Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Unlike Windows 7, Windows 8 will not come with Windows Media Center as part of the operating system. It’s now an add-on that can be purchased through the Add Features option in Windows 8. For a limited time, however, Microsoft is offering Windows Media Center to Windows 8 Pro customers for …

Google’s Nexus 7 line might soon have a new entrant. According to reports out of the U.K., some retailers are cutting the price of the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet. Android Authority, which earlier reported on the pricing, found a handful of retailers who have cut the price. One retailer, named Comet, is currently offering the tablet for 179.99 pounds, down …

It looked as though we’d have to wait until Google’s event on the 29 October to see the next Nexus phone unveiled, but Carphone Warehouse has jumped the gun, putting the LG Nexus 4 up for pre-order on its website. Those interested in the yet-to-be-made-official Android smart phone can throw down cash for the blower now, with Carphone Warehouse promising …

There’s no denying that Sprint Nextel is losing customers, but the company’s CEO says it’s all part of a natural, if painful, transition that he hopes will put Sprint in a much stronger position to take on rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse emphasized on the company’s conference call — and again in an interview with CNET …

The the slow pendulum swing toward the smart TV is about to hit WebOS. LG has teamed up with Gram, the organization established by HP to handle the WebOS project, to create a television that will be running on the open-source operating system, according to a new report from WebOS Nation. That blog reports that LG and Gram have been …

Sony just confirmed U.S. pricing and availability for its latest handset, the Xperia TL. You can expect the handset, official smartphone of the ‘Skyfall” James Bond film, to cost $99.99 on November 2. I’m not sure about you but when I think of a gadget worthy of 007’s tool kit, I imagine an sophisticated multimillion dollar device able to make …

EE is fighting to reassure disgruntled potential customers, following news that the UK’s first 4G service will come with caps on how much data you can use. Taking to Twitter, EE said, “We’ve had tons of comments over the last 24 hours, some would make our mothers blush.” In a colourful image attached to the tweet, the nascent network goes …

Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to deliver an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3. Available starting this morning as an over-the-air update, the handset will benefit from features such as Google Now, enhanced and expanded notifications, and Android Beam. Related stories As Worries Grow Around Russian Cyberattacks, Update Your Operating Systems Bill Gates’s top mistake? …

SwiftKey Looks like Android’s top-selling keyboard app, SwiftKey, has a sibling in the works, in the form of a new program called SwiftKey Flow. Officially announced today, SwiftKey Flow takes a page out of competitor Swype‘s book, by letting its users input text via continuous gliding gestures. What differentiates SwiftKey Flow, however, is the underlying natural-language technology that’s been migrated …

Do you dream of traveling to the stars? Unless you’ve got $20 million and change for a ticket to orbit, Vito Technology’s Solar Walk is about as close as you’re going to get. This jaw-dropping iOS app provides a wholly interactive 3D model of our solar system, one that’s had me hooked for days. It’s the kind of thing you …