Research In Motion announced today the resignation of its chief legal officer, the second high-level departure from the struggling phone maker in the past week. Karima Bawa is leaving the handset maker after 12 years, RIM said. The company said it’s known of Bawa’s departure for some time and has already begun searching for a …

Telstra and HTC will again join forces for an exclusive smartphone launch, with the 4G-ready One XL handset to launch in Australia on 5 June. A frame taken from Telstra’s One XL demo video on YouTube. (Screenshot by CBSi) Prices for this latest Telstra handset start at AU$65 per month, including an AU$6 handset repayment on an AU$59 Freedom Connect …

Samsung is giving away tickets to the Olympics with its Galaxy S3 smart phone, Android Central reports. If you’re among the first 50 people to pre-order the handset at London’s Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, you’ll be handed tickets to this summer’s sweaty sport-fest along with your phone. If you pre-order, you can pick up your S3 on 29 May …

Yes, you read that right — two huge tablets are in the offing, and they measure no fewer than 22 and 80 inches, respectively. ViewSonic sent out a teaser for its series of “Touch and Connect” prototypes being shown off at Computex in Taipei, one of which is a 22-inch “smart business tablet monitor”. And from the invite, it looks …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Facebook could be making a phone. The old rumours have resurfaced, but this time it seems Mark Zuckerberg and co are actively recruiting Apple engineers with iPhone experience — and Facebook’s need to grab hold of the mobile market has never been more pressing. The world-conquering social network is headhunting Apple engineers …

With just days to go until Samsung’s Galaxy S3 goes on sale, the Korean company has released pictures of its PIN pop-up shop, where you’ll be able to get hands-on with the device. The pop-ups will be popping up all over London. The first two locations are the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush (not the one in Stratford, where …

Are you ready for the next transformation? That’s the question posed by Asus, in a teaser video for the successor to the Asus Transformer Prime — a new Android tablet with added cloud gubbins. The teaser seems to promise a new entry to the Transformer line alongside the Transformer Pad TF300 and Transformer Pad Infinity 700, tablets that become laptops …

What you can see up above are details for Dell’s first Windows 8 tablet, the Dell Latitude 10. And as you can see, it’s a full spec sheet that’s leaked, Neowin reports, meaning there’s not much we don’t know about the tablet. The screen is a 10.1-inch 1,366×768-pixel multi-touch effort with an optional stylus. There’s a dual-core Atom processor, Intel …

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a data-only service for your smartphone? Wireless operators are pushing their new data services in a big way. They want everyone and their brother to upgrade to smartphones. And the reason is simple. Carriers can make more money if customers add more services to bills. But what if you just want data …

LG has shown off a new 5-inch display with an amazing 1,080p resolution that will soon be finding its way into the Korean company’s new smart phones. Not only that, but this new screen manages to easily beat the pixel density offered by the iPhone 4S‘s retina display, potentially making it even sharper. The iPhone 4S (and iPhone 4 before …

The bad times continue in the tech industry. Struggling BlackBerry-maker RIM could be about to cut up to 6,000 jobs, Reuters reports. Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail puts the number at 2,000 jobs, but a source close to RIM told Reuters the higher figure. The cuts could affect the legal, marketing, sales, operations, and human resources divisions worldwide. The …

This is the Oppo Finder, the world’s thinnest smart phone. It measures just 6.65mm thick, pipping the Huawei Ascend P1S to the title by 0.03mm. As a comparison, the iPhone 4S is 9.3mm thin. Despite its wafer proportions, it packs some pretty impressive specs. Inside is a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB storage. The screen is a …

Initially, YP’s new Gas Guru app was a mystery to me. With nearly all of the features found in its original YP app, why would the company go through the trouble of building a seemingly redundant app? The answer, YP told me, was to better capture an audience through a specific purpose-based app. Sure, much of the gas station location …

Rumours are gathering pace that Google is about to unveil its first Nexus tablet. The 7-inch tablet is set to be built by Asus to show off Jelly Bean, the next version of Android — and it could be with us as soon as next month. The Asus 7-inch Google Nexus slate is reported to be powered by an Nvidia …

Streaming video, with its instant access and wide selection, has exploded over the past few years. Whether it’s Netflix, which despite some recent fumbles still remains hugely popular, or other services like Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, and so on, more services and content have become available. Even better, the number of devices capable of streaming that content continues …