One of the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook‘s coolest features is it can pair with a BlackBerry smart phone for 3G connectivity, but what about linking Apple’s iPad with one of RIM’s handsets? That’s the aim of a new app called Liberty from a company called Bayalink, which has made it available in beta. The company describes …

BlackBerry PlayBook still doesn’t have a confirmed release date or price here in the UK, but new video footage of RIM’s tablet in action has whetted our appetites for the device. It shows the PlayBook’s multi-tasking in action, along with several games. The video was shot by VentureBeat at last week’s Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, as RIM’s Tyler …

Delete Infinity Blade from your iPad right now. Chuck Real Racing into a ‘Never Used’ folder. Gaze in disgust at the icon for Flipboard. As long as you’re a parent to pre-schoolers, anyway. The only app that’ll be getting any usage on your iPad today is In The Night Garden. That’s right: the BBC has brought its popular CBeebies show …

Why would Nokia give up on its own Symbian and MeeGo software to throw its lot in with Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS? Try $1bn in cash. That’s reportedly what convinced Nokia to shun Android in favour of Steve Ballmer’s enthusiastically sweaty embrace. This is according to Businessweek, which cites “two people with knowledge of the terms” of the deal between …

Three made waves with its One Plan unlimited data tariff at a time when its rivals were reining in their plans for data-hungry smart-phone owners. Now there’s an equivalent for its pay as you go customers, starting at £15 a month. The new plan is called All in One, and is available in two flavours. All in One 15 costs …

Spy shots of an unidentified Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 handset have been published on a Chinese forum, although it’s unclear if the phone is in development now, or a canned project from last year. The images were published on the Lizhecome site on Friday, with no explanatory information other than the subject ‘What’s this?’. They show a Sony Ericsson …

Were Apple’s rivals watching closely as it unveiled the iPad 2 last week? You bet they were. Samsung has become one of the first to publicly say its own tablet strategy may be getting a tweak as a direct result of Apple’s second-generation slate. Korean news agency Yonhap has an interview with Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile …

Samsung’s new Galaxy Pro smart phone is the latest Android handset looking for a bite of the BlackBerry market, with a Qwerty keyboard and a 2.8-inch touchscreen. Announced this weekend, it’s already been confirmed by Three as coming to that operator’s network here in the UK. The phone was unveiled at Samsung’s own SEA Forum event in Singapore, having been …

Google has moved fast to protect Android users from dozens of malware apps discovered on its Android Market store last week. The apps, which used exploits to access the personal data of anyone who installed them, have been removed from the store, and are being remotely uninstalled from people’s handsets. Google outlined its actions in a blog post on Saturday, …

Layar is one of the most high-profile augmented reality apps, but until now, it’s only been available on iPhone and Android. Now another smart-phone OS has been added to the mix: Symbian. The Layar Reality Browser just went live on Nokia’s Ovi Store for handsets such as the N8 and E7. If you’re new to Layar, it’s one of a …