Chris Stobie

We take a look at Irish based company Yougetitback.com – a veritable knight in shining armor of the telecom world, there to rescue your lost and stolen mobile devices.

For Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo things are looking especially bleak, with shareholders raising the proverbial pitchforks before a meeting next week which could prove the Finnish phone chief’s last as CEO.

We test out the new Twitter app for Android, bringing you the first screenshots. Review to follow

LG has announced the Optimus, a smartphone the firm says is “a handset offering an optimal environment for first-time smartphone users with easy and convenient mobile access.” Basically, a smartphone for beginners.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is a man who likes to share his thoughts, and the outspoken chief’s latest rant on the company blog is no exception; taking aim at Adobe and its Flash offering in a move to silence critics.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is a man who likes to share his thoughts, and the outspoken chief’s latest rant on the company blog is no exception; taking aim at Adobe and its Flash offering in a move to silence critics.

Newbay – with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Seattle, Washington – believes it can help to lighten the virtual load with its own personal cloud concept.

HTC looks to be seriously benefiting from Android’s skyrocketing popularity, with the Taiwanese firm set to increase its shipments of all handsets based on Google’s OS.

Palm had been officially up for sale for a couple of weeks, with suitors including Lenovo, HTC, ZTE, Huawei and others, but HP stepping in to save Palm’s day was somewhat unexpected. We take a look at the implications and reactions to the acquisition.

Palm had been officially up for sale for a couple of weeks, with suitors including Lenovo, HTC, ZTE, Huawei and others, but HP stepping in to save Palm’s day was somewhat unexpected. We take a look at the implications and reactions to the acquisition.

People over at the Critical Media Lab in the University of Waterloo have gone somewhat loony and teamed up with a local Ontario dairy farmer to give 12 cows twitter accounts, in a bizarre use for RFID tagging.

In an ironic twist, it looks like Microsoft might be able to make money on every Android handset sold, while Google, which makes the operating system, won’t make a penny from it.

This month, NEC Electronics merged with Renesas Technology, giving birth to a brand new semiconductor manufacturer, Renesas Electronics. Showing off its wares at ESC in California, Renesas had a smart home demo set up.

No. 1 computer maker Hewlett-Packard has snapped up flailing phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion, giving the PC firm a huge boost in the mobile computing and smartphone market.

We took a stationary spin in the back of QNX’s connected concept car at the Embedded System Conference (ESC) in San Jose, Calif., this week

Catching up with QNX at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, RCR Unplugged delved into what the soon-to-be-signed-and-sealed acquisition of the company by RIM would mean for both firms

Catching up with QNX at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, RCR Unplugged delved into what the soon-to-be-signed-and-sealed acquisition of the company by RIM would mean for both firms

While ESC may not be all fun and games, little British chip shop, ARM, was doing its bit to liven things up at its booth, showing off a specially designed Rubik’s Cube solver.

ESC is not exactly known as a thrilling technology conference, but Texas Instruments (TI) was certainly doing its bit to liven things up, showing off its new video series, entitled “Smash IT” at its booth.

It seems pre-production phones have developed a tendency to walk off and end up where they are least wanted lately, with not only Apple, but now also Nokia managing to lose top secret prototypes

RIM has released a sneak peek video of its upcoming Blackberry 6 OS

In honor of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week in San Jose, Freescale Semiconductor has embedded itself with a trio of software companies – Enea Systems, Green Hills Software and Mentor Graphics – to bolster its software package offerings