Sharp and Samsung have put nearly three years of battling over LCD panel and module patents behind them with a deal that ends all ongoing patent infringement disputes, they said Monday. Both companies declined to disclose details of the agreement.

There’s quite a collection of good and colorful blogs that track iPhones, Android devices, BlackBerries and other smartphones and no shortage of overlapping coverage among them (How many different “scoops” on the Android-powered Motorola Devour phone did I come across today?). Some are written by professional reporters, others by...

Microsoft is aiming to make Web viewing of the Winter Olympics a lot more like watching the events on TV. While Beijing brought the first widespread use of the Internet to deliver live video of the Games, the Vancouver Olympics–which starts February 12–will offer a range of new options, including TiVo-like features like pausing, rewinding,...

A QUARTER of Aussies have been left red-faced after sending a personal email or text message to the wrong person. Our love of mobile phones and the internet has left us exposed to upsetting or embarrassing misunderstandings. A survey has found 34 per cent of people have been left distressed after misreading an email or SMS.

GOOGLE’S making the first phone able to translate foreign languages almost instantly. The Sunday Times of London reports that by building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hoped to have a basic system ready within a couple of years.

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy says he won’t push for new laws to tackle illegal file-sharing while the movie and internet industries are unable to work together. Senator Conroy said it was disappointing that the industries had ended up in court rather than working together to solve the problem.

The Nexus One has been multi-touching itself with all kinds of pinch zoom functionality for days now, while Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Droid users have been left wanting a quick and convenient way to zoom in and out of web pages and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps. Today, thanks to an otherwise unassuming update to the Android Google Maps app, Droids across the...

The Nexus One might be on the tip of mobile industry’s tongue right now, but that hasn’t slowed the number of alleged Applet “iSlate” Tablet rumors coming to light. And, this latest Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Tablet rumor is a doozy. The folks over at PhoneArena have gotten their hands on what purports to be a Apple internal documents that basically...

In this week’s show we start in Europe where the European Commission accepted Microsoft’s commitments to offer browser choice, putting an end to the Commission’s antitrust investigation. While Microsoft may be out of trouble, Intel is back in trouble, this time with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Check out the show video to find...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) revealed this Thursday a host of new innovations to be featured its next iteration of the popular Bluetooth wireless protocol. Version 4.0 of the Bluetooth Core Specification comes shortly after the faster 3.0 spec, which was announced back in April of this year. However, unlike 3.0’s speed-centric hallmark,...