Adam Berry, Getty Images Three’s parent company is planning on buying O2, in a deal that could shake the foundations of the UK’s mobile industry. Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, which owns Three, has offered to pay Spanish company Telefonica — which owns O2 — a whopping £10.25 billion in cash for the network, which only …

BlackBerry CEO John Chen says Apple’s services should be made to run on other operating systems. CNET Apple’s iMessage platform shouldn’t just work on Apple products, but should be available on all kinds of devices, the CEO of BlackBerry has said. BlackBerry, which a decade ago was a smartphone pioneer with its email-capable handsets, has suffered a high-profile decline as …

Rest your smartphone on a charging pad, and hey presto — you’ve got power. Luke Westaway/CNET Coffee behemoth Starbucks is caffeinating your smartphone, bringing its wireless charging pads to 10 shops in London. Wireless charging does exactly what it sounds like, and lets you power up your gadgets without the use of irksome cables, or the hassle of hunting for …

EE owes some of its customers money. EE EE customers who were wrongly charged for using data abroad are due a payout, the alliterative mobile operator has said, blaming a “configuration error” for the charges mix-up. Affected customers are those who used data between October 2012 and October 2014 in a country outside the EU. EE wrongly charged these customers …

The deal is designed to improve signal in parts of the country that suffer from a lack of signal. antb/Shutterstock EE, O2, Vodafone and Three will plunge £5 billion into improving the nation’s mobile coverage, having forged a deal with the government to eliminate so-called ‘not-spots’. The tie-up requires the UK’s biggest phone companies to get voice and text coverage …

Sony Don’t like the thought of wearing Google’s own-brand eyewear ? Sony’s latest accessory concept aims to make smart glasses out of your existing spectacles. The attachable system, which Sony dubs the Single-Lens Display Module, looks a little chunky, but packs some intriguing tech. Attaching to eyewear, the compartment on the wearer’s right features a control board including a processor …

Blizzard Lok’tar ogar! The long wait for Hearthstone on Android has finally come to an end, as Blizzard’s addictive card-duelling game lands on Google’s operating system. Hearthstone, which is a virtual trading card game based on characters and lore from Blizzard’s Warcraft franchise, sees players battling head-to-head in online matches, deploying powerful minions and spells in a bid to deplete …

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Bop.fm streams music from a variety of other platforms. Screenshot by Luke Westaway/CNET Nascent music service Bop.fm has landed on iOS, giving owners of Apple’s glossy technology a chance to test out the platform-agnostic streaming tool. Bop.fm aims to capitalise on the fact that many artists or particular songs are only available on certain services — see Taylor Swift’s recent …