Google has come to its senses with its Gmail app for Android. A June Gmail overhaul dropped the delete button by default from the e-mail software, a move judged to be silly by me and by 88 percent of the CNET readers who responded to our poll. Plenty of other people didn’t give a fig, …

Apple’s latest adverts are proving to be a turn-off with viewers as they make a not-so-subtle dig at Samsung. Titled ‘Designed by Apple in California’, the adverts ask “If everyone is making everything, how can we perfect anything?” But the folks who measure the success of adverts have discovered that the latest Apple adverts score well below the average, and …

BlackBerry’s “solid ground” just got shakier. The company on Friday posted a loss in its fiscal first quarter, whereas analysts had projected at profit. Compounding the negativity was the eventual disclosure that it only sold 2.7 million BlackBerry 10 devices in the quarter and saw its subscriber base fall by 4 million to 72 million. It was a bad day …

The introduction of its new operating system earlier this year hasn’t helped BlackBerry to conquer its financial struggles, with the Canadian phone-maker announcing a surprise $84m (roughly £55m) loss for the three months up to 1 June. While BlackBerry says that smart phone sales are up 13 per cent since the previous quarter, that clearly isn’t earning the company enough …

Samsung launched its first curved OLED TV in South Korea on Thursday, just a week after announcing availability of its flat-screen OLED, the KN55F9500. But the curve will cost you, with a price of $13,000 U.S., or $4,000 more than the flat version. The television will ship in July, and according to Reuters, the company plans to release the curved …

Verizon Wireless is close to the finish line with its 4G LTE rollout. The nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscribers said on Thursday that its network has reached its 500th market with Parkersburg, W. Va. The company said it has virtually wrapped up its deployment, with a handful of markets left to get a 4G connection by the end of …

HTC’s well-received HTC One will shortly be making its debut in a swanky red version that will be available to Brits in just a few weeks. Those of you who were tempted by the Taiwanese company’s 4.7-inch flagship but weren’t enamoured with its aluminium style can finally rest easy, with the red version set to land in Phones 4u in …

Versions of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One running a stock version of Android are now on sale — but it seems that both phones will have to wait a little longer than Nexus devices to get new versions of Android. Although both phones run a version of Android that’s identical to the raw Android you’ll find on gadgets …

Whenever I envision the perfect smartphone, it has one key feature: a kickstand. (Bet you thought I was going to say freeze-ray. That’s no. 2 on the list.) Why the deep-seated longing for a pop-out propper-upper? Because my phone is my constant companion, used for everything from reading while I eat breakfast to watching movies on long flights to showing …

The U.S. Department of Defense is building its own secure 4G network to improve collaboration among separate branches of the military, according to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The network is part of an effort dubbed “Joint Information Environment,” which will consolidate 15,000 Defense Department networks in the cloud, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a …