The handbags are out between two UK mobile networks ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Why? It all comes down to what’s on the Vodafone-sponsored McLaren cars. Jenson Button and Sergio Perez’s F1 jam jars are branded with Vodafone’s yet-to-launch ‘Ultrafast 4G’ network. According to Vodafone, this annoyed EE somewhat, who contacted the …

Slowly but surely, Next Issue is getting better. The service slings unlimited digital magazines to your tablet (or Windows 8-powered PC) for a flat monthly rate, and its catalog is closing in on 100 titles (quite a jump from the 40 or so it offered when it first launched about a year ago). Haven’t tried it yet? Now’s your chance …

It’s not every day that a new mobile operating system arrives, but Tuesday will be one of them as Telefonica begins selling the inexpensive ZTE Open with Mozilla’s Firefox OS in Spain. The move marks the commercial beginning of an effort by phone makers and network operators to use Mozilla’s open-source, browser-based operating system to reclaim power in the mobile …

Summer may have only just arrived here in Blighty, but here’s a good excuse to take a holiday — the price of using your mobile abroad will come down from tomorrow, in Europe, at least. New EU limits come into force tomorrow which make it cheaper to make and receive calls, send texts and browse the Internet while on the …

Three is going back to basics with its new pay as you go deals, complete with decent data prices for PAYG customers. Cutting through the confusion of the hundreds of different PAYG options, Three has stripped things back to one flat rate: 3p a minute for calls, 2p to send a text, and 1p per MB of Internet use. There’s …

Samsung’s next Note has been tipped to make its grand entrance in early September — a debut date that lines up with previous years’ Note launches. The third Note will reveal itself to a crowd of assembled mortals on 4 September, Android.gs reports, citing ‘a person close to the matter’ who has apparently (and anonymously) divulged the details of Samsung’s …

Hewlett-Packard plans to jump back into the smartphone business. Yam Su Yin, HP’s senior director for consumer PC and media tablets for Asia Pacific, told the Press Trust of India that the company will focus on all segments of the market, including tablets, notebooks, and all-in-one PCs, the Indian Express reported Sunday. Asked specifically about a smartphone, Yin said: “The …

Sony’s next smart phone will capture 20-megapixel snaps and will shoot video at a whopping 4K resolution, leaked software suggests. A system dump for a Sony phone with model number C6906 — believed to represent the rumoured Xperia i1 ‘Honami’ phone that’s been spied several times in recent weeks — has been pulled apart on the XDA Developers forum and …

Jason Cipriani/CNET You know you have a hidden inbox on Facebook, right? The “other” message folder is reserved for those people who message you and aren’t one of your Facebook friends. There’s a chance some messages from nonfriends will go to your main inbox (depending on your settings), but most of the time these messages make their way to your …

Codemasters’ Colin McRae Rally holds a special place in the pantheon of racing games, earning legions of fans for its realistic simulation of breakneck rally racing. If you’re among those fans, or you just like a good high-speed race against the clock, you’ll be glad to know Colin McRae Rally is now available for iOS. CMR is all about off-road …