Chinese authorities have approved Google’s bid to acquire Motorola Mobility, clearing the final regulatory hurdle in a $12.5 billion deal initiated in August 2011 that gives the search giant a mobile device hardware business to go along with its successful Android operating system for smartphones and tablets. Regulators in other major regional…

Cisco Systems’ ASA 5500 series is one of many firewalls that drops data packets that contains invalid TCP sequence numbers. The feature leaks data that can be used to hijack connections. Computer scientists have identified a vulnerability in the network of AT&T and at least 47 other cellular carriers that allows…

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of… Latest Vodacom statistics reveal an interesting trend regarding the most popular smartphone and tablet PC platforms Vodacom’s latest statistics reveal that Android is showing strong growth…

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has received hundreds of calls from consumers nationwide inquiring about the Clear-Cast HDTV Antenna. The product is manufactured by Brilliant Built Technologies, a subsidiary of Universal Media Syndicate, Inc., located in Canton, Ohio. The company is running large advertorial ads that appear in newspapers across…

Kayak shafted BlackBerry users recently with a public announcement that they were dropping support and maintenance for us in January. They they proceeded to do an about face and released their Android app on the PlayBook using the Android runtime. Now they have further muddled the issue by releasing what…

ISLAMABADPakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for several hours because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials. The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan…

I love to say “I told you so,” but this one was so super obvious it doesn’t even feel good: 3-D isn’t a big motivator for HDTV buyers. Despite a dramatic rise in sales of 3-D HDTVs, only 14 percent of consumers interested in, or expecting to purchase, a flat-panel Here’s…

New Delhi: If you are looking for a budget-friendly smartphone, which not only has a solid form factor and rich features, but also has some brand value attached to it, then you should not ignore RIM’s BlackBerry Curve 9220. The company launched this feature-rich affordable smartphone last month, and after The…

If you are confused by the differences between a laptop, notebook, and netbook, you may soon find the situation a whole lot more baffling: New portable computer models now carry titles like ‘Ultrabook,’ ‘Sleekbook,’ and ‘fauxtrabook’. To help you break through some of the mystery, here’s a quick…

Computerworld – Microsoft said Friday that it is abandoning the “Aero” user interface with Windows 8, calling the UI that debuted in Vista and continued in Windows 7, “cheesy” and “dated.” In a massive 11,300-word blog post, Jensen Harris, the director of program management for Windows 8’s user experience team, said that…