Apple made official their plans for the $100 billion cash hoard they've amassed in quarter after quarter of profits that totaled over 13 billion in calendar Q1 this year. A $2.65 dividend will be issued starting later this year with buybacks for the next three years. The news out of Cupertino comes after several months of investor uncertainty regarding cash on hand and the company's plans for the money. Pri ...

The Galaxy SII is Samsung's current high-end, top of the line smartphone, excluding the Galaxy Nexus & Note, and it will receive android 4.0 with Touchwiz on March 10th. To be ready for the update opportunity you have to install KIES on your PC, allowing you to update your phone, bypassing all the carrier approval stage, but unlike installing  custom ROM, this will not void your warranty and is an offic ...

The iOS 5.1 update promised earlier today has already begun being released across iPods, iPhones and iPads (which are compatible, of course). The update hopes to brings a bunch of bugs fixes, extra Siri support, a redesign of the camera app (good!) and many other new, but small, additions. This is a quick roll-out, and great news for all those people who love software updates! Stay tuned for more tech cover ...

At the Apple announcement in San Francisco today they announced the new iPad. The iPad will cost the same as the iPad 2, (£399 16GB WiFi plus £100 to double the memory) as a well as offering the same storage. Apple paraded the vast array fo new features on the iPad and of them they concentrated on six. The first feature to be announced and probably the most anticipated was the Retina Display, which we have  ...

Thought that simply projecting an image onto a wall and being able to sue that wall of a touch screen was far from the present? Then you're wrong; the latest technology out of the highly advanced Microsoft labs does just tis, and has a demo of a windows Phone esq OS being projected onto a wall while the user interacts with it. Awesome! The projector, which sits on a users shoulder, allows wearers to use the ...

Facebook are to start rapidly rolling out their previously announced 'Messenger' program for Windows, and before long Macs too. This is good news, and the program should be extremely well received if all goes to plan. According to Facebook, the previous leaked versions were mere tests, and these latest iterations are much improved, streamlined versions of the near, if not totally final product. The program ...

Google is working on a competitor to Siri, the reason is because while Google Voice Search is just as functional it lacks the personal aspect created by Siri, and now the latest want by consumers. Google's team are hoping to push the service around the time of the iPad 3 launch, it will work across a variety of devices, definitely most android devices. For along time Google's own voice offering has been bes ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview released earlier this week revealed that there may be 8 SKUs come public release in the fall. Windows 7 was released in 6 different editions: Enterprise, Professional, Home Basic, Home Premium, Starter, and Ultimate- though the versions most widely used and sold at retail were Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. That Microsoft is considering adding a Professional Plus Ed ...

The event is now online,a nd basically it just announces, that the start bar has gone, Xbox Live is here to stay and an array of multitouch gestures. All in days work for Microsoft. It's well worth the watch if you're into Windows in a big way. ARM takes a new precedence as well, but enterprise features in Windows Arm aren't currently available. Furthermore there is still that painful transition between Met ...

The long awaited iPad 3 has been all but confirmed for release in March/April after apple issued the press with images of the invitation for the event, showing a SUPER-HIGH-RES display!!! Any doubts about a retina display iPad have been sunk. The quote on the invitation is, "We have something you really have to see. And touch." This is probably the least mysterious invitation from Apple in the last few year ...

Intel, the PC giant has today at MWC 2012 detailed their plans for their Medfield based phones. These phones will use the efficient x86 architecture which offers performance improvements over a comparably specced ARM processor. Unfortunately for Intel the x86 architecture is incompatible with a large majority of apps as well as running hot. Intel are determined to succeed after Microsoft, intel's long partn ...

Andy Rubin today at MWC confirmed Android's success with a total of 300million android activations or 5 times the population of the UK. Awesome! This sure will inspire developers and is an incredible milestone for the Android OS and Google as a whole. Considering that but a month ago the 250million mark was reached, Android's rate of growth is frankly incredible. The juggernaut that is Android continues to ...

Asus Padfone details have been confirmed, and the latest news suggests that the phone will be of the 4.3inch variety with a qHD Super AMOLED display. Furthermore the phone packs a punch with a Snapdragon S4 dual-core, which although doesn’t sound much compared to the Tegra 3 offers similar performance due to its far more advanced Cortex-A15 cores.  The phone also features an 8MP camera and an astonishing le ...

ZTE haven’t quite matched their bitter rivals Huawei with their quad-core Era handset but it comes close. With a 1.3GHz Tegra 3 alongside a 4.3inch qHD screen and an 8megapixel camera this phones is certainly no slouch but the slower clock speed combined with the lower resolution screen put this phone solidly in the mid-range category. The phone also offers an amazingly solid build familiar to HTC owners, w ...

Phones4U confirm that they will be selling the HTC One X, the new king of the smart phones, as to speak, which was announced yesterday at MWC 2012. The phone sales organisation has already created a page showing its various features, allowing you to pre-register to find out when you can order the device later this year. If you’re interested then you should check it out now on their website. A great phone no ...