It looks like everyone’s favourite Taiwanese mobile maker HTC could be lining up its own music streaming service for preloading as an app on future HTC phones. Mashable Business is reporting that Beats, the headphone maker that’s majority owned by HTC, whose logo brands the rump of many an HTC device, is buying US music …

Sky has unveiled Now TV, a new pay as you go online TV service. Hitting your phone, tablet and computer this year with movies on-demand, Now TV is a separate brand to Sky itself and a direct rival to Lovefilm and Netflix. Now TV is the official name for the online service promised by Sky earlier in the year, which …

Foxtel has announced that its London Olympics coverage will be available at no extra charge to anyone with a Foxtel sports subscription. From 27 July, when the Olympics begin, and running for just over two weeks, Foxtel will broadcast the Games across eight dedicated channels. According to Foxtel, this will enable it to broadcast live and in full every gold …

Sony has turned to indie darling Wes Anderson, director of The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr Fox to flog its new Xperia phones. The Sony Xperia S and its smart phone siblings are made of imagination, apparently. The ad is inspired by childrens’ vision of a dream phone and features robots, rainbow monkeys and …

Dying for a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich on your Samsung Galaxy S2? As you wait for your phone to update to the latest version of Android, Samsung has prepared a handy guide to all things ICS. Cool Smart Phone has compiled Samung’s Ice Cream Sandwich guide into a handy PDF. It’s a bit dry, but does contain some useful …

The customer, someone 9to5 Mac calls a “trusted tipster,” told the tech Web site that he reached out to Cook after a series of customer support calls to both AT&T and Apple failed to resolve his issue. The man in question had recently been transferred to Canada for work and decided to try and use his iPhone 3GS (now off-contract, …

A nationwide outage has left Virgin Mobile customers in the U.S. without text or data services. The company confirmed the disruption in a tweet this afternoon and said that engineers were working on the issue but did not give any indication what caused the outage or when it is expected to be resolved. We’re currently experiencing a national data & …

It’s the sizzling tech launch of the season, but it appears the new iPad is too hot to handle for some people, with complaints emerging of the device overheating. The hot potato on Apple’s support forums is that the iPad — in a fair number of instances — is prone to getting too hot in the lower-left corner, when held …

Verizon Wireless could be close to introducing its first shared data plans–that is, if a new screen grab passed to PhoneArena proves to be authentic. Expected to arrive at some point around the middle of the year, Verizon would presumably give customers the option to share a pool of data much in the way that families can share voice minutes …

Today is D-day for Samsung Galaxy S2 users who bought their devices SIM-free, because Samsung is finally firing out the official update from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich. If you paid your subs to a mobile operator to get your hands on the S2’s shiny slice of Droidy goodness, however, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. Network …