Powermat announced today, that they will be acquiring Finnish wireless charging rival PowerKiss, which sees both companies combining under the Powermat brand. This brings together more than 2500 wireless charging spots in coffee shops, airports, and stores in the USA and Europe. Both companies had also once allied under the Power Matters Alliance (PMA), to combat against rival Wireless Power Consortium (WPC ...

Popular email app for iOS, Mailbox, has seen a pretty successful run on iPhone and iPod Touch so far, but there's been a huge demand for an iPad-native version, for folks to get to inbox zero on a much larger screen. And hey hey, that's just what the latest update brings along! Mailbox v1.3 now supports the iPad, so you can swipe away at your inbox using the app. What's New in Version 1.3 - now optimized fo ...

Facebook's officially endorsed smartphone, the HTC First, hasnt been doing so great y'all. Mostly because not too many people actually cared about a Facebook-user-interface on a phone, as is evident from the reviews that Facebook Home for Android has been getting. As a result, AT&T slashed the phone's price but still didnt manage to sell many units, which has resulted in Facebook postponing the UK launc ...

Shazam for iPad just got a huge update that allows you to find a song and then listen to it on Spotify or Rdio. There's also a new UI home screen, and an auto-tagging mode that'll passively listen to any music in the background. A NEW version of Shazam is here. If you've got an iPad Shazam now has a redesigned discovery home screen, improved tag result layout and new features exclusive to iPad! - Auto taggi ...

Along with the HTC Desire 600 that was announced for the EMEA region, which will be coming to China as the Desire 606w, HTC China's website also listed a new HTC Desire 608t. It features the same design as the HTC Desire SV, but has a TD-SCDMA radio for China Mobile, Dual-SIM, Android 4.1 with HTC Sense 5 on top, BoomSound front stereo speakers, 4.5 inch 960 x 540 Super LCD 2, 1.2GHz quad-core qualcomm proc ...

HTC has sold five million units of their new flagship smartphone, the HTC One. The figure is pretty impressive, and contradict rumors of HTC's struggles. The company has been facing production issues with the HTC One, which has seen limited availability in some parts of the world, which as a result meant that HTC could not keep up with Samsung, who announced 10 million units of their Galaxy S4 shipped so fa ...

The HTC Desire 600 was announced today, a new mid-range smartphone meant for the EMEA region. The Desire 600 boasts a 4.5-inch qHD display, 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 quad-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot, NFC, Bluetooth, Wifi, an 8 Megapixel camera, 1.6 Megapixel front facing camera, 3G, BoomSound dual-speakers and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with HTC Sense 5 on ...

Samsung announced today, that they have shipped 10 Million units of the Galaxy S4, globally. This comes in a little less than a month since it's official launch on April 27th, and sets a new record for Samsung, who's previous flagship, the Galaxy S III, took a full 50 days to reach the same figure. The Galaxy S II on the other hand, took five months to reach 10 million units shipped. According to Samsung, t ...

Looks like Microsoft is keen to resurrect the ol' Mac vs PC war, though this time it's more like iOS vs Windows 8 with their new commercial which attacks Apple's iPad, bringing Siri along to help them in the cause. In the commercial, Microsoft highlights Windows 8 and it's various features such as Live Tiles, and Powerpoint, along with the $449 price of the 64GB ASUS' VivoTab Smart tablet, ignoring any stre ...

After months of having a mobile app that was just a bookmark to the YouTube mobile website, Microsoft updated the YouTube for Windows Phone app to finally bring it up to par (ish) with, well, what you'd expect a YouTube app to be like. Unfortunately though, the Microsoft-made app came under fire for not adhering to some of Google's policies, such as the lack of advertisements and how the Windows Phone app a ...

Foursquare updated their Android and iOS apps with a new "super-specific search" today. The new feature allows users to make search queries at a more granular level, through a range of filters such as price, open timings, whether any of your friends have been there before, etc, making full use of Foursquare's huge amount of user check-in data. The app can also understand natural language queries, which seem ...

After updating the Google+ app to suit the new design of their social network, Google has also bought the cards user interface to Google Drive for Android today. The updated app sports the new flat, squared-off style that Google is using nowadays, with a larger focus on images. Users can now switch between a text-based list and a grid which offers larger file previews. Individual file previews are displayed ...

Looks like waterproof smartphones are the fad right now, with Sony's Xperia Z kicking things off this year, and then Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active turning up this week and now LG's announced a new waterproof smartphone called the LG Optimus GJ. As you can probably guess from the name, the Optimus GJ shares a lot in common with LG's flagship-or-not phone the LG Optimus G, with the same 4.7 inch 720p display, qu ...

Twitter announced today, that they are finally rolling out two-step authentication for accounts. This has been a long time coming, after several high profile twitter accounts were hacked over the last few months. Definitely a much-needed security feature. The two-factor authentication works through SMS to protect accounts, and you can enable the feature right in your Account settings, provided you have a co ...

If you were looking for a fully functional Instagram client for Windows Phone (y'know, one that can actually upload images to the service, apart from just viewing pictures), then here's good news for ya. Itsdagram, the popular Instagram client for Windows Phone just released a free ad-supported version. The premium without-ads version of Itsdagram costs about $1.49 (just like other Instagram clients on WP) ...