Major app store players, such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft, may be unlikely to adopt new privacy rules proposed by the GSM Association (GSMA) this week, as it would restrict their money making business models, according to analysts. GSMA, a collection of companies devoted to developing the GSM telephone system, this week released a new [...]

02 March 2012 New research by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) claims using smartphones for social networking while driving is more dangerous than drink-driving or being high on cannabis behind the wheel.  Despite the legal ban on using mobile phones while driving, 24% of 17-24-year-old drivers – a group already at higher risk of [...]

China-based gadget blog says it has obtained and assembled the front glass, rear shell, and cases for Apple’s next tablet. There’s a new iPad in town soon. (Credit: Apple) Apple is widely expected to unveil the iPad 3 later this week, but a gadget blog has gotten its hands on what are purportedly pieces of [...]

Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant for the iPhone 4S, can do a lot of things. It can’t, however, provide all the location features in the UK as it can in the US, due to Apple not signing deals with the relevant companies. So when Vodafone showed an advert touting Siri’s abilities, someone complained that it [...]

Samsung did announce several new products last week though, including the Beam smartphone, which incorporates a projector, and a new version of the Galaxy Note, the tablet-sized Galaxy Note 10.1.

Apple will sell 55 million iPads this year, with sales driven by a “significant” upgrade in the shape of the iPad 3, an analyst has predicted. Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee issued a note to investors, picked up by Apple Insider, saying that the third-generation iPad — which is expected to be unveiled next week [...]

The former Facebook moderator, 21 year-old Amine Derkaoui from Morocco, has shown The Telegraph several screenshots of what these outsourced workers see when deciding if a piece of content is suitable to be on the site. Derkaoui, who was employed by oDesk – the company Facebook used to employ outsourced content moderators, claimed here was [...]

Samsung could start selling the Galaxy S3 in the UK in April according to an article published by ZDNet’s Korean news outlet. The smartphone was rumoured to be launched in February at Mobile World Congress but instead, it is likely that Samsung Galaxy S3 will come on the 15th of March after Sammobile received an [...]

Dear Tom The rise of the internet, from obscurity to ubiquity in the course of a few decades, has had profound effects on our society and on us as individuals. No one could have predicted how significant it would become, and no one can predict with any certainty how it will develop. This is true [...]

Next Wednesday 7th March, Apple, the world’s most valuable company will continue their onslaught on the tablet market and our pockets by announcing the next must-have piece of tech goodness.  It seems to be de rigeur now that in the weeks preceding the (now) predictable two yearly Apple announcements in March and October the fan [...]