More than 20,000 Brits had registered for Barclays’ Pingit mobile money transfer service just two days after it launched, thisismoney.co.uk is reporting. Last week Barclays unboxed Pingit — the service that allows mobile users with a Barclays current account to ping people up to £300 a day via the Pingit app on their smart phone. …

If you’ve been dreaming of Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones, the 2012 Mobile World Congress promises to be quite the party. Early this morning, ZTE announced that it would reveal two Android 4.0 devices at the annual wireless trade show, which begins February 27 in Barcelona. On the outside, the candy bar designs don’t appear to be particularly noteworthy, but the …

The latest in the ongoing patent wars: Apple has called on EU anti-trust regulators to settle a patent dispute between the Cupertino company and Motorola. It’s the equivalent of warring brothers calling on their parents to sort out a long-running argument. Apple is fighting claims that it infringed Motorola’s mobile patents. This is just the latest instalment in the saga that is …

The iPad 3 will have an 8-megapixel camera. That’s the latest rumour anyway, according to Next Media. The site also claims to have pictures of the device, showing off the larger camera hole. But I’m skeptical. While there are bound to be plenty of rumours and purported leaks ahead of a new Apple launch, we sort the wheat from the …

ZTE’s Android efforts will continue with the ZTE Mimosa X, a mid-range Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone that we can expect to see in the second quarter of 2012…somewhere. ZTE hasn’t announced a market just yet, but this is a phone we should hear more about at Mobile World Congress next week. The Mimosa X will have a 4.3-inch …

Telstra today announced a major update to the T-Box set-top box, expanding the current functionality of the unit to include media playback from external storage devices over Wi-Fi and USB. Telstra T-Box (Credit: Telstra) Dubbed My Media, the new service will be installed when T-Box customers next update the firmware on their set-top boxes. My Media will be included as …

Samsung is focusing on OLED TVs, spinning off its LCD division as a new corporation on 1 April, Bloomberg reports, with the Samsung board approving the plan. Though it still needs shareholder approval, according to the BBC. The first of April is the same day Sony gets a new boss — let’s hope it’s not all some elaborate April Fool’s …

Apple’s streaming-video box could get a lot better with a few improvements. The Apple TV could be even better with voice control, cross-platform search and true apps. (Credit: Apple) Rumours were abuzz earlier this week about a possible refresh of the Apple TV set-top box, as retailers are running out of existing stock. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if there’s …

The Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition won’t be getting Ice Cream Sandwich until July at the earliest, while the Razr smart phone will be bereft of the latest version of Android until some time between April and June. Motorola updated its Android 4.0 update estimates in a post on its official forum, with a great big table …

It’s that time of year again when Apple releases a new iPad, so what should you do with your old one? And should you get the Wi-Fi only version or one with 3G/4G access? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help a reader who is jonesing for the upcoming iPad 3 figure out what to do with his iPad …

Outside of CNET’s office, using the GPS Test app, I picked up several satellites, albeit at low connection speeds. On the opposite side of San Francisco, I had trouble accessing more that three satellites a few days earlier. Josh Miller/CNET The Asus Transformer Prime is currently the highest-quality Android tablet on the market. It rivals and sometimes surpasses the the …

Samsung is the latest electronics-maker to give its SD and microSD cards a thicker skin. Today Samsung announced that its newest two lines of products are waterproof, shockproof, and magnetproof. Beyond that, they’re “guaranteed to survive up to 24 hours in water, withstand the force of a 1.6 ton vehicle (3,200 pounds), and resist up to 10,000 gauss,” which is …

The LG Fantasy, also known as the LG Miracle, has popped up in an online video ahead of its official launch. Mobilissimo.ro secured footage (below) and pics (above!) of the upcoming 4-inch smart phone, which shows LG’s new, ambiguously named toy swooping through the Windows Phone interface with acrobatic ease. The device looks to sport a 5-megapixel camera and a …

I’m a writer, in the most literal sense of the word. I may use electronic inputs so often, my fingers ache at the end of a day spent swiping and typing, but when I bolt off to a meeting, it’s with note paper and trusty Bic in hand. I have a Google calendar, but rely on the to-do list at …

Fancy a Jelly Bean? Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, that is. The next generation of Android is rumoured to arrive in the second half of this year — and could run Windows 8 too. You read that right: details of the flavourful next generation of Android, Google’s operating system for phones, tablets and laptops, are already starting to emerge and they …