Nintendo investors want to give Mario a new home on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, where Italy’s most famous plumber can happily battle Bowser and hopefully draw in some much-needed revenue for the ailing Japanese gaming giant. With stocks plummeting to a six-year low and having to drastically slash the prices of its new 3DS console, …

A massive 37 per cent of adults and 60 per cent of teenagers in the UK say that they are ‘highly addicted’ to their smart phone, according to a new study. Ofcom, which commissioned the survey, reckons we’re “a nation addicted to smart phones”. Oh no! That sounds awful. We’re not exactly sure what constitutes being ‘highly addicted’ — if …

Samsung’s Galaxy R may not be a member of the elite smart phone club with its big brother the Galaxy S 2, but that hasn’t stopped us being more than a little excited since its announcement last week. We were hoping to have the phone turning up in our hands round about now, but instead we’re given a quick video …

The latest generation of the stick-insect-thin MacBook Airs are set to arrive this week with beefed-up processors and higher capacity storage. Apple also had a record quarter, with staggering sales figures for the iPhone 4, iPad and iMacs — and the Cupertino company let slip a reference to a September launch for the iPhone 5. Keep your eyes peeled, folks: …

We were very excited to get our paws on the curvy goodness of the Nokia N9 but were as excited about its MeeGo operating system as we are about repainting our fence. Mercifully, a close relative of the N9, called the Sea Ray, has surfaced sporting Windows Phone Mango, and we can take a close look at it in this …

The Netflix film-rental and streaming service is rumoured to be planning a UK launch. Netflix is the number-one film-rental service in the US, offering DVD rentals by post or via streaming online. It’s been doing so well in fact that the company pushed out a massive launch across Latin America earlier this month. Evidently, though, one continent just isn’t enough for Netflix. …

Apple has ramped up the price of apps in its UK App Store by an average of nearly 20 per cent. Thanks, Apple. The changes have been made worldwide to reflect fluctuations in exchange rates between global currencies and the dollar. The minimum price for an app in the UK has gone from a manageable 59p to a wallet-melting 69p. …

ZTE will soon bring its smart phones to the glorious shores of Blighty with its own name plastered on the cases, instead of another company’s. Like many Brits, you may not have heard of ZTE before. That’s because the Chinese firm has hitherto made budget smart phones for other companies, which slap their own branding on the blowers, before selling them on …

Set your faces to ‘excited’, data-transfer fans. Apple patents have emerged that suggest you may soon be able to use physical gestures to transfer files between your iOS devices. Another patent, also unearthed by Patently Apple, deals with 3D gesture recognition on touchscreen gadgets. Rather than share files over the Internet or iTunes, you could soon be able to use pouring …

If you recently bought a 1TB TiVo box and found you missed those spent notes that used to make your wallet fat, then here’s some good news — Virgin Media has decided to give you £50 back. And you didn’t even have to ask for it. Great stuff. Virgin Media has cut the price of its 1TB TiVo box from …