More than 20,000 Brits had registered for Barclays’ Pingit mobile money transfer service just two days after it launched, thisismoney.co.uk is reporting. Last week Barclays unboxed Pingit — the service that allows mobile users with a Barclays current account to ping people up to £300 a day via the Pingit app on their smart phone. …

If you’ve been dreaming of Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones, the 2012 Mobile World Congress promises to be quite the party. Early this morning, ZTE announced that it would reveal two Android 4.0 devices at the annual wireless trade show, which begins February 27 in Barcelona. On the outside, the candy bar designs don’t appear to be particularly noteworthy, but the …

The latest in the ongoing patent wars: Apple has called on EU anti-trust regulators to settle a patent dispute between the Cupertino company and Motorola. It’s the equivalent of warring brothers calling on their parents to sort out a long-running argument. Apple is fighting claims that it infringed Motorola’s mobile patents. This is just the latest instalment in the saga that is …

The iPad 3 will have an 8-megapixel camera. That’s the latest rumour anyway, according to Next Media. The site also claims to have pictures of the device, showing off the larger camera hole. But I’m skeptical. While there are bound to be plenty of rumours and purported leaks ahead of a new Apple launch, we sort the wheat from the …

ZTE’s Android efforts will continue with the ZTE Mimosa X, a mid-range Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone that we can expect to see in the second quarter of 2012…somewhere. ZTE hasn’t announced a market just yet, but this is a phone we should hear more about at Mobile World Congress next week. The Mimosa X will have a 4.3-inch …

Telstra today announced a major update to the T-Box set-top box, expanding the current functionality of the unit to include media playback from external storage devices over Wi-Fi and USB. Telstra T-Box (Credit: Telstra) Dubbed My Media, the new service will be installed when T-Box customers next update the firmware on their set-top boxes. My Media will be included as …

Samsung is focusing on OLED TVs, spinning off its LCD division as a new corporation on 1 April, Bloomberg reports, with the Samsung board approving the plan. Though it still needs shareholder approval, according to the BBC. The first of April is the same day Sony gets a new boss — let’s hope it’s not all some elaborate April Fool’s …

Apple’s streaming-video box could get a lot better with a few improvements. The Apple TV could be even better with voice control, cross-platform search and true apps. (Credit: Apple) Rumours were abuzz earlier this week about a possible refresh of the Apple TV set-top box, as retailers are running out of existing stock. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if there’s …

The Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition won’t be getting Ice Cream Sandwich until July at the earliest, while the Razr smart phone will be bereft of the latest version of Android until some time between April and June. Motorola updated its Android 4.0 update estimates in a post on its official forum, with a great big table …

It’s that time of year again when Apple releases a new iPad, so what should you do with your old one? And should you get the Wi-Fi only version or one with 3G/4G access? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help a reader who is jonesing for the upcoming iPad 3 figure out what to do with his iPad …