Today’s launch of the Quick Tap contactless mobile-payments service means Orange customers with a compatible …

Are customers ready to drop $500 for this 7-inch tablet? HTC Best Buy announced late yesterday that it will begin offering a Wi-Fi version of the HTC Flyer on Sunday, May 22. The retail giant is already taking preorders for the 7-inch tablet, which sells for $499.99. The Flyer runs Android 2.3 with a tablet-optimized version of HTC’s Sense UI, …

The patent portfolio of defunct Israeli phone manufacturer Modu has been bought by Google for around £3m. Modu manufactured tiny phones that could be slid into a range of different jackets, with various designs and functions. For example, the Modu 1 could be inserted into a dock that turned it into a digital picture frame, or a jacket that added a 3-megapixel …