It looks like Sony might really have a new smartphone and tablet to unveil later this month at the Mobile World Congress. Less than a month after details of an alleged flagship handset emerged, a fresh leak shows what is purportedly the Xperia Tablet Z’s replacement. According to an image and specs tweeted Monday by …

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Wireless carriers’ salvos in the battle for subscribers have been coming fast and furious lately, and it looks like Verizon Wireless is getting ready to launch a new attack. The US wireless carrier will unveil a “More Everything” plan on Thursday that promises customers more data at no extra cost, doubled bandwidth, 25GB of cloud storage, and unlimited international messaging, …

As the Federal Aviation Administration eases prohibitions against passenger use of portable electronic devices, it’s restricting airline pilots’ personal use of devices in the cockpit. New regulations, announced Tuesday, prohibit pilots from personal use of laptops, cell phones, and other electronic devices while on duty in the cockpit. The rules (PDF), which go into effect in two months, augments the …

Flappy Bird was removed from app stores on Sunday, just hours after its creator warned that the popular game’s demise was nigh. The free smartphone game for iOS and Android took the mobile market by storm, reportedly earning $50,000 in ad revenue each day. Flappy Bird had been download upwards of 50 million times and earned 47,000 reviews on the …

While it appeared that Google had already completed one of its obligations in its proposed sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, that is apparently not the case. A regulatory filing appeared to show that the Web giant bought a 5.94 percent stake in the Chinese electronics maker for $750 million last week, according to Reuters. Google was said to have …

HTC plans to begin selling a wearable device by year’s end, HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang told Bloomberg, confirming long-standing rumors that the troubled handset maker will jump into the wearable computing fray. “Many years ago we started looking at smartwatches and wearables, but we believe that we really have to solve the battery problems and the LCD light problems,” Wang …

AT&T has stopped offering to pay T-Mobile customers up to $450 to switch wireless services, ending a promotion that lasted less than a month. The promotion, which was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 3, was discontinued on January 31, an AT&T representative told CNET Monday, confirming an earlier Wall Street Journal report. The promotion offered a $200 …

Samsung shipped nearly 320 million smartphones in 2013, the largest ever in one year by a single vendor, according to new data released Monday. Overall, handset makers shipped a record 990 million smartphones worldwide in 2013, a 41 percent increase over the previous year, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. However, the 41 percent growth rate was a slight retreat …

Samsung Electronics on Thursday posted its first quarterly decline in operating profits in two years, stung by softening smartphone sales and a one-time employee bonus. The South Korean electronics giant recorded an operating profit of 8.31 trillion won ($7.73 billion) for the quarter ended December 31, its first decline since 2011 and an 18 percent drop from the previous quarter’s …