Motorola is looking to sell its business for TV set-top boxes and network equipment for about $4.5 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday. The newspaper cites people familiar with the matter who say Motorola is in the early stages of finding a buyer for the business unit. Potential buyers include private-equity firms …

Last week, we received comments from Intel regarding an iPhone sync glitch with certain PCs that use a new Intel P55 chipset and Windows 7 64-bit. On Friday, motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology, a popular motherboard maker for PC hobbyists, issued a BIOS update that resolves the problem for some of these users who haven’t been able to sync their iPhones. …

T-Mobile Tap T-Mobile T-Mobile is making good on its promise to release its new phones from the fall CTIA show by November. Last week, the carrier put the Nokia 3711 on sale, and Wednesday it offers the T-Mobile Tap. The Tap is the first Huawei phone for T-Mobile. Its touch-screen design resembles a fair number of other T-Mobile phones, including …

Vodafone has entered the Crystal Maze with the 533 Crystal phone. It’s a pretty standard pay as you go handset, apart from the fact that it’s bedecked with 126 Swarovski crystals. At least it’s not pink. The 533 packs a 1.3-megapixel camera with 4x zoom, FM radio and Bluetooth. You know a phone is light on features when the specs …

The iPhone is the most popular and well-specified smart phone in the world. Like it or not, Apple knows how to make a product that’s simple to use and well-loved by consumers. And where Apple goes, everyone else will soon follow — as soon as the iPhone gained traction, Google announced its Android platform and Palm started work on the …

Sky is updating customers on its AdSmart targeted-advertising system. An email is doing the rounds that highlights the updated terms and conditions now in effect, ready for AdSmart’s launch on Sky Player in January. Sky combines the information it holds about you with data bought from third parties. This includes data such as your postcode for regionally targeted ads, and …

The BBC recently reduced the bit rate of BBC HD, leading to outraged complaints about the picture quality. The BBC has admitted that it has reduced the bit rate, but it also claims that its new, more efficient encoders make up the difference with increased efficiency. But in an interview with Points of View, Danielle Nagler, the head of BBC …

T-Mobile revealed more changes to its calling plans this week when it announced that it would phase out its MyFaves option. The news comes two weeks after the carrier’s introduction of new no-contract and unlimited service plans. In a statement sent to Fierce Wireless, the carrier said its new Even More Plus plans replace MyFaves by offering unlimited calling to …

In an interesting move, Samsung announced on Tuesday that it will launch its own mobile operating system called Bada in December, giving developers an open platform to create new apps for Samsung’s upcoming phones. The name Bada, which means ocean in Korean, was chosen to represent the “limitless variety” of potential apps that could be created on the platform and …

O2 iPhones can be unlocked from today — totally free if you’re on contract. The ability to put different SIM cards into your iPhone comes just in time for the iPhone’s arrival on Vodafone and Orange. Pay monthly customers can unlock their handsets at any time, completely gratis. Once unlocked, you can stick any SIM card in your iPhone and …

J’adore France and the French people. But I’m pretty disappointed with Musee du Louvre, a free but painfully brief virtual tour of the famous museum. The app consists of four main sections. In Louvre: The Visit, you get a video tour of seven well-known areas of the museum, including The Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa. However, each “tour” lasts …

Nokia doesn’t want us to fry our little fingers, so it’s offering a free exchange for 14 million mobile phone chargers that may pop open and zap you. On some chargers, the plastic covers could come loose, exposing its internal gubbins, and potentially shocking you if it’s plugged in and you touch it. Nokia says it doesn’t think anyone’s hair …

This post was going to be about Cal’s Plumbing Video Tutorial – Minor Toilet Rebuild, and make no mistake: It would have been exciting as hell. But, let’s face it, when it comes to do-it-yourself projects, basic toilet repair takes a backseat to driving a car with your iPhone while standing on the roof! That’s the feat these crazy dudes …

Now playing: Watch this: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS 6:04 For many smartphone manufacturers and carriers, the Apple iPhone is the great, white elephant in the room. Though they might not want to acknowledge it, the iPhone has certainly changed the game and for better or worse, it’s become the gold standard to which a lot of people compare other …

Samsung has announced bada, a new smart phone operating system. bada is Korean for ‘ocean’, which is all well and good but in English it still sounds like ‘bad’. The tabs on the bada Web site read ‘bada for business’ and ‘bada for developers’. Let’s hope bada isn’t bad for business or developers. Samsung previously pasted its own TouchWiz (dear …