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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc and its Motorola Mobility unit struck back on Wednesday against BT Group Plc, filing patent lawsuits against the British telecommunications group more than a year after BT launched its own lawsuit against Google. BT, Britain's dominant fixed-line telecoms group, sued Google in 2011 over …

The most famous mobile app franchise in the world has generated more than 1 billion downloads over the past three years — yet it currently has no games in the United States top 50 revenue chart for either the iPhone or iPad. On Wednesday, Angry Birds Star Wars dropped to No. 66 on the App Annie iPhone app revenue chart. …

(Reuters) - Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Wednesday condemned the failure of witnesses to alert police after seeing a young man forced to strip naked and whipped over a $20 debt - violence revealed only after a cell phone video went viral on the Internet. The two and a half minute video of the beating, which took place in …

After its failed acquisition of Palm and abandonment of webOS, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will now reportedly look towards Android to power its next-generation of mobile devices. Sources speaking to ReadWrite claim that the company is planning to release a high-end tablet that will be equipped with NVIDIA’s new Tegra 4 processor …

Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek packed a ton of Apple (AAPL) information in his latest research note, including updates on Apple’s long-rumored television set and its more recently rumored “iPhablet.” On tidbit that we shouldn’t overlook, however, is that Misek’s supply chain sources say that they’re slowing down iPhone …

HBO excited subscribers on Tuesday when it announced during the D: Dive Into Media conference that its HBO GO and MAX GO iOS apps were updated with AirPlay support. The news meant iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users could finally stream content from their devices to Apple TV boxes connected to a television set. Following …

Police in Australia slammed Apple’s (AAPL) iOS Maps application late last year when it guided motorists to the middle of a massive national park and left them for dead. They called the inaccuracies in Apple’s mapping app “a potentially life threatening issue” and advised motorists to avoid using the iPhone app completely. …

LONDON (Reuters) - British police investigating the hacking of mobile phones to generate stories at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid made six more arrests of journalists or former journalists on Wednesday. The phone hacking in the new arrests was believed to have taken place in 2005 and 2006, the police …

Owners of recent Nexus smartphones and tablets are beginning to report receiving an update to a new version of Android, version 4.2.2. Nexus devices like the Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Nexus 7 tablet receive such operating system updates quicker than other Android gadgets, which are seldom if ever updated.

HTC (2498) still has plenty of work ahead of it if the company hopes to regain the momentum it saw in mid-2011 when it reported six straight months of record revenue. Things have been rocky for HTC since then, and its short-term hopes for a rebound lie squarely on the shoulders of its upcoming flagship smartphone, code-named …

LONDON (Reuters) - British police investigating the hacking of mobile phones to generate stories at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid made six more arrests of journalists or former journalists on Wednesday. The phone hacking in the new arrests was believed to have taken place in 2005 and 2006, the police …

BlueStacks on Tuesday announced the availability of its Android “App Player” for the Surface Pro tablet and other Windows 8 devices. The announcement comes a little over a year after the company first announced that it was working on bringing its popular program, which gives users access to more than 750,000 Android apps, …

Google Now, the award-winning personal assistant/psychic stalker app that’s being pitched as a superior alternative to Siri, may be about to get its very own Android widget. AndroidCentral has spotted a reference to an in-development Google Now widget on a Google (GOOG) support page that goes right on users’ smartphone …

British-based luxury mobile phone maker Vertu has announced its first Android smartphone. And no, as was true for other Vertu phones, you probably can’t afford it. The handmade Vertu Ti starts at $9,600, with a more expensive rose gold-trimmed model that sells for a whopping...

HBO on Tuesday updated its HBO GO and MAX GO applications for the iPhone and iPad, adding long-awaited AirPlay support. The new update will allow cable and satellite TV customers who subscribe to either HBO or Cinemax to stream on-demand content via their iOS devices to any Apple TV set-top box. The announcement was made …

Apple’s (AAPL) share price has taken a huge hit over the past few months as analysts did their best to call Apple’s future prospects into question. No one is arguing that Apple will continue to grow in the near future, but the explosive growth the company has enjoyed for the past few years is likely to slow and the huge …

Apple’s (AAPL) share price has taken a huge hit over the past few months as analysts did their best to call Apple’s future prospects into question. No one is arguing that Apple will continue to grow in the near future, but the explosive growth the company has enjoyed for the past few years is likely to slow and the huge …

Last summer, Nokia (NOK) was reported to have sold its luxury phone division to private equity group EQT for estimated $250 million — less than the annual sales that the unit generated. The new owners of the Vertu have wasted no time switching from Symbian to Android. A new Vertu Android line called Ti is now available …

Apple (AAPL) may be releasing a cheaper version of the iPhone, but don’t dare call it “cheap.” Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t directly address whether Apple would release a cheaper iPhone in the future, but he did say that the company would not release …

According to a user on Reddit, Android 4.2.2 is now rolling out to Nexus brand devices. It had previously been reported that the latest Android update was being tested by Google (GOOG) employees and would be available to consumers as early as mid-February. The update is said to finally address a Bluetooth streaming issue …

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish phone maker Nokia said on Tuesday it was protesting against a tax investigation in India, a crucial market, in the latest dispute involving a foreign company's tax. Nokia said it has not yet received any information on potential claims resulting from the investigation that started in January. …

Photos of what may be Apple's next iPhone surfaced online Monday.

Although Apple has a reputation for revolutionary products, they don’t appear out of thin air. Usually, when the company enters a new market, it first looks at all the competition and figures out why it hasn’t become popular. Only then does Apple make a big leap forward, as it did with the iPod, iPhone and iPad.