Google is continuing to lay off staff at Motorola, which it bought last year. According to an email to employees — seen by the Wall Street Journal — a further 1,200 of them will get the chop. That’s about 10 per cent of Motorola’s workforce. The cuts are in addition to 4,000 layoffs that started …

The HTC One is due to launch on these shores next week, but it could be in short supply, due to a lack of parts. Which would be a bit of a bummer for HTC, considering the handset is the company’s next flagship, and its main hope of reviving its fortunes. There’s also a certain other handset launching the day …

Freshly leaked details for an upcoming HTC Myst seem to confirm rumors of a new “Facebook phone.” Related stories Facebook’s $90 Million Data-Tracking Settlement: There Are Only Days Left to File a Claim Before the Deadline Tech Companies Ramp Up Efforts to Combat Online Extremism Championing Impactful, Awarding-Winning Journalism in a Changing World Specifications obtained by Unwired View line up …

BlackBerry will put its flagship BlackBerry Z10 smartphone on sale on March 22 through AT&T, according to Bloomberg. That will be the first day that the Z10 hits the U.S. market, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Spending …

The needle is skipping for Apple’s planned music streaming service, as the iPhone and iPad giant struggles to reach a deal with record labels. The purported streaming rival to Spotify and popular US service Pandora, inevitably nicknamed iRadio, was thought to have been planned for early this year. But the New York Post reports that negotiations with record labels over licensing …

Apple Maps is getting better, even beating Google Maps in an informal race between Silicon Valley reporters — but any improvements are yet to reach the rest of the world. Like a kind of geektastic Cannonball Run, tech expert John C. Dvorak raced Leo LaPorte, Lisa Kentzell, and Glenn Rubenstein from The Week in Tech to Apple’s California headquarters, each …

It’s an awesome time to own an iDevice. You can get unlimited movie and TV streaming from Netflix, unlimited music from the likes of Rdio and Spotify, and even unlimited magazines from Next Issue (for iPads, anyway). Great news for comic-book fans: Now you can get unlimited comics as well. Marvel Unlimited, previously a Web-only service, just debuted for iOS. …

The iPhone and iPad continue to outshine Android devices among businesses both large and small, says a report from cloud storage company Egnyte. Among the 100,000 Egnyte customers tracked for the new report, iOS has carved out an increasingly higher share while Android’s slice has dipped of late. Egnyte sells online storage, file sharing, and other cloud-based services to businesses …

The next time you’re looking for your misplaced Android smartphone, check the freezer. It’s possible, however unlikely, that someone is trying to hack into your data using a new FROST attack method. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany have learned that it is possible to access personal information on Android 4.0 smartphones using a chilling technique. Called FROST, or forensic …

Start stretching out those palms, people — fresh rumours suggest Samsung is cooking up its biggest smart phone yet, to debut in the second half of 2013. The mobile, which if real would surely be the third Galaxy Note smart phone, is reckoned to sport a 5.9-inch OLED display, the Korea Times reports, citing a company official speaking “on condition …

Windows Phone is a particularly slick operating system — both easy and fun to use. But as it matures, each new update has brought new abilities, some of which you may have missed. Or, as the excellent Nokia Lumia 620 is so reasonably priced, you might well be new to Windows Phone entirely. To get you up to speed, here …

I’ve got news for you, Ask Maggie readers. The cell phone toting public in the U.S. has been hoodwinked into continuing to pay high service fees on devices even after we have paid for the devices in full. Wireless operators tell us their expensive early termination fees are to recoup the subsidy paid for our phones if we leave the …

AT&T said today that its customers shouldn’t fear the law against unlocking phones because the carrier will do the unlocking for them. As part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Library of Congress has ruled it illegal for people to unlock their own phones, a decision that has irked consumer advocacy groups and prompted a petition to the White …

All so-called LED TVs are really just LCD TVs that use LEDs for their backlight. This backlight creates the light that allows the LCD to create an image. However, there are multiple ways these LED backlights can be arranged, and that arrangement can have a dramatic effect on picture quality. So here’s your guide to all the different versions, with …

Delivery time for the Google Nexus 4 has been slashed to its shortest time ever. Order now and you’ll have the phenomenally popular Android smart phone in as little as three days. And the Google Nexus 7 now has a dock too. After stock shortages saw the Nexus 4 available to buy for just a few hours in its first …