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Watch out, Las Vegas: app developers are aiming to take your most tech-savvy and/or lazy customers away from you. Bloomberg reports that mobile gambling apps, which turn iPhones into mini-slot machines that let users place bets with real money, are on the rise and will soon be in fierce competition with one another over …

Finnish telecom giant Nokia and Microsoft plan to unveil a smartphone equipped with the US software giant's Windows Phone 8 operating system in New York on September 5, a report said Wednesday.

Shares of GT Advanced Technologies Inc., which makes products used by the solar and LED industries, surged Friday after a Canaccord Genuity analyst raised his rating on the company's stock citing the prospect of new opportunities in smartphone applications.

According to security research firm Kaspersky Labs, the volume of new malware targeting Android devices nearly tripled in the second quarter of 2012. Over the three-month period, the company found more than 14,900 new malicious programs targeting the platform. Nearly half of the malicious files were classified as multi-functional …

Many companies including Nokia and Research in Motion have been struggling to compete with Apple and manufacturers of devices running Google's Android software. That shows in some of the earnings reports released so far for the latest quarter.

Next week, Dell and Hewlett-Packard will report quarterly earnings. They will offer a peek into whether global economic worries have affected their sales, as they have with some other tech companies.

Israel on Thursday wound up nationwide testing of an SMS warning system against missile attack, sending texts to mobile phones in Jerusalem and other parts of the country, a military spokeswoman said.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion plans to provide BlackBerry users with an easy way to tap their contacts' public profiles -- including blog posts, tweets, emails and other details -- in its latest push to regain ground in the shartphone market. The new contact management feature, which pulls in contact details from …

HTC (2498) CEO Peter Chou has a message for his employees: stop blabbing, start working. Bloomberg reports that Chou sent out an email to employees complaining that “we have people in meeting and talking all the time but without decision, strategic direction or sense of urgency,” and he also said that when HTC employees …

Tokio, 17 ago (EFE).- El fabricante japonés de electrónica Sharp estudia vender sus divisiones de aire acondicionado y fotocopiadoras, y aceptar inversiones en su negocio de pantallas de LCD para "smartphones" de cara a enderezar el maltrecho rumbo de la empresa, informó hoy el diario Nikkei.

Why spend money on a mobile gaming platform when you can play lots of high-quality games on your tablet? That’s the reality that portable game console manufacturers Sony (SNE) and Nintendo (NTDOY) have to deal with as Android and iOS tablets have become powerful enough to host some high-quality games such as “Infinity Blade.” …

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A financial expert said Apple Inc has overstated Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's profit margins for mobile products, an issue that goes to the heart of damages in the high profile patent trial between the two tech companies. Michael Wagner, an accountant who testified on Thursday for Samsung, …

LAPEER, Michigan (Reuters) - Sam Odish co-owns the Sunoco gas station and convenience store where the single winning ticket in the $337 million Powerball lottery was sold. He had no idea until reporters and TV satellite trucks descended en masse on his store on the main street of this small Michigan town and informed him …

México, 16 Ago. (Notimex).- La empresa LG Electronics logró en el primer semestre del año un nuevo récord de ventas, al comercializar cinco millones de smartphones LTE en todo el mundo, tras más de un año de haber ingresado a este mercado.La compañía surcoreana expuso que decidió ampliar sus mercados objetivos luego de …

We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

Apple (AAPL) claims that Samsung (005930) earned $2.4 billion on smartphones and tablets that stole the company’s protected designs and technology. The South Korean electronics giant disagrees, however, and said Apple’s numbers are about $1.72 billion off. In the ongoing trial between the two companies, Samsung on Thursday …

Sao Paulo, 16 ago (EFE).- El 84 por ciento de los habitantes de las grandes ciudades brasileñas accede a Internet por medio de "smartphones" mientras está en una fila de espera y el 38 por ciento lo hace cuando está en el baño, según una encuesta divulgada hoy.

OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - A senior Canadian minister was prepped to discuss foreign investment rules with Research In Motion's new CEO in a March telephone call, mindful of intense takeover speculation that's still swirling around the embattled BlackBerry maker. Internal documents obtained by Reuters show that aides to …

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A financial expert said Apple Inc has overstated the profit margins earned by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for mobile products, an issue that goes to the heart of the high profile patent trial between the two tech companies. Michael Wagner, an accountant who testified on Thursday for Samsung, …

It's the latest high-tech attack and it's coming to cell phones everywhere. Here's the lowdown on smishing and what you can do about it.

Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry smartphones are still used by millions of people in the United States, but the smartphone market grew so quickly over the past year that RIM’s usage share has dwindled to almost nothing. Ad network Chitika recently conducted an 11-month study of RIM’s usage in the U.S., and the firm …

SEÚL (Reuters) - La nueva tableta de Samsung Electronics, dada a conocer en Estados Unidos, es el último intento del gigante de la electrónica surcoreano para luchar por cuota de mercado con Apple, aunque no está siendo anunciada como se hizo con el iPad. La tableta Galaxy Note 10.1 se lanza el jueves en Estados Unidos, …