During the weekend, the overlords at Apple’s app headquarters approved Quickflix’s new streaming video app, Quickflix WatchNow, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new app allows subscribers of Quickflix’s streaming video services to watch available TV series and movies, streamed directly to their iOS device. The catalogue includes slightly older movies from Warner Brothers, …

Subscribers to Foxtel on Xbox 360 can now control the service via voice and gesture controls, in addition to using their Xbox controller. To use the new feature, users will have to agree to update their software, while a Microsoft Kinect device is required to do all the grunt work behind the voice recognition and recognising gestures. This CNET Australia …

Sir David Attenborough has turned to plants for his new 3D documentary series, Kingdom of Plants 3D, and as part of his promotional tour he and executive producer Anthony Geffen spoke with CNET UK and a couple of other journalists at the place it was filmed — Kew Gardens. They spoke about how it would be “absolute lunacy” to shoot …

In giving the thumbs-up to Google’s acquisition of Motorola, regulators in China stipulated that Google must make Android free and open for five years, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed with CNET today. The stipulation would seem to be designed to keep Google from denying Motorola’s handset competitors access to the mobile operating system, or from giving Motorola …

Chinese antitrust and competition regulators have cleared Google’s move to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, completing the worldwide regulatory review process. A Google representative confirmed that the Chinese government had given the merger the green light. The deal is set to close early in this coming week. The deal had to be approved by a series of regulators around …

Broadband data caps were a hot topic this week as Comcast and Verizon Wireless separately talked up upcoming changes to their policies. So how will these data cap tweaks affect consumers? In short, Comcast’s move, which increases its existing cap from 250GB to 300GB and now imposes an overage fee for those who exceed the cap, is likely a positive …

The Samsung Galaxy S Advance — little brother to the Galaxy S2 — will be out in the UK on 30 April, Samsung has confirmed. Hey, that’s Monday! Where does the time go…? The S Advance is a beefed-up version of 2010’s splendid Galaxy S, and as you’d expect, specs-wise it’s somewhere in-between the Galaxy S and Galaxy S2. Expect …

Everyone who uses Instagram, EyeEm, or other photo-sharing apps knows how easy it can be to add effects to photos and make them look even better than the original. But there’s another group of apps at the iTunes App Store that add something more to your images, taking a mostly mundane photo and turning it into a work of art. …

Sprint today is shouting its unlimited iPhone 4S data plan from the rooftops, hoping to attract Verizon customers who are hopping mad at losing their unlimited data. Starting today, you can trade in your current non-Sprint iPhone for the carrier’s own model, and get at least $100 off when you sign a new two-year contract. Of course, the limited-time offer …

Otterbox has built a booming business out of its ultraprotective iPhone cases but today has a lot more competition — and it’s only getting fiercer. Case in point: iSkin’s just-announced Fuze case, which also comes in a special-edition model, the Fuze SE. What’s nice about these is that they offer solid protection in a relatively low-profile case. The standard Fuze …