Microsoft has decided this year that the best form of defence is to attack. Amid lukewarm responses to its new range of products (Windows 8, Surface Tablet) the company has decided to point out flaws in the services of its rivals. For the most part that has meant Microsoft attacking Google, but now the company has Apple in its site too.

In a new ad campaign the Redmond company has pitted Apple’s all-conquering iPad against tablets made for the Windows RT or Windows 8 platform. The ad make…

It is plainly obvious from looking at download figures and reviews that Facebook Home has been a disaster. The Android skin that makes a handset into a Facebook device has basically flopped and that scenario would always have dire consequences for the HTC First, the handset that was built around the Facebook Home feature.

On the back of prices for the device being slashed in the United States, it has also now been pulled from going on sale in the UK, while we suspect this move will also s…

Samsung has announced today that it has shipped 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones to retailers and carrier operators within the first month of the handset’s release. The figure makes the S4 Samsung’s fastest moving handset ever, although it is worth mentioning that the figure is for shipments to retailers and not end users. But how do those numbers stack up against the company’s rivals?

Apple is of course Samsung’s great rival in the smartphone world, and while Samsung can point to a 10 mi…

Troubled Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has seen a mass exodus of executives over the last few days, with many of the top brass within the company jumping ship. Five senior employees have now left the company, with one taking to twitter to urge others to follow suit.

Former product strategy manager Eric Lin took to twitter with, “to all my friends still at HTC – just quit. Leave now. It’s tough to do, but you’ll be so much happier, I swear.” The exodus seems to stem from U.S. emplo…

The mobile message market has become a busy place with companies like WhatsApp, Viber, Google Hangouts and many more jostling for space. MessageMe entered the fray late, but nevertheless the message service is proving popular with Android and iOS users and is further evidence that free messaging is killing off the now humble text SMS.

MessageMe today announced that the app had been downloaded 5 million times in just 75 days, meaning it has been a popular choice among Android and iOS users…

Remember the days when compact discs became popular? We were all told (somewhat mythically it turned out) that these new ways to listen to songs were indestructible. Cue attempts to destroy CDs and the realization that no, they were not indestructible after-all. Well, how times have changed as we all but wave goodbye to the CD, but something’s in tech never change.

Korean electronics giant LG is the latest to offer the indestructible selling point with its recently revealed flexible scree…

We have good news for all frequent travellers in Europe as European digital commissioner Neelie Kroes has said that the EU will be a single market by 2015. In other words Kroes is promising to get rid of high roaming rates around the continent.

Unlike the U.S. states, the countries within Europe all have separate tariff charges and are separate markets. That means those who move throughout member states on business or indeed pleasure are subject to excessively high roaming rates that make…

One of the surprise announcements from Google at the I/O event on Wednesday was the Galaxy S4 running a stock version of Android 4.2. The handset will be a Google Play exclusive and will cost $649, but how does it differ from the regular Samsung Galaxy S4?

Well in terms of design and specs both devices are identical. The Google Galaxy S4 packs the same Snapdragon 600 chipset, 13MP camera, 16GB of internal storage, 1080p display and LTE support that are on the regular version of Samsung’s …

Google announced today that the Google Play store has seen 48 billion apps downloaded for Android devices. Not to be outdone Apple revealed today that the App Store had been responsible for 50 billion app downloads, beating out Google Play by a massive 2 billion.

Apple has been counting down to the figure for some time, and it seems the gods smiled upon the company today as the 50 billionth download happened the same day Google boasted its own figures. Apple will also point to the fact th…

It has been a very busy day at the Google I/O developer’s conference. Perhaps the biggest surprise has been the unveiling of a special Samsung Galaxy S4, one that runs on a stock version of Google’s own platform, Android Jelly Bean.

The handset under the hood is the exact same Galaxy S4 you can already get, but that stock Jelly Bean really is a selling point for Google. Samsung currently wraps Android in its own interface and bloatware but this S4 variant will pack the normal untouched An…