Now you see it, now you don’t. Just over a month after car-hailing service Uber launched support for taxi service in New York City, the company is pulling out, CEO Travis Kalanick confirmed to CNET in an e-mailed statement today. All mention of taxi service in New York City has also been removed from the …

The company lucky enough to nab Microsoft’s keynote spot at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is … Qualcomm. Paul Jacobs, chief executive of the wireless chip giant, will give the coveted pre-show keynote at CES, filling the slot Microsoft vacated late last year. Jacobs, who also gave keynotes at the 2012 and 2010 shows, will speak at 6:30 p.m. PT …

The size of the average mobile application is on the rise, according to the results of a new study. As part of its Mobile Application Markets research report, ABI Research today said that the size of the average iOS application last month was 16 percent greater than in March, with even larger growth in some specific app categories. The big …

Don’t hold your breath for a deal between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. With Sprint getting taken over by Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank, many believed Sprint would take full ownership of Clearwire, which provides 4G services to carriers and consumers in select markets. In addition to being Clearwire’s largest customer, Sprint is the largest shareholder too, although it doesn’t have control …

What gives? You wait blinkin’ ages for a decent set-top box to show its interface, and then a whole bunch come along at once. The Humax Freesat+ HD with free time is the latest television service to pop up and is set to hit the shelves of major retailers up and down the land on 17 October — that’s this …

Is this a golden age of television? Is digital piracy unethical? What would it take to push someone over the edge, into a world of horrific violence? These are the questions that keep us up at night. Thank goodness, then, that I had the chance to get a little face time with Bryan Cranston, star of TV masterpiece Breaking Bad, to …

After a three-year wait, ‘Avatar’ is finally available in 3D on Blu-ray. 20th Century Fox It was almost three years ago that “Avatar” debuted in cinemas, and today eager fans can finally do what they wanted to do when it first came out on Blu-ray: watch it in 3D at home. The reason you couldn’t buy it on 3D Blu-ray …

We’ve already seen LG’s upcoming Nexus 4 photographed from every angle imaginable, and now someone’s gone and reviewed it, before it’s even been announced. Talk about jumping the gun. The review comes courtesy of Belarusian blog Onliner, via The Verge. It’s calling it a “preliminary review”, so we probably shouldn’t take it as gospel. But it makes for interesting reading …

Amazon could be planning to acquire a mobile processor business, a new report claims. Texas Instruments and Amazon are currently engaged in “advanced talks” over the possibility of the Kindle maker acquiring Texas Instruments’ mobile chip business, Israel-based news outlet Calcalist is reporting today (translate), citing sources. The news outlet didn’t say how much Amazon hopes to pay in the …

A full 25 million mobile users in the Middle East can now use Wikipedia without worrying about data charges. The Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) have teamed up to offer the free access through a program known as Wikipedia Zero. The goal behind this initiative is to help people in developing countries more easily get information through Wikipedia. Many …

Samsung has taken the wraps off a collection of Windows devices, including a Windows 8 ultrabook with a touch screen. As part of its “Smart PC” strategy, the Korean electronics giant tonight unveiled its 13-inch Series 5 Ultra Touch Windows 8 ultrabook, which starts at $809.99 for a Core i3 and features a 1366×768 display, 4GB of RAM, and 500GB …

4G really needs to get its skates on — for the sake of our national reputation. Mobile Internet is four times faster in nippy New York than it is in lagging London, according to a new report from pro tester RootMetrics. Mobile data averaged 2.3Mbps download speed across a hefty 11,413 tests in our capital, and 8.5Mbps over 5,294 tests …

The odd relationship between Apple and Samsung has taken a turn for the seriously frosty, according to analysts. Apple is becoming increasingly less dependent on the Korean company for the chips to power its mobile phones, our sister site CNET News reports. We’d previously heard a rumour about Apple going to other chip suppliers, and now it looks like it’s …

Here’s another look at RIM’s next generation of mobiles. A RIM employee was spotted demoing the L-series London BlackBerry 10 device in Mexico, Wired reports. This is the mobile that first leaked last year, but now we’ve got a good long look at it in action, along with its BB10 operating system. The phone itself looks pretty much as expected, …

Softbank may be the shot in the arm that Sprint Nextel needs to finally be competitive with the big boys in the U.S. Sprint and Softbank confirmed early Monday that they had agreed to a deal in which Softbank would spent $20.1 billion to take a 70 percent stake in the company. Softbank will pay shareholders $12.1 billion and invest …