Samsung has the perfect new year pick-me-up — it’ll push out the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for the powerful Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note early next year. But users of the Galaxy Ace and original Galaxy S may get a serious headache to learn their phone will miss out on the upgrade altogether. “The …

Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #204: The mighty Galaxy Nexus has landed! 37:58 There we were last week, minding our own business, when Verizon surprised us all by announcing it would release its Galaxy Nexus flagship phone the following day. Well, we hopped to it and managed to get a device early and publish the first review of the …

O2 is the least annoying phone company — and once again TalkTalk and Three are the worst. That’s according to new complaint figures from Ofcom. Despite reducing the number of complaints in the last six months, TalkTalk has now been the most moaned-about ISP over the whole year, right back to this time last year. The report is based on …

HTC has reportedly already engineered a workaround to sidestep a U.S. agency ruling that HTC infringed on one of Apple’s patents. The move became necessary after the International Trade Commission, a federal agency with the power to enforce bans on products shipping to the U.S., ruled yesterday that HTC infringed on Apple’s patent for data detection. The process allows a …

Apple scored a legal victory yesterday over HTC, albeit a limited one. The International Trade Commission, a federal agency with the power to enforce bans on products shipping to the U.S., ruled that HTC infringed upon one of Apple’s patents. While clearly a win for the company, it could have gone a lot better; Apple originally accused HTC of violating …

Given how cheap Research in Motion has gotten, every technology company worth its salt had to consider an acquisition. Amazon, apparently, was one of the interested parties, according to a report by Reuters. The company considered a potential merger with RIM, but never made a formal offer. RIM, meanwhile, reportedly rebuffed the overtures from Amazon and other parties because it …

The phenomenal growth rate of Google’s Android continues to increase, according to Android chief Andy Rubin. The Google vice president announced in on Google+ and Twitter this evening that “There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day,” clarifying later on Google+ that “for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don’t count re-sold devices), and …

Sprint Nextel has sued several cable providers over what it claims is the illegal use of its digital phone technology, further fraying an already strained relationship between the carrier and the cable industry. In separate lawsuits filed yesterday, Sprint alleged that Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, and the Washington Post’s Cable One all infringed on 12 patents related to …

Western Digital announced several updates to the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub streaming-media boxes today, including a smartphone app for both iOS and Android, plus a new slate of streaming services, including Vudu, Flixster, SnagFilms, XOS College Sports, SEC Digital NEtwork, Comedy Time, and Watch Mojo. While a lot of those services lack a broad appeal, the …

Xbox fans with a penchant for ABC’s TV programs have received an early Christmas present: iView is now available on their console of choice. The free iView app, available from today, is joined by a Dailymotion app, and both have been customised to work with the Kinect’s voice-command feature. These new catch-up TV and video apps will now share virtual …