Smart phones get lonely sometimes — that’s why Sony is supposedly cooking up a 10.1-inch …

Texting money from your mobile to friends and businesses is just over a year away. With just a phone number, customers of banks including Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds could send money from their phones by spring of 2014. The Payments Council — the body in charge of greasing the wheels of payments — says by next year 90 per cent …

Want a smartphone on the cheap? Usually that means going the subsidized route, signing up for a two-year contract that’ll cost you a small fortune by the time you’re done. The Kogan Agora is an unlocked Android 4.0 smartphone priced at $149 (plus shipping). Due to arrive in the U.S. next month, it’ll support no-contract, pay-as-you-go plans from AT&T and …