A few weeks ago, AT&T announced its intentions to follow Verizon with a new model of selling customers a pool of mobile data they can access across multiple devices. Today, AT&T stamps a date on the launch. Related stories AT&T unveils shared data plans AT&T vs Verizon: Which has the better shared data plan Verizon’s …

The killing of the YouTube app isn’t the only reported change in the latest beta version of iOS 6. According to 9to5Mac, Apple also has altered the privacy settings by adding support for Bluetooth sharing. The blog doesn’t elaborate on what you’d be able to do with the feature, but the included screenshot indicates that it will be used for …

Every day, we repeat the same routine tasks: turning on Wi-Fi at work, decreasing the brightness in the evening, enabling silent mode at night, and so on. By now, you probably perform these actions subconsciously, but what if you could “train” your phone to automatically complete these tasks, so you don’t have to? Tasker, a $6.49 app for Android, lets …

The latest in the ongoing patent court case: Samsung has claimed a 2005 fashion phone influenced Apple’s design, The Verge reports. Samsung has brought out an email from Steve Jobs to design supremo Jony Ive, including a link to the handset, and the phrase, “This may be our answer”. The Samsung SGH-E910 was made in 2005 in conjunction with Bang & …

Nokia has unveiled its latest plan to nail the smart phone market: nail varnish. Hot pink nail polish, to be precise, that matches the new pink Nokia Lumia 900. If you’re currently staring at your half-chewed nails and thinking OMG, some Lumia lustre is just what I need, then head to Dallas, Denver or Los Angeles, where Nicki Minaj’s nail stylist …

Take note: the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 hits shops this month, Samsung has confirmed. The oversized half-brother to the popular 5.3-inch Galaxy Note sports the Note’s trademark stylus and a bigger 10.1-inch screen that you can split in half to do two things at once. We first saw the Note 10.1 in February, but Samsung has thrown out that design and gone back …

Apple and Samsung Electronics’ lead over the rest of the handset field only widened in the second quarter, with the two companies combining for a staggering 108 percent of the industry’s operating profit. How can two companies exceed the 100 percent mark? When several of the other companies, including Research in Motion, Nokia, Motorola, and Sony, posted hefty operating losses …

Nuance has announced the availability of a software-development kit (SDK) for a new voice-recognition software that it’s calling Nina, offering developers the opportunity to incorporate Siri-like natural language recognition into any app for iOS and Android. To be clear, Nina itself isn’t an app for users to download. Instead, it is a collection of APIs bundled together into an SDK …

Samsung is preparing for a month of new Note product launches, with a Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet to be unveiled mid-August in the US, while the Note handset will be on display on 29 August — just in time for the IFA electronics expo in Berlin, Germany. Last year’s surprise hit: the Galaxy Note. (Credit: Samsung) Samsung confirmed the upcoming …

The story of Nokia and Windows Phone takes another twist. At least, the Nokia Lumia X concept design features a cool twisty camera — but whether it’s real or not is another matter. The Lumia X concept phone boasts a high-definition AMOLED display screen, a Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor and an 8-megapixel camera. The software on the phone is Windows …

Your tax dollars at work. How better to describe Aesop for Children, a new iOS app (update: it’s also available for Android, though not through Google Play) offered free by the Library of Congress? I’m sure there’s a debate to be had on whether the government should be in the app-development business, especially when there are competing commercial apps like …

Nuance, a company that plays a part in some of the most well-known speech-recognition services on the market, has unveiled its own intra-app service, called Nina. With Nina’s help, iOS and Android developers can bring speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice biometrics to their individual applications. Nina works much in the same way as Siri, allowing users to provide voice commands …

HTC’s One X may be the most ridiculously powerful smart phone money can buy, but it looks like a successor is waiting in the wings. A handset codenamed the HTC PM63100, thought to be the HTC One X+, has been benchmarked using NenaMark2 — a graphics performance app for testing Android devices. And the big news? That monster 1.5GHz quad-core …

The 2013 SRT Viper will be one of two connected cars under Chrysler. Chrysler Two of Chrysler’s cars are morphing into smartphones, sort of — right down to the ability to access their own “app store.” The 2013 models of the Ram 1500 pickup and the SRT Viper sports car, expected to hit the market later this year, will come …

More than a year after the unlimited data plans were eliminated from AT&T and Verizon, subscribers are still grumbling, especially as these carriers further tweak their policies for those grandfathered into the plans. Is it time for the FCC to step in and investigate? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain why I think it’s unlikely the FCC will …