Ricky Gervais’s latest office isn’t a paper company in Slough… it’s much more nightmarish. PhoneShop, a new comedy with scripts edited by Gervais, takes place in the shiny-suited world of a mobile phone shop. The programme premiered last night on Channel 4 as part of its experimental comedy strand, and the Independent reports the channel …

Now playing: Watch this: Palm Pixi (Sprint) 4:28 The debut of the Palm Pre got the tech world and gadget enthusiasts excited about Palm once again. Long considered dead in the water, Palm’s innovative WebOS operating system buoyed it back into the spotlight, and the Pre was certainly a boon for the company as well as Sprint. While not a …

Augmented reality (AR), which overlays virtual information on to images of the real world on your phone‘s screen, has mostly been used for useful stuff such as finding the nearest Tube station. Thankfully, someone’s finally come along and used it for setting your house on fire. Firefighter 360 is an AR game for the iPhone that casts you as a …

Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner. Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the iPhone’s share rose from 12.9 …

With new features like turn-by-turn navigation and a self-correcting soft keyboard, Android 2.0 is enticing new customers who’ve never owned a smartphone. But is Android ready for business customers? With support for corporate e-mail and calendar accounts, Google Android isn’t just for consumers, but some IT managers have raised concerns over the operating system’s ActiveSync client, its encryption, and its …

Cisco Systems has bumped up its buyout offer to $3.41 billion for video conferencing company Tandberg. The network giant’s initial bid received a thumbs down from most of Tandberg’s shareholders, who felt the initial $3 billion offer undervalued the company. So far, more than 40 percent of Tandberg’s stockholders, which includes investment firm OppenheimerFunds and Norwegian government pension fund Folketrygdfondet, …

According to figures released by research firm Gartner last week, Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and Google’s Android OS have been sharing a feast. The main course? Windows Mobile. Gartner claims Microsoft’s mobile platform lost 28 per cent of its global smart phone market share between Q3 2008 and Q3 2009, dropping from accounting for 11 per cent of the world’s …

Arriva — the bus company that brought you the number 23 Erskine to Glasgow, among other favourites — is going to start accepting e-tickets flashed from the screen of your mobile phone. Arriva is calling it the m-ticket, and you have to install an app on your mobile phone to get started. Go to arrivabus.co.uk/m-ticket or text ‘mbus’ to 82500 …

“The Xperia X10 could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship for Sony Ericsson and the little green robot,” said our main — and, to be fair, only — girl, Flora, when she checked out Sony Ericsson’s Android-powered Xperia X10 phone earlier this month. And now, it seems we have a release schedule. According to Sony Ericsson’s official online store …

LG Shine II LG LG and AT&T announced Monday a successor to its LG Shine slider handset, the LG Shine II. It’s just as glossy and reflective as its predecessor, complete with a 2.2-inch mirror LCD. Features include a music player with a customizable equalizer, stereo Bluetooth, the typical messaging features, GPS, and a 2.0-megapixel camera. The Shine II will …