Here’s a late-breaking bargain for dedicated Skype customers — the voice-calling service is offering free worldwide calls for a month, if you sign up to the offer before the end of today. The deal nabs you unlimited dialling, including to offline contacts on mobile numbers and landlines, which normally costs £8.49 per month. Not a …

Rumour has it that the Windows Phone 7.8 update will be released on Wednesday night. (Credit: Microsoft) Pre-existing Windows Phone users who will miss out on Windows 8 will still be able to get a bunch of new features with an update to Windows Phone 7 — which might arrive as soon as Wednesday night, according to WMPoweruser. The website …

Nokia has announced two new phones designed for budget-conscious and socially-networked users, although they won’t be available in the United States. Unveiled today, the Asha 205 and 206 feature phones each sell for $62. They also offer quick access to Facebook and the ability to share photos and files with users of any other mobile phone. Both phones are slated …

Now playing: Watch this: The LG Nexus 4 arrives, but with no LTE 3:33 In the best example of things being taken, then given, only to be then taken away again, it was recently discovered that the massively popular LG Nexus 4 houses an LTE modem that works… sort of. The revelation began over at iFixit, which posted a teardown …

The head of Nokia’s imaging department has decided to leave the company, Reuters reports. Damian Dinning, the man behind the 808 PureView 41-megapixel camera phone, has decided to take a job at Jaguar Land Rover, where he’ll play a key part in its connected car division. Which is a bit of a blow for the floundering Finnish phone firm. Dinning …

Here we go again. Samsung has issued a fresh batch of steaming hot legal accusations at Apple, alleging its iPad mini, latest iPad, and iPod touch all violate its patents, our sister site CNET News reports. It asked a federal district court in the US to add the products to its ongoing legal squabble with Apple. The Korean company alleges …

Microsoft will be launching its Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade on Wednesday, if rumors reported by Tonis Tech Blog today are correct. The blog cited unnamed sources “near the subject.” Meanwhile, WPCentral found some Finnish promotional materials that revealed there will be another update after the 7.8 update. Related stories Bill Gates’s top mistake? Letting Google’s Android rule the world (The …

Will Apple soon start making a cheap iPhone? That’s what one analyst reckons, and the reasons do seem to add up. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster — not of those ones, sadly — thinks that at some point in the next two years, Apple will make a special version of the iPhone that’ll cost just $200 (£125), Business Insider reports. He …

If you’re one of the folks with enough of an itch for new Nokia gear that you pre-ordered the Lumia 920 from Telstra, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. (Credit: Nokia) Gizmodo is reporting that due to a hold-up with the free JBL PlayUp speaker that the pre-orders were set to get, the phone will be delayed as well, …

There may be a recession on, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from producing a run of limited edition Xperia P phones cased in solid gold. That may sound a rather strange move considering the current economic climate, but it doesn’t look like Sony will be selling them. Instead, it’s giving them away via its Facebook page. The aim of the …

The HTC Deluxe is rumoured to be a 5-inch, 1080p challenger to the Galaxy Note 2‘s phablet crown. But here’s some bad news for anyone looking forward to getting their hands on it — the device might not be coming to Europe after all. That’s according to HTC’s Facebook page. A fan, glorying in the name of Ingo Hochheim, posted …

With the end of the year fast approaching, it’s time to look back at the best tellies of the last 12 months and pick our 10 favourite sets. To sort the wheat from the chaff, we’ve plumped for TVs that offer the best combination of stunning picture quality, strong features and value for money So without further ado, in reverse …

On-demand TV service YouView is being sued, by a company that claims its name is way too similar to one of its own services. Telecommunications service Total Ltd registered the trademark for its ‘YourView’ online customer portal in 2009, and now says that the Lord Sugar-chaired YouView is trampling disastrously all over its property like an elephant in golf shoes. …

Aimed at the medical market, Sony’s new OLED TV boasts a resolution of 2048×2560 pixels. Sony’s PVM-2551MD (Credit: Sony) While Sony’s XEL-1 retail OLED is very much discontinued, the company is still working with OLED technology. According to a press release, Sony will unveil the medical display later this month. The screen is 20.5 inches, with a 2048×2560 resolution. Because …

IPTV service Fetch TV is contemplating a National Broadband Network (NBN) investment that could see it become a major pay-TV competitor. The Fetch TV PVR(Credit: Fetch TV) The Australian is reporting that Fetch TV is contemplating an NBN deal that would see it become a network backhaul operator. The move would allow the IPTV service to create a multicast system …