Here at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, I got some hands-on time with HTC’s newest smartphones, the Desire, Legend, and HD Mini. I also got to play with the spruced up Sense user interface, which will run on all three phones. Overall, I was quite impressed: HTC is truly one of the top phone manufacturers [...]

The iBook store, the marketplace for electronic books on Apple’s forthcoming iPad, will sell e-books wrapped in digital rights management software, according to sources quoted in the L.A. Times. Apple phased out DRM songs from the iTunes store a year ago, but a majority of publishers are expected to use FairPlay copy protection software for [...]

When Samsung announced that it was developing its own mobile operating system, one question came to mind: Do we really need another mobile OS? Whether we do or not, Samsung’s Bada OS has made its debut at Mobile World Congress on the new Samsung Wave handset. While I’m not yet sold on the software, the [...]

Windows 8, the theoretical next version of Microsoft’s ubiquitous OS, will be different from what has been expected of the platform, according to a cached version of a Microsoft blog post.
The Google-cached version of a January 31 blog on MSDN, entitled, “What’s in store for the next Windows?” provided a limited glimpse of what [...]

It’ll be hard for News Corp. to put a positive spin on the departure of MySpace Chief Executive Owen Van Natta, who’s quitting after less than ten months on the job.

The official reasons for Van Natta’s resigning are vague, but the Los Angeles Times reports that the MySpace chief often clashed with News Corp., and [...]

Contrary to its reputation for emptying wallets, Apple has been on a price-chopping spree. First came reports that if iPad sales tank, Apple would lower prices to regain already waning consumer buzz. Now Apple is considering lowering the cost of iTunes TV show downloads to $1, according to the Financial Times.
Discounted TV shows should [...]

YouTube today introduced a new content filter that helps users screen out offensive content, such as news videos with graphic violence, or sexually suggestive clips that don’t exceed the service’s Community Guidelines. The optional filter, named Safety Mode, also hides all text comments by default.

Google’s YouTube has long banned family-unfriendly content, including pornography and videos [...]

Norwegian software maker Opera is mounting pressure on Apple’s tight-fisted App store, in the hope its iPhone Web browser will get approved. Opera announced on Wednesday it would launch a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone next week, which will offer faster download speeds.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, next week, [...]

One day after its launch, privacy concerns have been raised about Google’s new Gmail-based social-networking tool, Buzz.
At issue is a feature that compiles a list of the Gmail contacts who users most frequently e-mail or chat with. Buzz automatically starts following these people and makes the list public, meaning strangers can see who Buzz users [...]