Ofcom has criticised the quality of subtitling on live TV shows, proposing a short time delay to improve the situation. “Viewers have made clear that there are continuing problems with the speed, synchronisation, accuracy and presentation of live TV subtitling,” the UK communications regulator says. It’s asking broadcasters what they would think of “the feasibility …

Now playing: Watch this: Use your Galaxy S4 as a universal remote 4:05 Years before smartphones were a thing, Nokia was one of the first manufacturers to add IR blasters to its dumbphones. The use case was pretty limited, though, as the cool factor typically ended after the fun of turning TVs off at Circuit City died off. But IR …

Verizon subscribers eying Nokia’s new Lumia 928 can now pick up the phone either online or offline. Related stories Nokia Lumia 928: A mighty Windows Phone for a great price Windows Phone jumps to third place in smartphone market As previously promised, the 928 went on sale Thursday, available through Verizon’s Web site and its brick-and-mortar retail stores. Selling the …

Bad news for Brits — Google’s raw-Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 is launching only in the US. Other nations will have to watch from the sidelines it seems, as Google has told CNET that the Google Edition version of the S4, which made its grand debut at Google’s I/O conference last night, will be US-only at launch. The …

Android scooped up more than half of all ad impressions seen by Millennial Media last quarter, according to the ad network’s new MobileMix report. For the first quarter, Android won 52 percent of all impressions (the number of times a mobile ad is displayed), up from 49 percent in the year-ago quarter. In second place, iOS accounted for 39 percent …

Windows Phone has overtaken BlackBerry in the smart phone hit parade. But as Windows Phone sales double, the latest figures reveal that Android still dominates. BlackBerry’s share of the smart phone market dropped by a third to 2.9 per cent, allowing Windows Phone to slide into third place after doubling sales from this time last year. The new lineup of …

The Microsoft Surface Pro lands in Britain next week, costing £720. The Windows 8 tablet is finally on sale from next Thursday, 23 May. That’s Microsoft’s price for the 64GB version. A model with a roomier 128GB memory will set you back around £800. The Surface Pro is Microsoft’s tablet showing off Windows 8 — not to be confused with …

An increasing number of people are deciding to dedicate their cash to Apple’s iOS rather than traditional gaming handhelds, according to a new study. A joint study performed by research firms IDC and App Annie found that during the first quarter of 2013, total spending on iOS App Store games outpaced that of dedicated handhelds such as Nintendo’s 3DS and …

Microsoft’s Windows Phone grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter, market researcher IDC said Thursday. Windows Phone accounted for shipments of 7 million smartphones, earning itself a market share of 3.2 percent last quarter. That was a gain from the first quarter of 2012, which saw shipments of 3 million and a market share …

Paul Otellini passed up one of the biggest opportunities in Intel’s history — supplying chips for the first iPhone, the chipmaker’s former CEO said. Otellini “decided against doing what it took” to make the chips for Apple’s smartphone, The Atlantic reported, based on an interview with the newly retired executive. Here’s what he told the publication: We ended up not …