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• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 1

  By John Cox | 01 June, 2012 16:36

  It's amazing Apple hasn't sunk, given how many purported leaks began spouting blueprints, parts and chips this past week. The iOSphere pulled on its boots and began splashing in the puddles, with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference drawing near.

• Samsung buys Swedish wireless chip company Nanoradio

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 10:32

  Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.

• BYOD's phone number problem

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 May, 2012 22:06

  A simple smartphone number can be an incredibly important corporate asset, but companies will have to give it up in a BYOD scenario.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 30 May, 2012 20:25

  Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2000 to 6000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.

• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 23:37

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 20:53

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Jailbreak of Apple iOS 5.1.1 due 'in days'

  By John Cox | 23 May, 2012 04:26

  Hackers claim to be just days away from jailbreaking Apple devices running iOS 5.1.1, the latest firmware release for iPhones and iPads, letting users load applications from outside of Apple's iTunes App Store.

• Sidecar app for iOS, Android seeks to give smartphone voice calls overdue respect

  By Bob Brown | 22 May, 2012 22:26

  Sidecar, a born-again startup whose founders hail from Internet media services company Real Networks, Tuesday is launching an eponymous app for iPhones and Android smartphones that's designed to make it easier for people to share videos, photos and more while talking on those devices.

• Mobile app standoff: Web app vs. native app

  By Tom Kaneshige | 22 May, 2012 05:33

  Think mobile app, and what do you see?

• Google-Motorola Mobility merger will be done this week

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Now that Google has gotten permission from China's Anti-Monopoly Bureau to acquire Motorola Mobility, the companies are expected to complete their merger by the middle of this week.

• Big cable companies pooling Wi-Fi hotspot resources

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 01:33

  The big cable companies know that if they want to stay relevant in the wireless market, they can't do it on their own.

• Windows 8 Update: there's good news ... and then there's bad news

  By Tim Greene | 22 May, 2012 00:39

  The chief of AT&T Mobility can't wait for Windows 8 tablets to hit the market because they'll fuel demand for Windows phones.

• Android remote access app shootout

  By Howard Wen | 21 May, 2012 21:36

  There are times when accessing another computer remotely can be convenient -- to check on the status of a download or code that is being compiled, to start or stop an application, or to load a document to view it. It can be really helpful to be able to do this from a smartphone or tablet. We tested three services that let you use your Android device to connect to your computer remotely.

• What's missing from the iPhone 5 rumor mill

  By Paul McNamara | 21 May, 2012 14:29

  A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time.

• iPhone 5 rumour roll up for the week ending May 18

  By John Cox | 19 May, 2012 05:28

  Perhaps the Next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.