Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry 10 in action 1:45 With all the news about Microsoft Surface and Apple’s iOS 6, you may have completely forgotten about RIM. Once it was the reigning mobile-device king, now its BlackBerry 10 software is the ailing company’s last hope for survival. I sat down with RIM Principle Architect Gary …

After years of watching and waiting, Microsoft has entered the tablet wars with the Surface tablets — a pair of iPad-bothering 10.6-inch slates that are powered by Windows 8. Surface RT and Surface Pro The Surface tablets come in two versions, both of which have 10.6-inch displays and built-in kickstands. There’s the Surface RT, which measures 9.3mm thick, weighs 676g, …

Check out your nearby purchased Google Offers from the native Google Offers app. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti/CNET Google Offers, at its core, is not really much different from any deal site (Groupon, Living Social). Users sign up for daily email offers from local businesses willing to give potential customers heavy discounts to become patrons of their establishments. The only real …

Verizon Wireless announced its new share everything plans last week, and subscribers are still confused and trying to figure out what the new plans will mean for them. In the last edition of Ask Maggie, I tried to answer some of the most commonly asked questions regarding the plan. And now in this edition, I answer some specific questions from …

Count LG among those companies that aren’t too worried about Surface. But that appears to be because it doesn’t plan to focus its efforts on tablets. Speaking to Bloomberg in an interview published today, LG spokesman Ken Hong said that his company has “decided to put all new tablet development on the back burner for the time being.” In its …

HTC is changing the way it makes the HTC One X to sort out the phone’s Wi-Fi issues. With many users complaining of signal problems, HTC has apologised, although it still claims the problem is an isolated issue. Phone fans who’ve bought the quad-core HTC flagship phone have noticed that Wi-Fi signal isn’t as good as it could be until …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is safe for work — in fact it’s SAFE. But does that mean other Android phones are unsafe? The S3 is the first phone to be certified SAFE, or ‘Samsung Approved For Enterprise’. The Korean company reckons this new scheme will make its phones and tablets secure to keep your work emails, files and other data …

Samsung’s brand-new boss says the South Korean company needs to focus on improving its software, the Wall Street Journal reports. In his inaugural speech, Kwon Oh-hyun said, “A particular focus must be given to serving new customer experience and value.” To be specific, the Galaxy S3 maker will be “strengthening soft capabilities in software, user experience, design and solutions”. He’s …

The number of tablet users is on the rise, according to a report from the Online Publishers Association released today. By 2013, nearly half of the United States’ Internet users will own tablets, the study estimates, based on a survey examining demographics and consumer behavior and attitude toward advertising. That means more than 117 million people will own slates in …

Verizon continues to define speed when it comes to home Internet service. The carrier already has the further reach when it comes to super-fast 4G LTE service on the wireless end, and is pressing its advantage on the fixed-line side with Fios and a new top-tier 300-megabit-per-second service. In addition, it is boosting nearly all of its other speed tiers. …