Want to edit video on your iPad? Apple’s $4.99 iMovie is the go-to choice for most folks. But now there’s another option, and it won’t cost you a penny. Pinnacle Studio 2.0 for iPad used to be Avid Studio for iPad, and it used to cost $4.99, same as iMovie. Now owned by Corel, it’s …

Google Play is getting personal by bringing tailored app recommendations straight to your Android phone. This special treatment has been available on the web version of the Google Play store for a month or so, but now you can be pampered by the mobile version too. Enter the app section of the store today and you’ll have the option to …

Sony used the the IFA tech extravaganza in Berlin this week to introduce a trio of new Android-based smartphones. Called the Xperia T, J, and V, they run the gamut from low-end to top-tier and should be enough to tide the company over until CES in January. In addition to the three handsets, Sony also unveiled its Android-powered Xperia Tablet …

Months after Hewlett-Packard originally announced the open-source version of WebOS, the beta version of the platform is on its way out the door. Today’s release includes two environments for developers. The first is the desktop build, which is said to provide “the ideal development environment” for designing the WebOS user experience with more features and integrating other open-source technologies on …

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon Kindle Fire 2:44 Amazon may have sold close to 5 million Kindle Fire tablet since the device debuted late last year. At least, that’s the number estimated by Asymco analyst Horace Dediu based on Amazon’s own claims. The retail company said yesterday that the Fire accounted for 22 percent of all tablet sales in the …

What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by eschewing all forms of labor, instead kicking back with your phone or tablet and rocking some serious run-and-gun action? To help you accomplish that nation-honoring act of laziness, Gameloft is offering three Android games on the cheap. Throughout the weekend, you can get Gangstar Rio: City of Saints, Modern Combat 3: …

A few more details trickled out today regarding the new Android smartphone that Motorola is expected to unveil next week. Citing a person familiar with the handset, Bloomberg reports that it will feature an edge-to-edge display and support 4G LTE networks. The source didn’t spill any other details, except that the device will go on sale with Verizon Wireless later …

Now playing: Watch this: The Kyocera Rise is an Android 4.0, QWERTY phone 1:13 Initially launched on Sprint, the Kyocera Rise is now available on prepaid network Virgin Mobile starting today. The Rise is an entry-level keyboard handset running on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s equipped with a 3.5-inch HVGA touch screen, a 3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1GHz …

Just as it looked like 4G might finally be coming to the UK this year, after Ofcom okayed Everything Everywhere’s plan to reuse its 2G spectrum, a fresh legal challenge is brewing from a distinctly disgruntled O2 that could throw a spanner in the works of a 2012 4G rollout. The Guardian is reporting that Telefonica, O2’s parent company, has …

We thought it was dead and gone, with a stake through its black heart and its foul corpse incinerated in napalm, but Flash for Android has risen from its stinking grave to haunt us once more. And it’s all thanks to the BBC. Auntie and other ‘strategic partners’ of Flash-spawner Adobe have put pressure on the company to make Flash …

Photo taking apps are a dime a dozen in the App Store, but if you look a little deeper, you can make some really cool projects as long as you use some creativity. Instead of simply giving your photos a retro look like many of the popular camera apps, there are a number of options that turn your images into …

It’s pretty hard to get excited about budget ‘droids. Value for money is all too often a euphemism for ‘sluggish, small and shonky‘. But, every so often, a cheap-as-chips Android phone comes along that knocks our socks off. This year we’ve been singing the praises of an exceptionally good value blower made by Chinese mobile maker Huawei: the Ascend G300. …

Technology retailer Kogan and Quickflix have joined forces to add the popular video-streaming service to the Kogan Agora smart TV HDMI dongle and includes a six-week trial. The Agora dongle now has Quickflix functionality. (Credit: Kogan) The dongle — which is has been available for a number of weeks now — plugs in to an HDMI, and uses the Android …

The newest version of PayPal for Android is out, and it sports a refreshed interface, complete with the “Holo” styling typical of apps designed for Android 4.0 and above. All of the main navigation is at the top, with the familiar dotted menu button sitting on the top-right of the Action Bar. With all of PayPal’s core features now split …

Samsung is working to modify its products to ensure they don’t get caught up in an injunction, a new report claims. The Korea Times reported yesterday, citing sources, that it spoke with Samsung officials who said that the company is in talks with U.S. carriers, including Verizon Wireless, to determine the best way to modify designs across its Galaxy line. …