Were you thinking that all the hoopla about Carrier IQ was just overblown paranoia? Think again. A Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI led to the FBI inadvertantly admitting that it has, in some way, accessed the keylogging spyware. The request... 

At the moment, Siri is one of a kind. The iOS assistant is in its infancy, but it’s still miles ahead of any rival voice recognition platforms. Android has implemented voice search from the beginning, but it lacks Siri’s conversational A.I.... 

Aside from those pesky battery issues, iOS 5 has been very well received. Apple’s mobile OS finally got improved notifications, iMessage lets you save on text messaging, and the iTunes cord has been cut with iCloud. But a new bug has surfaced that... 

For several weeks, all has been quiet on the iOS 5 front. Apple released iOS 5, people had battery problems, Apple released iOS 5.0.1, some people still had battery problems, then nothing. Today though Apple gave developers a second beta of iOS 5.1.... 

Something big happened this week. OnLive, the cloud gaming service, released an Android app. That means that if you have an Android phone or tablet, you can play LA Noire, Batman: Arkham City, or Deus Ex: Human Revolution on your mobile device. You can... 

Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse have a new competitor. Google has released its take on the magazine-like reading hub: they call it Currents. It’s available now for Android and iOS. Like Flipboard and its rivals, Currents delivers content from partner... 

War is hell, Apple — are you sure you wanted to start one? After declaring patent war on Android, Apple has taken some blows. First it lost its appeal to ban Samsung Galaxy products in Australia. Now a much bigger setback has hit Cupertino: a German... 

When HP reversed course and decided not to kill its PC business, many wondered what would become of WebOS. After much deliberating, CEO Meg Whitman has decided to open-source the operating system. Other manufacturers can use it, but HP may also be planning... 

Few things are more frustrating to an avid gamer than the complete and total lack of cross-platform support for most games out there. I want to play online, with my friends, regardless of what platform they are on. Some have tried, but it’s never... 

With all the noise and speculation around release date of the Galaxy Nexus’ launch on Verizon Wireless, isn’t it high time we had something real? Between Verizon Wireless, Samsung, and Google, the silence on the topic has been deafening.... 

Launching less than two years ago, iBooks quickly established itself as a leading eBook app. It has a gorgeous interface, a store with thousands of titles, and even allows sideloaded PDF and EPUB files. Last night Apple pushed the biggest update to iBooks... 

The road to the unveiling of the next Nexus-branded device has been a long and confusing one. The volume of speculation about manufacturer, carrier, and hardware reached such a fever pitch at one point my RSS feed was bursting with the word “Nexus”.... 

This may not be enough to make Android fans switch to iOS, but it is an annoying result of multiple businesses jockeying for control over a phone. Despite the Galaxy Nexus’s NFC chip, Verizon is blocking the Google Wallet payment system from the... 

The secret is out. The software that has been tooling around on a variety of handsets for the last couple years has been brought to the attention of the users, and we’re really not happy about it. The software isn’t new, nobody told us about... 

For all of its technical geekiness, the Android is fun. There is always an exciting new phone around the corner that trumps the last one and if you’re tech-savvy, you can have a different phone every day by flashing new ROMs and installing new...