Samsung made a record profit in the three months between April and June, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 8 helping the Korean company trouser £4.52bn profit. The hotly-anticipated S4 hit shops in April. After a slow start to the year, boffo business on the new flagship Android phone returned Samsung to its record-beating ways …

Samsung kept its firm lead over Apple in the smartphone arena last quarter, though both companies saw their shares drop. For the second quarter, Samsung’s slice of the global smartphone market inched down to 30.4 percent from 32.2 percent a year ago, IDC said in a report released Thursday. However, shipments jumped to 72.4 million from 50.3 million over the …

A third of phones sold are Samsung phones. New figures saw the Galaxy S4 and its ilk continue to dominate the mobile world, as the iPhone’s slice of the pie shrank to its smallest in three years. New figures from industry numbercrunchers Strategy Analytics reveal that 33 per cent of phones sold between April and June were Samsungs, up from …

Consumers will be able to pick up a new iPhone or Galaxy S4 phone through T-Mobile with zero dollars down. Starting Saturday, the carrier’s new summer promotion offers a variety of 4G LTE smartphones, feature phones, tablets, and mobile hotspots with no upfront cost and regular monthly payments. For example, you could get Apple’s 16GB iPhone5 for $27 a month, …

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing the fight to protect my kids from bad language, extreme violence, and the other inappropriate content that crops up in a lot of today’s movies. And because they know how to access the Netflix account, it’s increasingly hard to filter out the stuff I don’t think they’re ready for. SpiritClips, recently acquired by Hallmark, …

Ain’t no cure for the summertime blues — but the new blue Samsung Galaxy S4 might cheer you up. The new lighter blue version of the S4 — Samsung calls it ‘arctic blue’ — is now on sale at Phones 4U, both in shops and online. It’s a fetching royal blue, rather than the darker, purple-er original model. At the …

One of the biggest televisions you can buy in the UK is now on sale at John Lewis, if you can fit it through your door. The Sharp Aquos LC-90LE757 is a 90-inch monster. Those 90-inches measure from corner-to-corner, and the telly stands 1.2 metres high and 2 metres across. You need to sit 3.5m away from the TV to …

Breaking Bad‘s final season is coming to Netflix before it hits your television. The online streaming service, home of Arrested Development and House of Cards, will show new episodes before they’re on UK TV. The final eight episodes of the hit US show will appear online on Netflix in the UK and Ireland every Monday, the day after they’re broadcast …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Chromecast pushes videos to TV 1:44 Google has an instant hit with its $35 Chromecast, apparently selling more than 250,000 units almost immediately. It’s been so unexpectedly popular, in fact, that the company had to discontinue its initial three-month Netflix promotion. Related stories Got a Streaming Device? You Need to Change These Settings ASAP Best …

Now playing: Watch this: Set up the Google Chromecast 3:23 To hear Google tell it, you’d think its Chromecast practically installed itself. I can tell you from experience that this is not the case. To Google’s credit, Chromecast setup is a breeze compared with some of the hair-pulling experiences I’ve had involving the Apple TV, for which I suspect Apple …

Fancy piping the new series of Top Gear onto your TV through BBC iPlayer but don’t have a smart TV? Step this way, chum, as Now TV will bring iPlayer and a host of other smart services to your existing tellybox and only costs a tenner. The box both looks and acts a bit like the Apple TV. Simply plug …

If you’re sick of figuring out how to trail an Ethernet cable up to your Sky box’s rump, salvation could be just around the corner — the broadcaster has revealed that it’s cooking up a Sky HD box with built-in Wi-Fi. The swanky new box, which will connect to the Internet wirelessly, will be handed out as standard to new …

Last night’s official launch of the Nokia Lumia 925 held one small surprise for attendees: news of an exclusive deal for Vodafone Australia. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Globally, the phone comes in either 16GB or 32GB, depending on which market you’re in. Telstra and Optus both have the 16GB versions, and it was thought that like the US, the 32GB …

Nokia has a new app designed to help Lumia users post their videos to YouTube. But for now it seems limited to just the new Lumia 1020. Now available in Microsoft’s Windows Phone store, YouTube Upload allows users to select and post their video onto YouTube directly through the Photos app, or trim it with the Nokia Video Trimmer app …

T-Mobile said on Thursday that it has doubled the presence of its low-end prepaid arm MetroPCS as it looks to continue sticking it to AT&T. MetroPCS service is available in 15 additional markets, including Washington, D.C., Houston, Seattle, and San Diego. The service also gets two new prepaid phones starting tomorrow: Nokia’s Lumia 521 and the LG Optimus F3. Related …