: Firmware updates from handset manufacturers remain its weakest link but the best in this woeful lot, that is to provide the most current Android patch cycle, is HTC.

Google is reportedly ramping up its hardware business by coming up with another signature smartphone on 2013, which reports said is tentatively dubbed ‘X Phone’ and now under development by Motorola.

Samsung is reportedly issuing replacements for faulty units of the bestselling Galaxy S3 following numerous complaints that the bestselling smartphone was experiencing ‘dying out’ episodes some months after owners’ initial use.

Google set the stage via the Nexus 7, prompting Acer to jump into the cheap tablet segment with the new Iconia B1 slate, which reports said will carry a sticker price of around $US100 and will hit store shelves within Q1 2013.

Google and Asus are reportedly collaborating anew to deliver another version of the hit quad-core tablet Nexus 7, this time to be priced at a starting point of $US99 and set for unveiling in the initial months of 2013.

Australian scientists sounded alarm on the possibility that catastrophic tsunami waves could swamp Queensland coastlines in the event of a very powerful earthquake hitting the region.

Dropping the budget surplus vow was “betrayal of public trust,” as insisted by the Coalition but Treasurer Wayne Swan maintained that embracing economic reality is the best way to handle the domestic setting.

Apple’s iOS 6 experienced significant surge in adoption in the past weeks not only on fresh sales numbers chalked up by the iPhone 5 but also on OS upgrades downloaded by iPhone 4S owners.

If you are a Nexus 10 owner or considering a purchase of this Samsung-manufactured big-sized tablet for Google, take pleasure in knowing that charging this Android device would be more convenient over the next few weeks or even days.

A walking catfish, a devilish-looking bat, a singing frog, a ruby-eyed pit viper and a two-legged lizard are among the newly-discovered species in the Greater Mekong region that the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has listed on its new report titled Extra Terrestrial.

CM10, according to Android Authority, will work smoothly on these following Tab 8.9 variants: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wi-Fi + 3G variant (GT-P7300) and Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wi-Fi-only variant (GT-P7310).

Australia is actually witnessing a fierce battle being waged by two equally unpopular political leaders, one analyst said, essentially making the Julia Gillard-Tony Abbott tussle a contest of the best among the worst.

Been toying with your Galaxy S3 for quite some time? Chances are it has had its fair amount of ‘hard work’ since you first unboxed this flagship smartphone from Samsung. All the intensive surfing and game playing on any device, according to Android experts, fill up its cache.

Though nothing official has yet to come out from HTC, speculations on its new flagship smartphone continue to swirl wildly, the latest of which is the detailed specs of the rumoured handset known for now as HTC M7.

Good news for Sony smartphone owners. The Japanese firm confirmed in a blog post dated Dec 17 that specific Xperia phone models will soon chew in the JellyBean update in the form of a phased deployment that will start on February 2013.

Few days into Christmas, Google remains grappling on how to solve its Nexus delivery problems and the best it can offer this week is an apology and admission that its supply chain for the hit devices is “erratic.”

The last firmware update for the Nokia Lumia 800 and related models is reportedly rolling out in Europe, with Dutch owners of the handset getting a taste of the Windows Phone 7 refresh, blog reports said.

Nokia is set to roll out software updates for the Lumia 920 this December, which mainly are configured to fix issues on the Windows-phone handset’s camera technology.

Tourism business has become extraordinary brisk in a rather obscure Turkish town, fuelled largely by the frenzied talks of the end of days, renewed recently on the account of the Mayan Calendar cycle.

HTC’s Droid DNA now comes in the familiar red colour of its U.S. carrier – red. However, any plans to acquire this powerful handset in the screaming tone could prove circuitous for the average consumers.

The world is headed for a dead-end on Dec 21 2012, according to firm believers of the Mayan Apocalypse prediction, bur for some in the United States, Earth will not be engulfed by destructive rains of fireball or inundated by gigantic tsunami flood.

The upcoming Galaxy S4 handset from Samsung will likely be anything but unbreakable, the screen that is, reports said, dousing speculations that the flagship Android smartphone will break new paths in terms of solid build mobile devices.

More modification options for the Nexus 4 were recently unleashed by the generous people over at XDA Developers for maximum enjoyment of the Google-LG smartphone this holiday season.

Asus issued a companion dock for the Google signature tablet Nexus 7, which blog reports said will first hit the Japanese market within December, with the likelihood of a global rollout to follow shortly.

U.S. space agency NASA said this week that the annual Geminid meteor shower is set to reach its peak between Dec.13 and 14, specifically during pre-dawn hours though some astronomers have indicated that specks of the spectacle could remain visible up to Dec 16.

Google’s Nexus 4, it turns out, has a hidden LTE chip and it can be easily activated with bits of digging. Users of this Android smartphone in selected U.S. and Canadian locations are bound to enjoy super-fast wireless broadband connection without mustering any hacking skills.

Android currently reigns supreme in the global smartphone arena, underscoring the fact that the Google platform has been generating satisfaction among the hundreds of millions subscribed to the system since its inception.