BARCELONA, Spain — If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of Gangnam Style or have a passing familiarity with Korean pop groups such as Girl’s Generation or Super Junior. Those who’ve always admired the slick dance moves of such groups can now learn how to do so with the free Kpop Dance app (available on …

BARCELONA, Spain — Qualcomm and KT have been giving delegates at Mobile World Congress a taste of the faster download speeds we can expect to see around the world soon. Tucked away in the corner of one exhibition hall is KT (formerly Korea Telecom) showing off a modified Samsung Galaxy Note 3 connected to a bunch of computers at its …

BARCELONA, Spain — While companies are still figuring out the best way to use Apple’s location-sensing tech, iBeacon, push notification specialist Urban Airship believes it has a way to make it relevant to both retailers and consumers. Urban Airship on Wednesday unveiled enhancements to its service, offering a new way to automate marketing messages and specifically target audiences for push …

Boeing has made a smartphone that appears to have come straight out of a James Bond movie. Codenamed “Black,” this spy-like phone will erase all data and deactivate if tampered with or pried open. The aerospace and defense company filed documents for the phone with the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday. These documents were first sighted by tech site Myce, …

AT&T on Wednesday confirmed that the Android 4.4 update is ready for Samsung Galaxy S4. Related stories: Samsung updates Galaxy S4, Note 3 with Android KitKat Exploring the Galaxy S5’s features (pictures) AT&T follows Verizon, offers free global texts with Mobile Share Expected to roll out over the coming days, the KitKat update also brings a number of other noteworthy …

If you’ve been umming and ahhing over whether to buy a Kindle Fire tablet, this latest Amazon sale could sway you. Until 4 March, the retailer is slashing the price of all its tablets by 20 per cent. It does these kinds of sales quite often, but this is the biggest price cut yet. That means the Kindle Fire HDX …

As the Galaxy S5 becomes official, Samsung’s Galaxy brand is perhaps the biggest force in modern tech. But how did Samsung build its Galactic Empire? In the latest episode of Adventures in Tech, we explain how — after a rocky start — the Galaxy strategy turned Samsung into a mobile superpower. Press play now. Ready for more Adventures? Watch: Why …

Where there’s a WILL there’s a Wacom. WILL, or Wacom Ink Layer Language, was announced Wednesday by the specialists in digital art devices to create a standard language for drawing on the screens of phones, tablets, laptops, or any digital devices. WILL is an abstract language that records brush strokes in a consistent format regardless of how they were drawn, …

Goophone, a company that has made a name for itself by building smartphone lookalikes, is at it again. Just days after Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5, Goophone has launched a lookalike. Appropriately named the Goophone S5, the device has a 5-inch 1080p display, 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and runs Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Although its specs might not match those of …

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S5 new software and camera features 3:24 BARCELONA, Spain — Artificial spot lighting at trade show booths doesn’t make for the optimal conditions to test out what a camera can do. However, it does at least give you a fairly good idea of how the Samsung Galaxy S5’s 16-megapixel shooter works in this kind of …

It’s been a few months since Motorola announced its modular smartphone idea called Project Ara. Since then, Google has sold the phone maker to Lenovo and it’s been unclear what would happen with the project. But now, new details are emerging. It turns out Google held onto Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group where Project Ara was housed. Run …

BARCELONA, Spain — In the future, the world will be full of wearables and smartphones that can bend whatever way you want — at least, that’s what Kyocera imagines it will be. At MWC this year, the Japanese phone company showed off some of its quirky concept devices, along with its family of waterproof Hydro smartphones. Though none of these …

IBM wants to bring its Jeopardy-winning cognitive computing system Watson to the mobile industry. During a keynote address at Mobile World Congress 2014, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a global competition to promote the development of mobile consumer and business apps powered by Watson. During the next three months, IBM is calling on software …

EA founder Trip Hawkins has raised a bundle of cash to build out his learning game for children. Hawkins’ startup, If You Can Company, raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by venture-capital firm Greylock Partners, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. Almaz Capital also participated in the round. If You Can Company’s game, called If…, …

Few posts I’ve written have generated as much interest as the one about the Republic Wireless Moto X, and I’m not surprised: For $299 you get one of the most celebrated phones of 2013, with no-contract service plans starting at an impossible $5 per month. The key question on everyone’s mind: How is it? Does Republic’s version of the Moto …