HTC and Optus have teamed up again to launch a new Android smartphone in Australia, with Optus ranging the HTC Rhyme as an exclusive from 1 November. (Credit: HTC) Sold in a pack with a range of accessories, the Rhyme will be available for $0 on an AU$59 per month plan over 24 months. This …

Ebooks have proved once and for all that the most important aspect of books is the content. Few of us who have made the switch to digital reading would ever go back to dead-tree physical books, which is great news for the environment. But unlike physical books (which, we have to admit, do look rather good on a shelf), ebooks …

Disgruntled Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless workers and members of the labor union Communications Workers of America will be joining the “Occupy Wall Street” protest Friday in protest of “Verizon’s corporate greed.” In a press release issued Thursday afternoon, the CWA said that about 1,000 Verizon workers will meet at Verizon’s headquarters in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street at 4 …

We have a theory that some men may have bought an iPhone 4S for a bit of female companionship. Why not? She’s intelligent, gives as good as she gets and has a sense of humour. And they’ll never have to worry about her running off with the milkman — but due to a security issue unearthed by Macworld, she might …

The war of words continues. After Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer slammed Android as being for computer scientists, Android’s Andy Rubin has a choice word or two about Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled virtual assistant. “I don’t believe your phone should be an assistant,” Rubin said in an interview, reports AllThingsD. “Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the …

Virgin Mobile has today launched new bring-your-own (BYO) phone plans, with pricing an even AU$10 per month cheaper than the same plan with a subsidised phone. New BYO plan options exist across Virgin’s three pricing tiers: Big plans, Fair Go plans and its unlimited Topless cap. The AU$10 discount brings the cheapest plan price down to AU$19 per month, which …

When Apple unveiled AirPrint, it did more than simply announce a new driver. It made the iPad and iPhone viable standalone business devices on which you could edit, create and print out hard copies of your work… so long as you’d bought from HP. AirPrint is still — officially — only compatible with recent HP printers, but with a bit …

What I’m about to attempt–comparing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with Apple iOS 5–is a little like tiptoeing through a minefield. Most of you won’t be happy and somebody could get hurt. (Read: me.) Yet, this comparison must be done. For one thing, Google and Apple have both recently unveiled huge changes that respectively make their mobile operating systems far …

Nokia’s new phone is turning out to be almost as badly kept a secret as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the Motorola Droid Razr. More info on the Nokia 800 has leaked onto the internet, this time in the shape of some official press shots, reports Pocketnow. The shots provide the best look yet at the smart phone, while also …

Good news for Nokia: the Finnish phone company has reversed this year’s catastrophic losses. Nokia boss Stephen Elop also confirmed that the hotly anticipated Nokia Windows Phone will hit shops this year — but only in selected countries. Nokia made a profit on mobile phone sales this quarter. The slim profit of 2 per cent is good news despite an …

Research in Motion’s new BBX operating system isn’t even out yet, and it’s already facing a bit of legal heat. A small Albuquerque, N.M.-based software provider, Basis International, claims “BBx” is the name of a software platform that it has already trademarked. RIM unveiled the BBX platform–which combines elements of its older BlackBerry operating system with its next-generation QNX software–at …

Today, Sprint introduced the Motorola Admiral, the newest addition to its Direct Connect portfolio. Joining the previously announced Kyocera DuraMax, the Admiral supports Sprint’s next-gen Direct Connect push-to-talk service, which operates on the carrier’s 3G CDMA network instead of Nextel’s iDEN network. The advantage of the new service is faster data speeds, and Sprint plans tophase out iDEN in 2013. …

AT&T posted a decline in its third-quarter profit today, although results largely fell in line with expectations and the company’s wireless-customer growth remained solid. The Dallas telecommunications titan reported a quarterly profit of $3.6 billion, or 61 cents a share, down significantly from a year-earlier profit of $12.3 billion, or $2.07 a share, when the company’s results benefited from a …

Sick of all the extra apps clogging up your Android phone? Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich smart phone software will let you kill any app, including the added extras slapped on there by the manufacturer and your phone network. That’s good news, as it means unwanted apps will stop eating up your phone’s processing power, or using your data. You …

With the iPhone picking up steam as a gaming platform, one of the biggest announcements for gamers was that the iPhone 4S’ graphics would be seven times faster than its predecessor’s. Even though no developers have released a game optimized for the device so far (Infinity Blade II is set to launch December 1), I decided to put some of …