Facebook has admitted that growing mobile phone use could hurt future revenue Facebook has launched its own app store to promote mobile programs that operate using the social network. The company said the App Center will become the "new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something" and other titles. Developers will have the ability to charge a fee for apps sold...

Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone - the Galaxy S3. The handset has a 4.8 inch (12.2cm) screen, an increase on the 4.3 inch screen of its predecessor. The device is perceived to be critical to how people view both Samsung's brand and the Android system it runs. Analysts say the popularity of the previous Galaxy - the S2 - was a...

Recently I tried to do a Google search for a wine to pair with swordfish, and it was pretty much a disaster (first world problems, I know, but still.) The problem is, web search results for certain topics are just overloaded with dummy websites with little to no valuable content, many of which have utilized “search engine optimization” (SEO) tactics....

This is a rather beautiful concept for what the next-gen iPhone could look like, courtesy of French designer Antoine Brieux. . It’s fanciful stuff, of course, featuring a Liquid Metal casing, but what I find most interesting is this idea that the home button could be replaced with a “virtual home button” that displays on a larger 4.5-inch widescreen display. Since there’d...

Mobile phones running an operating system developed by makers of the Firefox web browser will go on sale in late 2012. The first handsets running Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) software will be available in Brazil on Telefonica Vivo's mobile network. Brazilian tech blog Ztop broke the news but had no details about which firm will make the handsets. Announced in July 2011, B2G...

The internet contributes to 8.3% of the UK economy, a bigger share than for any of the other G20 major countries, a new study suggests. The "internet economy" was worth £121bn in 2010, more than £2,000 per person, researchers at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said. That made it bigger than the healthcare, construction or education sectors. The UK also carries out far...

Apple is boosting security in the iTunes Store and the App Store in an attempt to stop hijacking of Apple accounts, but the unannounced changes are causing some confusion and alarm in the Apple fan base. Introduced Wednesday, the new security measures prompt users to input three security questions and answers. The security questions will be asked whenever a user downloads...

Research in Motion has announced that its BlackBerry 10 Jam for developers will run in early May. In a March 15 entry on the BlackBerry DevBlog, RIM announced that it would host BlackBerry 10 Jam on May 1-3 as a concurrent conference to BlackBerry World, the largest annual gathering for the BlackBerry ecosystem. BlackBerry 10 Jam will be dedicated to developers and is...

About the author; MacNewsWorld columnist Chris Maxcer has been writing about the tech industry since the birth of the email newsletter, and he still remembers the clacking Mac keyboards from high school -- Apple's seed-planting strategy at work. While he enjoys elegant gear and sublime tech, there's something to be said for turning it all off -- or most of it -- to...

Some readers might have caught a quick glimpse of Adobes new Photoshop touch for the iPad 2 during the weekend, the App however was quickly pulled from the store. Now Adobe has finally and officially unveiled its new photo editing app, Photoshop Touch is available now in the App Store for $9.99. Previously Adobe intro ducted the App for Android while promising that the iPad...