Sprint Nextel today filed a request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it had stiffed New York out of $100 million in taxes. Sprint Sprint filed its request to a New York state court, arguing that its practices don’t violate New York law. In April, New York Attorney General Eric Schniederman filed his lawsuit against Sprint. …

Global mobile entertainment revenue will grow about 80 percent from $36 billion in 2011 to $65 billion by 2016, Juniper Research predicted yesterday. The research firm said the app-store centric ecosystem has “dramatically” increased consumer adoption of casual games and a flourishing of content for mobile devices. Hand in hand, tablet use is increasingly contributing to the mobile entertainment market. …

Now playing: Watch this: The LG Optimus 4X HD is a grand-slam winner 2:25 Recently, I haven’t been so impressed with a string of LG phones. Though a lot of them are good, solid handsets, none of them have wowed me. That is, until now. I mentioned the LG Optimus 4X HD back in February, when it was going by …

Siri’s the main selling point of the iPhone 4S — thanks to kooky quirky Zooey — but here in the UK it’s limited to just telling you how busy your day is and what the weather’s like outside. That’s all about to change with iOS 6, however, which puts loads more local information at the artificial assistant’s disposal. Thanks to …

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has vowed to deliver cheap Windows Phone devices, in a bid to “compete with Android aggressively”, the Verge reports. Elop’s stern words come in the wake of bad news for Nokia, with the Finnish company selling off its Vertu luxury smart phone brand and cutting 10,000 jobs. Speaking on a conference call, Elop pledged that Nokia …

It’s a solemn day at Nokia, as the Finnish phone flogger is selling fancy phone-brand Vertu, and plans on cutting 10,000 jobs. Vertu is being sold off to a private equity group EQT, reportedly for around €200m Euros (about £162m). The Church Cookham-based luxury brand builds phones from extremely expensive materials, and some even offer a concierge service. None of …

HTC has faced some serious setbacks in its patent battle with Apple. But that won’t stop the company from getting back up and continuing the fight. Speaking to reporters at the HTC 15th anniversary ceremony yesterday, Chairwoman Cher Wang said her company “will apply for patents in different fields, and we will also purchase different kinds of patents, such as …

Nokia will cut 10,000 positions by the end of 2013, the company announced today. The layoffs are part of a strategy on Nokia’s part to “rescale” its operation. In doing so, it plans to close facilities in Ulm, Germany and Burnaby, Canada; consolidate certain manufacturing operations; and streamline its IT, corporate, and support functions. “These planned reductions are a difficult …

The security around the design of the Samsung Galaxy S3 was so intense it became “tiring and frustrating”, the men in charge of creating the phone have revealed. Samsung has revealed some of the secrets of the S3’s production, including the intense security around the phone — which was actually three phones, as engineers built different prototypes to avoid leaked …

Apple will offer users a way to manage which applications have permission to access their contact information as part of a new privacy control panel that’s coming in iOS 6. The feature comes in tandem with a new privacy pop-up that asks whether users want to give a particular application access to contacts, as pointed out by MacRumors today. Apple …

Bad news if you fancy a cheap HTC phone: the company says it won’t take on the low-priced phone market, as it doesn’t want to harm its brand. “We don’t want to destroy our brand image,” says HTC head honcho Peter Chou in an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. Instead, HTC plans to continue to compete by selling …

Perhaps one silver lining to Nokia’s massive shakeup is an end to its poorly thought out “smartphone beta test” campaign for the company’s flagship Lumia 900 smartphone. You’ve probably seen one. Following the Lumia 900’s launch in April, the commercials were everywhere. Related stories Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Nokia’s Newest Phone …

If Nokia goes down, it won’t be CEO Stephen Elop’s fault. The company appears to be in a nosedive after it warned again that its financial performance would disappoint. In addition, the company said it would cut 10,000 positions, or nearly 10 percent of its work force, by the end of 2013, as it reshuffles its management team and showed …

Samsung is planning a social network to rival Facebook. The Korean giant is hoping to scoop up everyone with a Samsung Galaxy S3 or other Galaxy phone in their pocket and get their phones, tablets, cameras and TVs sharing with your friends, Facebook-style. The Korea Times reports the network will be based on the existing Samsung social wotsit Family Story, …

Amazon’s Kindle applications now support more titles, the company announced today. Users of Amazon’s Kindle for iOS, Kindle Cloud Reader, and Kindle for Android apps will find that they now support children’s books, comics, and graphic novels. According to Amazon, the children’s books feature fixed layouts and Kindle Text Pop-Up in supported titles, making it easier for readers to magnify …