News reaches us this afternoon of a small legal storm brewing in Europe between Japanese electronics giant Sony and even-more-giant Korean rival LG, centred around Sony’s apparent use of patented Blu-Ray playback technology inside the Playstation 3.

Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.

a firm by the name of XTR3D is taking hand gesture controls to mobile, enabling today’s smartphones, TVs, PCs and any other device with a front facing camera to capture full 3D motion and translate it to a gesture.

Just last week we brought you word that a company had developed a software solution to allow Android apps to run on MeeGo devices, now it appears similar forces are at work in the world of Blackberry. Several revelations in the past few days are now strongly pointing towards the appearance of a runtime to allow Android apps to be put to work on Blackberry OS.

Monday mornings are hard at the best of times. Imagine how much tougher they’d be if you were to wake up and discover that all your emails were gone. Well if you’re amongst the 0.8% of GMail users that this mishap affects, that could be exactly what happens to you.

CBOSS has always puzzled me. The firm has a prominent booth at every single major tech show, complete with a big stage and a bevy of Russian beauties who periodically do a little dance and pose for photographs with drooling nerds. All well and good, but what the heck does the firm actually do?

Have you ever wondered what you would look like as an android? Wonder no more! Because Google is holding up a magic green mirror, giving us possibly the most useful app for Android so far: Androidify.

Is the Motorola Xoom worth its weight in Gold? At $800 the answer should be yes, but just in case, Moto has produced a real golden version of its super expensive Android Honeycomb tablet, available only to Oscar nominees and one lucky Twitter winner.

Oh when the saints, go marching in, Oh when the saints go marching in … Is anyone else excited about returning to New Orleans for CTIA 2012? I am on board with this sooo much. CTIA’s announcement that next year’s show would return to New Orleans couldn’t have come at a better time for me. [...]

Cor Blimey, the mobile chip space is heating up, as the various players carry out their own little ARM’s race to beef up on performance, mainly through the addition of more cores.