Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #210: We kinda heart the Samsung Galaxy Note 28:59 It’s Valentine’s Day, which means it’s time to share a little love. There’s some of that for the top two phones we reviewed this past week: the keyboard-crazy Motorola Droid 4 for Verizon and AT&T’s gigantic Samsung Galaxy Note. But …

LightSquared suffered a possibly fatal blow today when the FCC said it would indefinitely suspend the company’s effort to build a national wireless broadband network using satellite spectrum. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a Department of Commerce agency tasked with overseeing military and government spectrum use, determined that LightSquared’s interference with other devices, including GPS devices, was unavoidable. “Based …

Don’t you wish you could have it all? Sadly, sometimes we can’t, especially when it comes to smartphones. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help a reader decide between two Motorola Droid smartphones. The new Droid 4, which comes with a full-QWERTY keyboard or the Droid Razr Maxx, a flashy new touch-screen device with the longest battery life of …

Now playing: Watch this: How to date Siri 2:14 Today is Valentine’s day, and all over the world couples are whispering sweet nothings to each other over a glass of wine before retreating to their homes for a wild night of chess and polite conversation. If you don’t have a partner to snuggle but you do own an iPhone 4S, …

Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, has demonstrated a version that handles live streaming. According to an interview with TechCrunch, Cohen has spent the last three years figuring out a way for live streaming to work via the peer-to-peer protocol. Although current streaming technologies are considerably cheaper than either satellite or terrestrial TV broadcasting, they …

Update: Samsung has been in touch to tell us that the spring release date it previously told us is inaccurate. In fact we can expect to see its OLED TV in the second half of the year, with no more specific date available at the moment. Original story follows. Samsung’s OLED TV, which blew our tiny minds when we saw …

The future of over-the-air TV is in the cloud. Or at least that’s what Aereo’s banking on. Startup company Aereo held a press conference in New York this morning to announce its new service, which allows subscribers to access live and recorded over-the-air TV on their iPad/iPhone for $12 a month. The service is limited to New York City at …

Time Warner Cable, which last year unveiled its first iPad app, has just launched a beta version of the software for computer streaming. The new app lets cable (and data) subscribers stream live TV to their Mac or Windows PC while in the home. The app’s features include “Live TV” of a limited number of channels, a seven-day program guide, …

A Samsung exec has said the company isn’t scared by rumours that Apple is working on a TV set. “We’ve not seen what they’ve done, but what we can see is that they don’t have 10,000 people in R&D in the vision category,” Samsung’s AV product manager Chris Moseley told Pocket-lint. Moseley went on to get technical, saying, “They don’t …

Yesterday Samsung had told me its 55-inch OLED TV would be arriving in the UK this spring, but the company has since been in touch to say I was given an incorrect date — in fact, Samsung’s OLED telly will be arriving in the second half of the year. There’s currently no more information regarding dates and pricing, so Samsung’s …