As part of the celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, Four Corners, the corporation has released a tablet app featuring classic reports and behind-the-scenes videos. The free app is currently only available for Apple’s iPad. It contains 70 reports from the TV show, covering topics ranging from Vietnam and …

Apple TV could be closer than we thought. The Cupertino company is discussing its future vision for TV with media execs at several large companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. And the big news? It looks like it will have Siri for voice recognition, as well as respond to motion controls. Minority Report-style viewing could be just months away… Senior …

The BBC Red Button is coming to TiVo. Bonus news and sport content can be yours at the touch of a button on your Virgin Media TiVo box some time next year. The BBC Sport app and BBC News app will offer interactive extras from the 2012 Olympics in London, Wimbledon, Euro 2012 and the BBC’s truncated line-up of Formula …

Telstra and Network Ten have signed a deal for the US drama Homeland to debut on the Telstra T-Box before airing on free-to-air television. The 200,000 T-Box subscribers will be allowed to stream the premiere episode of the series, starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, for free, and in advance of its first showing on Ten. How far in advance …

It takes a special kind of alchemy to make a great tablet. Even mediocre tablets require a certain finesse of software and aesthetic. The screen, the right Android OS, the placement of the buttons, the cameras, and the connections all have to come together in the right way, and at the right price. Sometimes, though, things go terribly wrong. You …

Research in Motion’s two CEOs have to go. The company has lost investor–and increasingly customer–confidence over the last year. Its latest, greatest savior OS is behind schedule. The PlayBook is a disaster. And RIM could be circling the porcelain rim if it isn’t careful. Nevertheless, RIM carries on with its current management. Co-CEOs James Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are taking …

Google has long offered Android developers a number of resources for creating quality applications and games. Indeed, whether it’s the oft-updated platform version chart or a member of the team dropping by the developer blog to share some code or best practices, there’s plenty of official information available. If that wasn’t enough, today brings another valuable set of tools for …

BlackBerry maker RIM has been forced to delay its next smart phones, as company profits plunge, our sister site CNET News reports. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has confirmed that smart phones running BB10, the latest version of the BlackBerry operating system, won’t be arriving until late next year, giving Android, Apple and Windows Phone devices even more time in the …

The hills are alive with the sound of mobiles. The latest clue to the launch of the hotly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 has come from the land of cuckoo clocks and chocolate, with a Swiss phone network revealing the Windows Phone will arrive in Europe in February. Swisscom revealed the date in a tweet to a customer asking after the …

Verizon Wireless is scooping up more wireless spectrum from another cable provider. On Friday, Cox Communications said it will sell Verizon Wireless its 20MHz slice of wireless spectrum for $315 million. As part of the deal, Verizon and Cox will resell each others residential and commercial services. The deal is similar in scope to one Verizon announced a couple of …

Just a few minutes ago, Google tweeted that the Samsung Nexus S, Gingerbread’s debut device, would begin receiving the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS update on a global scale as soon as today. The over-the-air update applies to Nexus S phones that use the GSM/UMTS cellular technology. In the U.S., that means that the AT&T and T-Mobile versions are …

The trickiest thing about technology is that six months after you buy the hottest gadget, another product is introduced that makes your once-cutting-edge device look like yesterday’s news. And in the smartphone world, it seems like that cycle of hot-to-not is rapidly increasing. So what’s a cell phone aficionado to do? The perfect smartphone Dear Maggie, I need your help. …

Well, well, looks like if you really want Google Wallet on your shiny new Verizon Galaxy Nexus it’s yours for the taking. This is despite Verizon and the Isis group from saying you can’t. Images posted by tech site BGR allegedly show the Google Wallet software up and running on Samsung’s latest superphone. If you recall, rumor has it that …

Samsung Electronics is hoping to kill Apple in the courtroom with a smile. Samsung tacked on four new patents in fresh complaints brought against Apple in a German court, according to legal blog FOSS Patents. One of the patents involves a method of entering an emoticon on the screen. The patents were brought up amid deliberations in two separate trials …

Because of Apple’s partnership with search comparison engine Wolfram Alpha, Siri now has the ability to search the entire Best Buy catalog, a feature added to Wolfram Alpha today. Best Buy has public APIs that have allowed Wolfram Alpha to leverage the data from more than 35,000 products that Best Buy sells. Because Wolfram Alpha was built on a natural-language …