Each year, 80 percent of Americans use gift cards, with 3 billion given in 2011. Now Giftly aims to take gift cards mobile by encouraging people to give gifts and experiences through an iOS app. Giftly The app, launched yesterday, allows individuals to give their friends and family virtual gift cards, known as “Giftlys,” via …

HTC plans to eschew the “quiet” part of its well-worn tagline, “Quietly Brilliant,” as it looks to mount a comeback in the smartphone business. Jason MacKenzie, head of sales and marketing for HTC. HTC The Taiwanese company plans to go bolder with its messaging to consumers and the media, relying less on joint marketing campaigns with the carriers and standing …

Now playing: Watch this: The Lumia 920, Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 device 2:38 Nokia’s recently unveiled flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920, will be launching in November, new reports claim. Earlier today, Reuters reported, citing unnamed European carrier sources, that Nokia plans to launch its Lumia 920 in November. Those sources did not provide Reuters with an exact date. However, …

A smattering of hardware specs for the rumored HTC One X+ arrived online courtesy of an anonymous XDA developer known as Football4PDA. According to his unconfirmed tweet, the faster and more powerful One X will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with HTC Sense 4.5 and offer a 1.6GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Like the original model, the One X+ should …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry 10 in action 1:45 RIM may be months away from its first BlackBerry 10 OS offering, but the ailing BlackBerry-maker wants you to know that it’s committed to a thriving app market at launch. In fact, Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president of developer relations and ecosystem development, told CNET that RIM intends to launch its …

Nokia has cut the price of its existing line of Windows Phone-based Lumias to prop up sales ahead of the arrival of its two new Windows Phone 8 (WP8) phones, the Reuters news agency is reporting. The once Mighty Finn took the wraps off the WP8-based Lumia 920 and 820 at a press event held in New York this week. …

When it comes to jaw-droppingly beautiful role-playing games steeped in medieval hack-and-slash action, Infinity Blade II is pretty much the gold standard. Gameloft’s Wild Blood may not set a new standard, but it definitely deserves a place in the same pantheon of groundbreaking iOS games. Here be dragons. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET The story goes like this: in King Arthur’s …

Look out Sky Go — Virgin Media has announced its Virgin TV Anywhere streaming application. The Branson-beard-bearing company is launching a TV streaming service for your laptop, PC, iPad, iPhone and other devices over Wi-Fi. It’s an evolution of the Virgin Media Player and will be officially launched in Autumn 2012. Virgin hopes to leave Sky and its Sky Go …

iPlayer is coming to your Sky+ box, as well as catch-up TV and an undelete option. So no more earbashings after ‘accidentally’ wiping The Only Way is Essex.  Undelete retrieves something you’ve recorded and then deleted. So if you accidentally erase an episode of your favourite show, you can get it back without any fuss. Or if you’ve erased something …

In a small room away from the main convention center at the CEDIA Expo, LG showed off its upcoming 84-inch 4K LCD, the LG 84LM9600. I got a close-up look at the new ultraresolution panel, got a lot of questions answered, and got a rough idea what we can expect when it starts shipping next month. Curious? I was too. …