Smartphone life shakes up website world

Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers.

Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers.

Leading carrier Smart Communications will phase out all feature phones from its postpaid plans amid the increasing demand and declining prices of smartphones.

Global smartphone innovator Samsung eases the way busy people, like popular multimedia personality Bianca Gonzalez, organize their day-to-day tasks with the unique features of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.

Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its first quarter profit jumped to a record high as smartphone sales remained strong despite the April launch of an updated version of its flagship Galaxy phone.

I’ve seen Android phones get better and more powerful over the years, as Google and phone manufacturers pack devices with more and more features. There comes a time, though, when less is more. I’m afraid we’ve reached that time.

Taiwanese authorities said Monday they had launched an investigation into allegations that South Korean tech giant Samsung hired students to post malicious comments about local rival HTC online.

If you own a mobile phone and spend sunrise to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana’s capital, then Iddrisu Mohammed wants you to be his spy.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion will launch its new touchscreen smartphone in the US with AT&T on March 22. The release will come several weeks after RIM launched the much-delayed devices elsewhere.

LG Electronics on Monday set a global sales target of 40 million smartphones for 2013, as the South Korean firm seeks to expand its presence in a market dominated by bigger rivals such as Samsung.

China’s Huawei, the number three smartphone maker behind giants Samsung and Apple, unveiled Sunday a new mobile, the Ascend P2, which it claims is the fastest in the world.

LG Electronics Inc. said its new smartphone with a full high-definition screen will go on sale in South Korea this week and hit shelves in Japan in April.

A South Korean court is expected to rule Friday on an inheritance battle that has rocked the powerful Samsung conglomerate.

Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical “Million Dollar Quartet” and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something that’s long been taboo inside theaters: typing away at her iPhone.