We’ve already seen pictures taken with the upcoming Nexus 10 tablet, thanks to Google’s Vic Gundotra. Now we’re seeing pictures of the device itself. Days before the Nexus 10 is expected to make its debut in New York, new images have surfaced purporting to show the device and the updated version of Android it’s running on. [Note: Monday’s …

Even Apple’s iPhone 5 couldn’t slow Samsung Electronics down. The Korean conglomerate’s flagship Galaxy S III had four of its five best-selling weeks in the U.S. after the iPhone 5 was unveiled, Samsung told CNET. The spike after the iPhone 5 launch suggests that consumers hung around to see what Apple had to show off, weren’t impressed, and went with …

HTC today warned that its revenue and profitability will continue to slide in the fourth quarter amid continued pressure in the smartphone business. The Taiwan-based company, which primarily builds smartphones and some tablets, warned that its revenue will fall 40 percent year over year to 60 billion Taiwan dollars ($2.05 billion). Its gross margins are expected to decline to 23 …

What looks to be an instruction manual for the Samsung Nexus 10 has appeared online, offering clues as to the design of this hotly-tipped tablet. LG may be making an upcoming Nexus smart phone, but Samsung looks likely to lay claim to the next raw-Android powered tablet if these mysterious pages, spotted by the Verge, are anything to go by. …

Samsung and Apple are dominating the smartphone market, new data from research firm IDC has revealed. During the third quarter, Samsung shipped 56.3 million smartphones worldwide, helping it to secure 31.3 percent of that space for the three-month period. In the year-earlier quarter, Samsung shipped 28.1 million handsets for a 22.7 percent share. Samsung’s shipments last quarter were strong enough …

Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Unlike Windows 7, Windows 8 will not come with Windows Media Center as part of the operating system. It’s now an add-on that can be purchased through the Add Features option in Windows 8. For a limited time, however, Microsoft is offering Windows Media Center to Windows 8 Pro customers for free. Here’s how to get …

Google’s Nexus 7 line might soon have a new entrant. According to reports out of the U.K., some retailers are cutting the price of the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet. Android Authority, which earlier reported on the pricing, found a handful of retailers who have cut the price. One retailer, named Comet, is currently offering the tablet for 179.99 pounds, down …

It looked as though we’d have to wait until Google’s event on the 29 October to see the next Nexus phone unveiled, but Carphone Warehouse has jumped the gun, putting the LG Nexus 4 up for pre-order on its website. Those interested in the yet-to-be-made-official Android smart phone can throw down cash for the blower now, with Carphone Warehouse promising …

There’s no denying that Sprint Nextel is losing customers, but the company’s CEO says it’s all part of a natural, if painful, transition that he hopes will put Sprint in a much stronger position to take on rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse emphasized on the company’s conference call — and again in an interview with CNET …

The the slow pendulum swing toward the smart TV is about to hit WebOS. LG has teamed up with Gram, the organization established by HP to handle the WebOS project, to create a television that will be running on the open-source operating system, according to a new report from WebOS Nation. That blog reports that LG and Gram have been …

Sony just confirmed U.S. pricing and availability for its latest handset, the Xperia TL. You can expect the handset, official smartphone of the ‘Skyfall” James Bond film, to cost $99.99 on November 2. I’m not sure about you but when I think of a gadget worthy of 007’s tool kit, I imagine an sophisticated multimillion dollar device able to make …

EE is fighting to reassure disgruntled potential customers, following news that the UK’s first 4G service will come with caps on how much data you can use. Taking to Twitter, EE said, “We’ve had tons of comments over the last 24 hours, some would make our mothers blush.” In a colourful image attached to the tweet, the nascent network goes …

Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to deliver an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3. Available starting this morning as an over-the-air update, the handset will benefit from features such as Google Now, enhanced and expanded notifications, and Android Beam. Related stories As Worries Grow Around Russian Cyberattacks, Update Your Operating Systems Bill Gates’s top mistake? …

SwiftKey Looks like Android’s top-selling keyboard app, SwiftKey, has a sibling in the works, in the form of a new program called SwiftKey Flow. Officially announced today, SwiftKey Flow takes a page out of competitor Swype‘s book, by letting its users input text via continuous gliding gestures. What differentiates SwiftKey Flow, however, is the underlying natural-language technology that’s been migrated …

Do you dream of traveling to the stars? Unless you’ve got $20 million and change for a ticket to orbit, Vito Technology’s Solar Walk is about as close as you’re going to get. This jaw-dropping iOS app provides a wholly interactive 3D model of our solar system, one that’s had me hooked for days. It’s the kind of thing you …