It isn’t easy being green. With less than a week before Nokia’s Android phone is revealed, the emerald-hued Nokia X has surfaced in another leaked photo. Codenamed the Nokia X or Nokia Normandy, the new phone is expected to be Nokia’s first Android blower. Twitter tipster @evleaks shows off the new snap, which appears to …

BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD are banding together into one smart TV alliance to rule them all: Freeview Connect. Although it’s not clear what form it’ll take, the result could cut YouView out of the loop. The Guardian reports that BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have formed a new alliance to get their catch-up TV services on any and …

Multi-award winning, star-packed political thriller House of Cards is back on Netflix now, so you can cast your vote once again for the deliciously dark machinations of Kevin Spacey’s mandarin-with-the-plan Frank Underwood. Season 2 of the White House backstab-’em-up is available to stream in its entirety for Netflix subscribers worldwide. There are 13 episodes, just in case you needed an …

Nokia has gone green. The Finnish company today changed the colour of its Facebook and Twitter pages to an emerald hue, the signature colour of Google’s Android software — which could mean the green light for the hotly-rumoured Nokia Android phone. Codenamed the Nokia X or Nokia Normandy, the as-yet-unconfirmed phone will be Nokia’s first Android device, and is reported …

The Nokia Lumia 1320 lands on 24 February, and you can get it for free for as little as £21 per month. Revealing the release date for the Windows Phone 6-incher, Nokia bandies around words like “affordable” and “competitive”, and retailers are offering it gratis on a range of contracts.  The 1320 is Nokia’s newest phablet, a 4G phone with an …

Looks like we won’t be feathering our nests thanks to Flappy Bird: fans of the maddeningly addictive mobile game looking to cash in on its disappearance from app stores have had their wings clipped by eBay. “After reviewing your eBay account, it appears that you have not followed eBay’s guidelines to list a device that can hold media or software,” …

Talk is cheap, or in the case of BBM, it’s free. The BlackBerry Messenger app for Apple, Android and BlackBerry phones is updating today to add free voice chat. The update adds BBM Voice, so you can make free phone calls over Wi-Fi or your data connection to your BBM contacts using BlackBerry, Android and iOS anywhere in the world. …

The Xbox One controller is “overly twitchy”, according to one of the creators of forthcoming game Titanfall, but Microsoft has acted fast to fix it with a software update. “It wasn’t really where we felt it should be,” says the game’s design lead Justin Hendry, speaking to The Verge. “It was a little overly twitchy with the current controls. Now it’s …

You know what we need? More Samsung tablets — said no-one, ever. Except, apparently, Mr or Mrs Tablet at Samsung, who has reportedly approved the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. The Tab 4 will make its debut alongside the hotly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S5 in just over a week, according to ZDNet. And there’ll be a new, redesigned Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch …

Google’s boss of buying and selling companies insists that the Motorola deal was a “success”, despite taking a bath on the sale price. Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion late last month, having bought the phone manufacturer just two years ago for more than four times that amount. But Don Harrison, Google’s head of mergers and acquisitions, …