Erik Pineda

HTC’s Droid DNA is one powerful and impressive smartphone and thanks to Amazon, this handset earned higher consumer points with recent price cuts from its original U.S. retail point of $US199.99 to $US149.99, which comes with a Verizon contract.

CyanogenMod 10.1 for Google’s big tablet Nexus 10 is now ready for download at get.cm, providing Android lovers the chance to take the plunge on the extended world beyond the realms of JellyBean.

Centuries-old The Times of London, owned and published by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is partnering with Google via a deal that will see the English publication’s digital version on Nexus 7.

South Korea’s Samsung has invaded the United Kingdom by placing five Galaxy handsets in the November list of uSwitch Tech’s 10 most popular smartphones, with the million-selling Galaxy S3 heading the pack.

Nokia has been getting lots of attention lately, thanks much to the Windows-powered Lumia 920, and is likely to further broaden it audience reach soon via a looming deal with China Mobile Ltd, reports said.

Malaysia is reportedly mulling a repeal of its death penalty laws, and if it pushes through, an Aussie man could be saved from the gallows soon, reports said.

Android lovers wanting to enjoy the latest features and more of the Google mobile platform need not to wait for say Samsung or telcos to deliver the updates, which come excruciatingly slow.

Despite stubborn claims by Microsoft that its Windows 8 launch is going along just fine, analysts have expressed doubts on the manner that the revamped operating system has been unfolding so far.

It’s official, many more lusting after the Nexus 4 will never get their hands on the Google handset this December, which the internet giant said is sold out for the holidays and will not ship until January, at the earliest, next year.

Supply of Nokia’s Lumia 920 was getting scarce in the past few weeks due mainly to solid demands and apparently the Finnish mobile phone maker was caught off guard by the overwhelming reception generated by its new flagship smartphone.

Like every politician, Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears vulnerable to public attacks as the latest Galaxy-News Ltd survey showed that 20 per cent of Australian voters regarded her handling of the AWU slush fund scandal as not transparent enough.

The new super-thin 21.5-inch iMac is quite a view and getting inside the new Apple desktop is most definitely an engineering marvel, as proved by the latest discovery of teardown specialist iFixit.

Considering a new television to buy for the holidays? Experts said the best ally you can get is waiting for the most suitable deal for your budget to materialise and determine what you need and what you don’t.

Considering a television buy for the holidays? Experts said the best ally you can get is waiting for the most suitable deal for your budget to materialise and determine what you need and what you don’t.

It may be oversized but Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 is a big-seller and in just 60 days five million global buyers grabbed this powerful and large-screen smartphone that aims to convince consumers they’re getting more than what they paid for.

What’s so sexy about the new Lumia 920? Nokia chief designer Marko Ahtisaari points to the Windows smartphone’s natural ability to fuse what is both physical and digital, creating an advance device that remains in touch with being ‘human and organic’.

By all indications, the Lumia 920 is fast-becoming a hero phone for Nokia, which analysts said represents a much-needed push for a struggling firm that has seen lacklustre product debuts and market battering in the past few years.

The dirty tales from Chongqing appear far from over. The bustling Chinese city hit international headlines this year when its chief, Bo Xilai, was unceremoniously sacked by his peers in the Chinese Politburo for allegedly engaging in corrupt and immoral activities.

Giant cigarette producer British American Tobacco got a stern reproach from the Health Ministry for issuing products that were not fully compliant with Australia’s strict plain packaging laws, which started gradual implementation in October 2012.

The dirty tales from Chongqing appear far from over. The bustling Chinese city hit international headlines this year when its chief, Bo Xilai, was unceremoniously sacked by his peers in the Chinese Politburo for allegedly engaging in corrupt and immoral activities.

There is a new tablet on the block. Not that new actually as Sony launched the Xperia Tablet S September this year only to withdraw it from the market a month after due to build defects.

The Coalition has ramped up its calls for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to resign following the release of a new document that showed she actively argued for the incorporation of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) Workplace Reform Association.

Australian tech retailer Dick Smith is joining the anticipated holiday push of Apple’s iPhone 5 via its exclusive unlocked offering for the popular handset, which starts selling Nov 28 at $788.

Labor has called on deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop to step down or be sacked, accusing her of lying on the circumstances of her communications with self-confessed fraudster Ralph Blewitt.

Without providing specifics, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has identified the cause of the random reboots reportedly plaguing the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC Windows Phone 8X and a patch to repair the problem is set for a December deployment.

Amidst the ongoing management upheaval at Apple, the tech giant took some breather on Tuesday as new research data showed that the iPhone has snatched back the title as the bestselling smartphone, at least in the United States.

Windows 8 is just about to replicate the achievements of its immediate predecessor as Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday that around 40 million licenses of the new operating system have been sold a month after it was rolled out.

Will Nintendo’s Wii U fuel the recovery of the limping game console business? While the Japanese game maker would not want to claim that distinction, it reported on Monday that the new product is off to a respectable start – selling 400,000 units in a week’s time.

Asha is the reason Nokia remains profitable and recent additions to the series somewhat weaved a clear picture why the handsets, mostly powered by Nokia’s antiquated S40 Symbian platform, were snapped up by close to seven million global consumers as of September 2012.