From CNET: LG is aiming to battle other smartphone vendors with a new high-end phone later this year.

The Korean handset maker has been known for its flagship G lineup of phones, with the G3 currently out in the market and the G4 expected to launch in April.

But the company is cooking up something...

From InfoWorld: Closing a gap with other enterprise cloud providers, Google has created a service to facilitate communications across applications that customers build on the company's cloud platform.

The Google Cloud Pub/Sub service, made available as an open beta on Wednesday, is designed for...

From PC World: Microsoft has said previously that its upcoming DirectX 12 API will make your PC more efficient. Now we know by how much: just by using DirectX, executives said, you'll see a 20 percent improvement in your graphics frame rate, and a drop in CPU utilisation to boot.

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From CNET: Softcard, the carrier-backed mobile payments initiative, is shutting down its app after striking a deal to help expand the reach of Google's mobile payments system.

The joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile announced Wednesday it would disable its mobile app and close...

From DailyTech: Fans of Windows Phone (scarce as they may be statistically speaking) have been disappointed over the past year to see Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) largely ignore the high-end market. While a continual stream of low-end releases -- like the Lumia 530 and Lumia 630/635 -- kept Microsofts...

From ComputerWorld: SanDisk has managed to cram 200GB of memory into a MicroSD card. The new card is a 56 percent jump on the current highest capacity MicroSD, a 128GB card.

SanDisk said it managed the higher capacity by using a proprietary design and production process that allows for more bits of...

From InfoWorld: Google today said that it would stop serving updates to Chrome for Android on devices running Android 4.0.x, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), in mid-April.

By the time Google halts updates to Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the three-year-old mobile operating system's...

From PC World: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 OS hasn’t taken the world by storm, but its successor, Windows 10, is off to an encouraging start even before its release.

Only a handful of Windows 10 handsets were on display on the show floor of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, but with...

From CNET: Android Lollipop is gradually making its way onto more devices.

The newest edition of Google's Android Developers Dashboard reveals a 3.3 percent share for Android 5.0. That percentage takes into account all the Android devices that hit the Google Play store during the seven-day period...

From InfoWorld: BlackBerry isn't giving up on the smartphone market, and now hopes to make a mark with the Leap, an all-touch LTE device with a keen price tag.

The company launched the new product on Tuesday at an event in Barcelona, where Mobile World Congress is now in full swing. And just like...