Anyone in the market for a smartphone these days will likely see the term 4G shoved in their face by the major carriers.

They say patience is a virtue, but like temperance and chastity, it’s not much fun. Unfortunately, if you want to reach a state of true techstasy, you may need to repress your desire to buy a new gadget today and wait for the next version to come out

Facebook updated its status to “public company” on Friday.

Chameleon, an Android tablet enhancement that makes the home screen easier to use, started off as a company-wide design exercise.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Facebook is updating its status to “public company” as its stock jumps in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Facebook is updating its status to “public company” as its stock jumps in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Nothing is easier to mock in politics right now than the apparent reluctance of leading Republicans to sign on as Mitt Romney’s second banana. A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart summarized the way that Rob Portman was plugging his Senate colleague Marco Rubio, who in turn was passing the baton to Jeb Bush, with the line, “Doesn’t anyone want the rock in crunch time?”

The organizing committee for the 2012 Olympics in London have announced the release of two free applications for following the event, available for iOS and Android. One, released this past week, concerns organizing one’s arrival and stay in London and sharing the experience with friends. The second, which will allow fans to get sports events results live, should be available within the coming months

A document by a conservative super PAC refers to the president as “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”

What do you get when you cross a struggling vendor’s debut tablet with a mobile operating system that has spent the past 18 months running into the brick wall that is Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS? One Dutch developer seemingly needed to find out, so he ported Microsoft’s perpetually-emerging Windows Phone OS onto RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook. The result is a somewhat responsive slate that gives us a look at what will never be; Microsoft is on record in stating that it has no interest in bringing Windows Phone — emphasis on “Phone” — to tablets

(Reuters) – Patent licensing company Wi-Lan Inc said a U.S. judge had ruled in its favor in a patent infringement claim related to handset products and high-speed packet access base stations. Wi-Lan had alleged that Alcatel-Lucent USA, HTC Corp and Sony Corp’s Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc had infringed four of its patents.

(Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. This will allow the government employees to use six models of the smart phone including BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9860, RIM said. Ministry of defence, central government employees and more than half of the country’s police force use BlackBerry smart phones, the company said.

LG on Wednesday announced a new user-interface skin for its Android-powered devices running Ice Cream Sandwich.

Samsung recently updated its website to include a list of T-Mobile devices that will receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades. “Samsung is in close communication with both Google and our carrier partners to upgrade devices to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as quickly and as smoothly as possible,” the company wrote on its website.

In a lighthearted video posted Tuesday on his official YouTube channel, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie jokes that he’s finished with town hall meetings, in part, because he’s sick of the vice presidential questions. The tongue-in-cheek video opens with two of his aides discussing the governor’s outreach strategy, and they agree to put Christie through

Warren Buffett’s company is apparently bullish on the U.S. auto industry.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is increasing the size of its IPO by 85 million shares to about 422 million, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, raising more than $15 billion in Silicon Valley’s largest market debut. The increased volume comes just after the world’s No.

Environmental monitoring of one of the statues is set up in Quarry 2. For more information visit the Easter Island Statue Project