From CNET News.com: iPhone owners who use WhatsApp for their instant messaging needs will now have to pay 99 cents a year for the privilege.

Following a new version of WhatsApp for iPhone released on Tuesday, the developer unveiled the new pricing scheme.

Previously, iPhone users...

From DailyTech: With three out of four of the major U.S. wireless carriers rolling out upgrade plans, there was bound to be some heated competition -- and even an exchange of words.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere bashed AT&T's "Next" upgrade plan on Twitter several times over the last 24...

From DailyTech: Nokia is on the verge of releasing another Lumia, but this time, it'll be a low-end model with the largest screen the company has unveiled yet.

Nokia will launch the Lumia 625 in the coming weeks, which is an effort to offer more affordable Windows Phones. The new...

From CNET News.com: Apple could be treading on Microsoft's territory before long.

Apple has offered $280 million to acquire Primesense, an Israel-based 3D-sensor company, the newspaper Calcalist reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the negotiations. According to that report...

From DailyTech: Acer is shying away from the use of Thunderbolt and will instead focus on USB for future machines.

According to Acer, Thunderbolt is for more high-end PCs and has become much too expensive. USB, on the other hand, has had a performance boost and offers more bang for...

From DailyTech: BlackBerry, Ltd. (TSE:BB) is treading water financially, as it continues to spin its wheels at the herculean task of producing an industry-leading operating system on what is a lean budget compared to deep-pocketed competitors like Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple, Inc....

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), has announced selected preliminary financial results for the first quarter ended May 31, 2013. The company blamed tight supply of NAND flash memory for its results, but said that...

From X-bit Labs: Modern smartphones with their vast capabilities define modern lives. At a press event in the U.S., Samsung Electronics has demonstrated a video with its vision for the smartphone of tomorrow. Perhaps, the company has also given a glimpse into a part of our life...

From CNET News.com: Apple and Samsung's relationship is apparently not so strained as to prevent the South Korean electronics giant from providing the chips that will power future iPhones, a recent report claimed.

Samsung will supply Apple with A9 chips based on a 14-nanometer...

From DailyTech: Hulu's co-owners have taken the "for sale" sign off of the video streaming service and decided to pour more money into it instead.

NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company -- which co-own Hulu -- have decided not to sell Hulu afterall. Instead...