Bowing to market pressures and customer demand for access to the full breadth of Android apps, Barnes & Noble has made the bold move of adding the Google Play store to its two latest tablets, the Nook HD and Nook HD+. The free software update, which also includes the Chrome Web browser, doesn't turn the company's tablets into true "open" Android de

The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is now officially available on AT&T The struggling manufacturer — which is hopeful its new flagship device will ignite a company resurgence — announced on Friday the Z10 can finally be activated on AT&T. It costs $199 with a two-year contract. BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM), also sent a twee

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is here! Check out the official pictures, and see how it looks like a phone on one side and a camera on the other. The S4 Zoom is a camera-focused spin-off of the smash hit Samsung Galaxy S4, starting with the Android smart phone and adding a whacking great optical zoom lens on the front. . A 10x optical zoom lens, no less. T

Acer announced new mobile products running Google Android and Microsoft Windows 8. The company showed off the $169 Aspire A1, which runs Android and is meant for one-handed use. The new Aspire P3 is a convertible Windows 8 Ultrabook that works as a tablet or laptop due to a unique hinged dock with keyboard. The new A1 is targeted to budget-consciou

Best tips for Attracting More Followers on Instagram 1. “The biggest thing you can do is post good content.” “All the principles that have applied to photography for the last one hundred years apply on Instagram,” said Barnett, but the application itself has two notable limitations: First, because you’ll be using an iPhone or an Android r

For all our tech wizardry, things can still go wrong — and do. Frequently. We haven't, for example, managed to come up with a battery that can cope with heavy smartphone demands for more than a day or so, and still be a reasonable size. Gridcase thinks it may have a solution; for the iPhone, at least. For those last-minute power emergencies, it h

The Chromebook series was launched in 2011 as a small, simple, affordable and always-connected notebook running Chrome OS, Google's browser-centric operating system that distinguishes it from a typical, now near-obsolete netbook. Its unconventional software and generally low SSD storage options, however, have so far limited the Chromebook’s appea

You might be surprised to learn that there is still huge a percentage of smartphone users that have not heard of Whatsapp, and it’s easy to see why this is one of the best Android apps for messaging, if not the best. Maybe that will get your attention as to who this San Francisco startup is? It wasn’t long ago that Whatsapp came under the radar

Which apps were able to hold our attention all year long Every week, we give you a rundown of the top-downloaded apps as well as a couple of our favorites. It stands to follow that now, at the end of the year, we'd recap our most-loved apps. Whether we use them every day or only occasionally but still love them, these are our top ten for the year.

LG plans to unveil a flexible OLED smartphone for Q4 A flexible OLED display inside protective covering LG vice president of mobile, Yoon Bu-hyun, said that his company has plans to launch a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter. According to the Journal, he failed to say what other features it'll have and where it will be of