AT&T is considering ways to expand abroad besides just making acquisitions, the wireless carrier’s chief executive said today. Randall Stephenson, speaking during a conference call with analysts following AT&T’s quarterly earnings report, said the shift to mobile in the U.S. over the past five years has been “impressive,” and said those changes are likely to …

Apple has promised to fix Apple Maps, the app that’s so bad at its job it’s had police warning against it. Top Apple chap Tim Cook promises, “We will continue making improvements until it lives up to our incredibly high expectations.” “We’ve made a number of improvements to Maps”, said Cook in answer to a question from an analyst while …

PC manufacturing giant Lenovo may be mulling a bid for Research In Motion as part of efforts to bolster its own smartphone unit.  At a CES press event this month, Lenovo had some of its smartphones on display. The K800, which the company announced last year at CES, has a 32nm “Medfield” Atom processor. Kent German/CNET According to a report by …

AT&T has looked at the idea of making consumers pay for their own smartphones in monthly installments, according to CEO Randall Stephenson. The idea of handset financing runs counter to the current model of subsidizing phones at a lower initial price in exchange for a higher monthly bill. Under handset financing, consumers would pay an upfront fee for the phone, …

Choice has referred Microsoft to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) for “misleading claims” around its Surface tablet. Choice is accusing Microsoft of “misleading claims” over the Surface. (Credit: Microsoft) According to Choice, the issue is with Microsoft claiming it has 32GB and 64GB hard disc space on two models of the Microsoft Surface tablet. Because of the preloaded …

Customers buying the Kindle Paperwhite through Amazon International are now getting their devices shipped directly to Aussie shores. (Credit: Amazon) We knew the Paperwhite would be coming sometime early this year — but we did not expect that Amazon would try to sneak the release in unnoticed. Following up on a report on Gizmodo that claimed some Australian customers were …

Siri was born in the military and was supposed to be built into Android phones. Yes, things could have been very different for the voice-activated question-answering app built into the iPhone had Apple not bought the company. Siri’s secret military background is revealed in a fascinating Huffington Post article. Like Johnny 5, the SRI project became Siri, escaping into the …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, said its fourth-quarter profit rose 76 percent to another record high on strong sales of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. The South Korean electronics giant today reported a net profit of 7.04 trillion won ($6.6 billion), up from 4.01 trillion won in the same period a year earlier. It was the fifth consecutive …

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has been snapped in a series of new leaked photos, which appear to show Samsung’s iPad mini rival being used in the wild. The pictures came to light on Italian site dday.it, and show a tablet with a rounded, silver-tipped design that calls to mind the Galaxy Note 2. The camera on the back …

The Doctor is back in the house this Easter. Doctor Who returns to our screens on Saturday 30 March, in the lead-up to the programme’s historic 50th anniversary this year. The TARDIS returns on the bank holiday weekend, so we can watch the Doctor’s latest adventure while stuffing our faces with Easter eggs and not worrying about work. There are …

Next season’s fullback-nutmegging, net-bursting, ball-boy-booting Premier League highlights will be shown online by The Sun and The Times in a £20m deal signed by News International. The newspaper group News International, which owns 39 per cent of Premier League broadcaster BSkyB, will show online clips of all 380 games. News International’s online clips kick off next season at the websites …

The successor to Samsung Electronics’ blockbuster Galaxy S3 could launch in April. That’s according to Samsung news Web site SamMobile, which pegs the phone’s launch on April 15. The Galaxy S franchise has emerged as a true competitor to the iPhone, and garners as much hype and anticipation as Apple’s marquee smartphone. While early iterations of the Galaxy S phone …

The Lenovo Idea Tab A2107 is now available for purchase through AT&T for $99 with a two-year contract or $199.99 without a commitment. The 7-inch tablet runs Android 4.0, has a 1,024×600 pixel resolution, 16GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, and 1.0 GHz Cortex-A9 SC CPU. The Idea Tab A2107 also has a microUSB port, a VGA front-facing camera, …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Ativ Odyssey for Verizon 1:25 The Samsung Ativ Odyssey, first announced last fall at Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch event, will hit Verizon stores January 24. The decidedly mid-range handset will also cost a very affordable $49.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year service contract. We were able to spend some hands-on time with …

LG’s rumoured 5-inch monster smart phone has been made official. The LG Optimus G Pro (rolls off the tongue and into the heart) is a 1080p palm-wrecker powered by a mighty 1.7GHz quad-core processor. The existence of the mammoth mobile was confirmed by Japanese network NTT Docomo, with an April release date for our pals in Japan. Discerning details through …