Texting money from your mobile to friends and businesses is just over a year away. With just a phone number, customers of banks including Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds could send money from their phones by spring of 2014. The Payments Council — the body in charge of greasing the wheels of payments — says by …

You’ve just sat down to watch Les Misérables and Russell Crowe’s just opened his mouth to bark, when the air is filled with the sound of… Marimba? As you scramble to switch your phone to silent, you can look forward to Microsoft’s vision of a future in which phones silence themselves when they realise they’re in a cinema. Microsoft has …

BlackBerry 10 is just two weeks away — and it’s time for the best look yet at the X10 and Z10, the next generation of BlackBerry phones. BlackBerry-builder Research in Motion is launching two new phones, the X10 and Z10, to show off the new software. Leaked shots show how BlackBerry 10 works with both keyboard and touchscreen. The first …

Jelly Bean is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S2 in February. But when it’s coming to this country — and to your phone — is anybody’s guess. Samsung told CNET that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be made available to owners of the S2 at the beginning of February — in Singapore. The rest of the world? Cross your fingers. At …

Struggling to lay your mitts on a Google Nexus 4? Fortunately another network has added the Nexus 4 to its line-up: Virgin Media. Virgin is offering a range of two-year contracts, many of which offer the phone for free. The Nexus 4 is so cheap to buy on its own we suggest you think twice about getting it on a …

Samsung has dropped a great big clanging hint at what we can expect from the Samsung Galaxy S4 — namely a 5-inch high-definition screen. Alongside its futuristic prototypes at CES, the annual technology trade show in Las Vegas, Samsung highlighted the progression of its screen technology from 2010 to the first quarter of 2013 — which is when a certain unnamed phone arrives. …

A sequel to the Google Nexus 4 could be on the cards already, with rumours even suggesting that factories producing the current Nexus have ground to a halt. International Business Times reports that LG, which builds the Nexus 4 as a vessel for Google’s Android software, has halted production on the bargainous phone. LG has dropped hints that the Nexus 4 …

In the past, if you wanted to take your landline on holiday you’d need to unplug it from the wall and find space in your suitcase. But now with BT SmartTalk there’s an app for that, letting you make calls at your landline rate from your mobile when you’re out and about, or even out of the country. SmartTalk is …

If you thought jailbreaking was just for the iPhone 5 and iPad, think again: Windows and the Microsoft Surface have been busted out of jail. The crafty folk at XDA Developers have come up with the jailbreak, handily packaged into a batch file that you run each time you turn the tablet on, so you can install apps that haven’t …

A new iPad and iPad mini could be with us as soon as March, according to an industry expert. As the Google Nexus 7 takes a bite out of the tablet market, could Apple rush out new iPads? Analyst Brian White heard some choice gossip at CES and reckons the new iPads, one big and one little, could arrive in …