All eyes are set on Worldwide Developers Conference starting on June 5 where Apple is expected to announce the next generation iPhone 5. Sir Howard Stringer, president and CEO of Sony Corp, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, is said to have slipped Sony s plans about 8 megapixel image sensors to be supplied to Apple for next generation iPhone 5. Seth Weintraub,

Microsoft says that Windows Phone 7′s app marketplace is booming. In a chest-beating blog post, Microsoft revealed that WinPho7′s app count stands at 11,500, and that’s without wallpapers or duplicate apps in different languages. The ecosystem has 36,000 developers, 60 percent of which haven’t even published anything yet, so the potential for growth is huge.
Still, some tech pundits, such as Robert Scoble, insist that a

On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne established a small company to sell personal computer kits hand-built by Wozniak. That company, as you probably know, was Apple Computer.
Thirty-five years later, Apple is now the most valuable technology company in the world. Its market capitalization exceeds $317 billion, trumping longtime rival Microsoft by more than $100 billion. And Apple’s iconic products sit

Microsoft is jumping on the one-swipe mobile payment bandwagon by introducing Near Field Communications (NFC) technology to Windows Phone 7, according to online rumors. NFC would allow Phone 7 users to pay for items such as subway tickets, groceries and drug store purchases by waving their handsets in front of a machine. The mobile payment technology could be part of the Phone 7 operating system

In its patent battle against Apple, there’s just no stopping Nokia.
The Finnish company announced today that it has filed another complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Apple for allegedly violating Nokia patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”
Nokia’s complaint cites seven patents that it believes Apple violates through its use of “multitasking operating systems, data synchronization,

Increasing the idea that smartphones can do pretty much anything, Internet giant Google has joined forces with Mastercard and Citigroup to create a new form of mobile payment that removes the need for conventional plastic cards.
That’s according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, which cites sources close to the matter in its claim that consumers armed with Android-powered smartphones will soon be able

Early iPad 2 buyers faced a relative shortage of protective cases and coverings made specifically for their new devices. The most prominent on the market, of course, was Apple’s own Smart Cover. The design is sleek, and it’s highly functional as a cover and stand, though it doesn’t offer the kind of rough-and-tumble protection you might want if you’re iPad is in for some serious

Now that CES, MWC, and CTIA are all wrapped up I thought it would be appropriate to go through what I think are the top 10 smartphones for the first half of 2011. My top 10 smartphones of 2010 article was very popular and readers seem to like these types of comparison articles. I will follow up in a month or so with an article

The Nintendo 3DS arrived in Europe and North America this weekend seeing the long wait for glasses-free 3D finally come to an end.
If you swooped in for a day-one purchase you’ve probably had little time over the weekend in which you haven’t been seeing an extra dimension behind your gaming screen.
But we want to know just HOW much of an impact 3DS has had on

Offering plenty of mobile computing power plus room to multitask, study, and play, the Toshiba Satellite L655 (model L655-S5158) offers a generous 15.6-inch display that’s great for doing more things at once–handling business at home or in the field, watching movies or playing online RPG games. The L655 is perfect for handling computing essentials at home, school or work–from surfing the Web and downloading video