Stephen Elop will make over $25 million in his return to Microsoft

Stephen Elop surely has a good reason to smile these days. According to a report in The New York Times, Nokia’s former CEO will make more than $25 million in his return to Microsoft after Nokia’s acquisition deal closes. Mr. Elop’s payout will be composed of salary, management incentives, and stock awards. The latter make for the bulk of the $25+ million he will take...

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iOS 7 lockscreen bug opens up even iPhone 5s users to attack

The secret is in the alarm clock app through Control Center While iOS 7 gave Apple's mobile operating system a new paint job, but it still suffers from an age-old problem: another lockscreen glitch that could give someone unwanted access to your device. The iOS 7 bug allows a person with physical access to your phone to a limited amount of data, even when...

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Microsoft gets real, admits Windows Phone is 'distant third' to iOS, Android

Microsoft tells it like it is Despite a recent spate of bullishness, Microsoft has seemingly conceded what the rest of the tech world has known for a long time: Windows Phone is still miles away from competing with iOS and Android. During a financial analyst meeting on Thursday, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner reportedly called the OS a 'distant third' to the...

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iOS 7 demand sees web traffic surge to 'highest ever' levels

Keen much, iOS 7 fans? The release of Apple's iOS 7 mobile software saw web traffic reach unprecedented levels in the UK on Wednesday night. The 750MB download (1.4GB for iPad) became available at 6pm on Wednesday, causing an instant spike in web activity, which peaked at around 9:30pm. According to data from the London Network Access Point company, data...

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Looks like iOS 7 beat iOS 6 in day one adoption

iOS 7 made 18 percent of iOS users' days brighter yesterday iOS 7 is one of the biggest changes yet for Apple's mobile operating system, but based on the day one adoption numbers it seems it paid off. Monitoring from ad network Chitika found that on Sept. 18, the first day that iOS 7 was widely available, 18.2 percent of iOS devices that accessed the sites...

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Get out of line! iPhone 5S will not be available from O2 stores on Friday

The latest iPhone blow for O2 customers O2 customers hoping to snap up a new iPhone 5S when it goes on sale in the UK on Friday, will not be able to do so from the network's retail stores around the country. Amid reports claiming the Touch ID-enabled device will be in seriously short supply, O2 confirmed it will only be available to order in store, over...

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Tim Cook on Nokia: A reminder of what happens when you don't innovate

Don't do what Nokia has - or hasn't - done. Nokia once sat on top of the phone maker heap, but those days are long gone. Though the company still ships oodles of handsets, there's a cautionary tale to be found in its story arc. Or so that's the thinking of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, offered a pointed remark about...

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Holy app stores! Users may rack up 102B downloads this year

IAP continues to rake it in It may have felt like the entire world was trying to download iOS 7 all at once yesterday, but that pales in comparison to the number of mobile apps users will download over the next year or two. Gartner today announced that annual downloads from mobile app stores will reach 102 billion in 2013, nearly twice the 64 billion users...

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Official specs of Jolla phone surface, will ship by end of 2013

Ever since Jolla announced its first-generation smartphone, which was simply called Jolla, it has created a buzz among the tech enthusiasts with its simplicity. Back then, the company did not announce the specifications of the device, but these are no longer a mystery as Jolla has officially announced what's under the hood in its smartphone. Accordingly, the device...

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Apple on the elusive cheap iPhone: 'We're not in the junk business'

Cheerful? Yes. Cheap? No. Apple may have launched an iPhone 5C last week but it soon became clear that the C did not stand for 'cheap'. So what about the "budget iPhone" that so many people were sure was on its way? Nothing. It's set to maintain mythical status forever, by the sounds of things. Speaking to Business Week on the matter, CEO Tim Cook said,...

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Nokia Android prototype reportedly is still into production

Last week the New York Times revealed that Nokia has indeed worked on an Android smartphone as an alternative to the Microsoft partnership prior to the acquisition announcement. As it turns out, the Finns haven't completely scraped the Android project and are still working on an Android smartphone. The report comes from a Weibo account CTechnology, which has generally...

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iOS 7 vs iOS 6: how different are they?

Control Center now gives you quick access to functions previously hidden in settings iOS 7 is the biggest change to Apple's iOS since the arrival of apps in 2008. It's brighter, bolder and guaranteed to annoy anyone who thought iOS looked just fine, but there's much more to it than that dramatic new user interface. iOS 7 is packed with new features big and...

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Flexible screens won't guarantee flexible devices, says E Ink

Don't think you'll be doing this to your phone anytime soon Everyone's been getting pretty darn excited over this whole flexible screen stuff, with many fantasising about roll up smartphones and bendy tablets, but it might be time to bring you all back down to earth. While the flexible screen industry is likely to take off in a big way in the next few years...

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11 brilliant iOS 7 tips and tricks

Make Apple's new OS work harder for you The jury may still be out on iOS 7's radical redesign - for what it's worth we love it, with a few reservations - but there's no denying that it's the friendliest version and most powerful of iOS yet. But there's more to iOS 7 than headline features such as Control Center, Airdrop and iTunes Radio: some of our favourite...

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Samsung's jumbo 12.2-inch tablet leaks online

Is there a new Note on the horizon? Samsung's current tablet range spans three main screen sizes - 7-, 8- and 10-inch - but apparently that's not enough for the Korean firm. According to a listing on the Bluetooth authentication website Samsung is currently developing a tablet sporting the model ID SM-P901 and, while this posting doesn't reveal any further...

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WSJ reports BlackBerry may lay off up to 40% of its employees

BlackBerry has hit hard times and there's talk of selling the company (the board is looking into it), even the patent portfolio was apprized to $2-3 billion. Whether or not the BlackBerry board will sell, there will be massive layoffs first as the company is looking to cut as much as 40% of its workforce, reports the Wall Street Journal. The job cuts will occur...

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