comScore: Android shows a small decline in the United States

The digital measurement and analytics firm comScore released its latest report showcasing the latest trends on the smartphone market in the United States. Google’s Android remains the most dominant mobile OS, with Apple iOS coming in second. According to comScore’s data Android holds 51.6% total smartphones subscribers in August 2013– 0.8% less than it did in...

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$179 BLU Studio 5.5 now official with two SIM slots, quad-core CPU

BLU has announced its Studio 5.5 affordable smartphone, which offers a large screen and a quad-core CPU at a very attractive price point. It's built around a 5.5" TFT display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, which makes for a pixel density of 178ppi. Under the hood, the BLU Studio 5.5 packs a 1.2GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU and a PowerVR SGX544 GPU on the...

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Moto Maker rumored to hit Verizon Wireless on November 11

As expected the AT&T exclusivity of the Moto Maker customization tool for the Moto X is nearing an end. According to a @evleaks, Verizon Wireless will begin offering the service to its customers next month, on November 11. Currently, Verizon customers interested in the Moto X can pick only between two color schemes – Woven White and Woven Black. It is needless...

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As Apple marks anniversary of Steve Jobs death, employees recall first iPhone launch

The iPhone was arguably Jobs' crowning achievement With Apple marking the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, a new book has offered an insight into life at Cupertino in the lead up to the launch of perhaps the tech visionary's finest achievement - the iPhone. The New York Times has published excerpts from the forthcoming Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went...

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Windows Phone Facebook users can now ditch people they don't like

Unfriend 'til your heart's content Windows Phone users have awoken to a new Facebook update, which allows them to clean house of all of those annoying sort-of-friends, from the comfort of their smartphone. The Facebook 5.1 update adds the ability to unfriend contacts from the application as well as 'unlike' content they have previously liked directly from...

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Google, Samsung, LG, Intel and more reportedly weighing up BlackBerry bids

Could a tech giant fancy a slice of BlackBerry pie? Tech giants Google, Samsung, Intel and Samsung are reportedly in talks with BlackBerry over a potential buyout of some, or all of the struggling smartphone giant. Reuters brings word that the firms, which are also said to include Cisco and SAP, have responded to a plea from BlackBerry for interest from...

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