(Credit: Humble Bundle) A new Humble Bundle is offering eight sci-fi and fantasy ebooks by authors such as Nail Gaiman, Cory Doctorow and Kelly Link. This is the first time that Humble Bundle is offering a collection of ebooks in a sale, which will run for just two weeks from today. As usual, you pay …

SAN DIEGO – The Department of Defense says it’s onboard with freeing up more wireless spectrum for commercial wireless broadband use. But proposals that rely heavily on the government sharing wireless spectrum with private sector wireless carriers doesn’t jive with what the industry wants. Robert Wheeler, Major General United States Air Force, Deputy CIO Department of Defense, talks about the …

Google and LG’s Nexus smartphone is getting closer to reality after it popped up Carphone Warehouse’s inventory system. A listing for an LG Nexus 4 appeared in the U.K. retailer’s system, according to a picture posted by The Verge. Related stories TV in the Bathroom: Technically Doable but a Very Bad Idea Best Laptop for 2022: The 15 Laptops We …

Now playing: Watch this: LG’s Optimus G offers a full four cores of CPU power 1:50 SAN DIEGO–CNET has spent enough time with LG’s new flagship, quad-core LG Optimus G to portend great things for LG’s image, especially now that the Android 4.0 powerhouse will come to both AT&T and Sprint. There’s just one early snag. Yesterday, I spent some …

Like any parent, I prize the Picasso-caliber works of art my kids create at school and around the house. Alas, I don’t own a warehouse, so I simply don’t have room to store all these masterpieces. What am I supposed to do, throw them in the trash? The guilt! The guilt! Now there’s an app for that: Art My Kid …

It’s official, BlackBerry 10 developers: RIM has declared open season for BB10 app submissions. A recent post on the company’s development blog confirms that RIM is now accepting entries for applications that specifically target the long-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system. The post in question also lays out how to begin the submission process to the BlackBerry storefront as well offering …

A new mobile application centering on President Barack Obama and his daily activities has launched. But it hasn’t launched where you might expect. The U.S. Government Printing Office and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register announced today that they have launched the Presidential Documents app (PDF). The program comes with access to all of the president’s executive orders, …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini isn’t supposed to be officially unveiled until tomorrow, but details on this miniature Android marvel are emerging ahead of time. German site mobilegeeks.de has an image of the upcoming device, which Samsung says it will show off very shortly, alongside a crop of specifications. Most interesting among the rumours is word that Android 4.1 Jelly …

You want to bring the best out of your Samsung Galaxy S3 phone by using a custom ROM, but you dread spending days trawling the web for the best ones? Good news then, as I’ve done the dirty work for you. There are myriad benefits to enjoy from installing a custom ROM, over and above what you’d get with the …

Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD 4G tablet has received clearance from the Federal Communications Commission, Amazon told Reuters today. Although the device was unveiled last month, Amazon had not yet received the commission’s approval to sell the device, which is required of all new wireless communications devices to assure device safety and prevent spectrum interference issues. Amazon Web pages and …

Rivals have taken note of the Samsung Galaxy Note‘s success: details are emerging of the HTC DLX, a 5-inch Android phone-cum-tablet. Well-informed HTC modder Football quotes specs for the rumoured DLX, which at 5 inches straddles the divide between smart phone and tablet. That 5-inch display is a high-definition 1080p job. Underneath that sizable slab of a screen is a …

HTC doesn’t plan on announcing a new Android-based tablet for the United States anytime soon, according to statements directly from the Taiwanese company. Calling its previous efforts (HTC Flyer, Evo View 4G, and HTC Jetstream) its “first foray”, HTC indicates it was pleased with results. In a written statement provided to CNET, Jeff Gordon, HTC’s global online communications manager, suggests …

I remember picking up my email for the first time on my mobile over 10 years ago. I was using one of the first BlackBerry phones, and it felt a little bit like magic. If someone sent me a message, it just arrived — I didn’t need to ask the phone to check for it, and the Qwerty keyboard was …

Now playing: Watch this: Lawmakers telling US companies not to buy from Huawei… 5:26 Huawei and ZTE, two of China’s largest and most successful mobile companies, are once again under fire in the U.S. Over the last couple of days, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has received “dozens and dozens” of calls complaining about Huawei and ZTE, Reuters …

The Galaxy S3 close up. On Thursday, Samsung will announce the ‘mini’ version of the popular smartphone. Samsung has confirmed that it will unveil a smaller version of the popular Galaxy S III smartphone tomorrow. Speaking to Korean media this morning, Samsung mobile chief JK Shin said that Samsung will lift the lid on a 4-inch version of the Android-powered …