You don’t need unlimited data on 4G, according to the head of the UK’s only 4G network, the Metro reports. The average customer only uses 1.4GB of data per month over 4G, rendering unlimited data plans “unnecessary”, EE’s CEO Olaf Swantee said in a speech at Mobile World Congress. EE has been criticised for its high …

Sprint now offers small-business customers a way to pool their mobile data usage and trim costs. Introduced on Friday and available only until June 13, the new plans are geared for businesses with up to 30 mobile devices. The plans cover smartphones, tablets, mobile hot spots, and USB dongles and require the standard two-year contract. The smartphone plan allocates 20GB …

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is expected to be upon us in just a couple of weeks, and here’s a fresh rumour to toss on the pyre. The handset will come in black and white colours, and with either 16GB, 32GB or 64GB storage, according to an insider who’s been whispering secrets to SamMobile. The S4’s predecessor — the multi-million-selling superstar that …

The White House today backed an Internet petition asking the Library of Congress to change its stance on the legality of smartphone unlocking. In a post on the We The People blog, R. David Edelman, the White House senior adviser for Internet, innovation and privacy, said the administration agrees with those who signed the petition, and aims to support any …

People looking at the Samsung Galaxy S4 may soon learn that it’s looking back at them, tracking their eye movements to perform key tasks. That’s the word in a new report that says eye-tracking software will be built into the new smartphone, which Samsung plans to announce in New York on March 14. The New York Times, citing a person …

HANOVER, Germany–You’re traveling and your coworker needs your key to get into your office. Why not just e-mail it? That’s the idea behind Fraunhofer Institute’s Key2Share technology, which the German research lab is developing in partnership with Bosch and showing off here at the CeBIT show. Key2Share uses smartphones equipped with near-field communications (NFC) short-range wireless networking abilities to unlock …

Hackers can get past the Galaxy Note 2’s lock screen — if their fingers are fast enough. A minor security vulnerability has been found in Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note 2 smartphone-tablet hybrid, which leaves the door open to fast-fingered ne’er-do-wells. The flaw, first discovered by Terence Eden, finds that certain apps and widgets can be briefly accessed with a few …

Amid plans to ramp up its streaming service, Quickflix is considering a different payment option for TV series. (Credit: Quickflix) DVD rental and video-streaming service Quickflix made some tough decisions last year, sacking a third of its staff and seeking investments as cash reserves ran low. This year, it wants to push the streaming part of its business model even …

LG Electronics announced today it has sold more than 10 million LTE-capable smartphones worldwide as the company grapples with dwindling market share. The milestone comes a little more than six months after the company announced it had surpassed 5 million sales of LTE-enabled phones. “Aggressive pushing forward with 4G LTE technology allows LG [to] satisfy the needs of consumers and …

Tapping your phone on a console to pay for fries and a Coke is cool. Yet until the stars align, it’s not how you’ll be using NFC, the Near Field Communications standard that gets devices talking to one another quickly and in a very short range. Instead of using NFC to replace your credit card, it will increasingly become your …

T-Mobile will move to a no-contract model on March 24, with an announcement as early as Monday — that is, if a story on blog TmoNews pans out. In reporting the shift, Tmo cites an unnamed source — “while we’re confident the details are accurate today, they could easily change tomorrow,” it says — and it adds that T-Mobile will …

The Federal Communications Commission might eventually investigate whether it should be illegal for consumers to unlock their mobile phones. Speaking to TechCrunch in an interview published yesterday, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said that the ban is “something that we will look at at the FCC to see if we can and should enable consumers to use unlocked phones.” He went …

The AME 2000, one of the world’s most secure phones (pictures) +4 more See all photos SAN FRANCISCO–Of all the multitudes of phones launching amid the grandeur of Barcelona this week, Motorola Solutions quietly broke champagne over one device from the back corner of a convention center here. The Motorola AME 2000, originally announced a few weeks back, is not …

Aldi will be offering its own low-cost mobile plans using the Telstra network from early March. (Credit: Aldi) Starting on 6 March, Aldi will join the ranks of low-cost mobile providers, as revealed by A Current Affair. The German supermarket chain will use Telstra’s Next G network to deliver the data and calls. The Aldi Mobile site will have the …

If you were a little disappointed by the Surface Pro being exclusive to the US, you won’t have much longer to wait — Microsoft is bringing the full Windows 8 Surface to Britain “in the coming months”. While Microsoft didn’t exactly offer much explanation as to how many months that would be, or if it’ll be on sale in John …