Intel passed up one of the greatest opportunities in its history by not agreeing to supply chips for Apple's original iPhone, chipmaker's former CEO Paul Otellini admitted.

VMware Horizon Mobile, VMware's dual persona mobile device software, has become available for on some of Verizon's Android-based smartphones.

The dual persona app creates two operating system instances, one for personal use and another for business use.

Finnish handset maker Nokia's recently announced Lumia 928 and Lumia 925 smartphones boast some incremental improvements over their predecessors.

The Lumia 925 and 928 are smaller as well as lighter than their predecessor Lumia 920. The Lumia 925 is the first smartphone in the series that has received an aluminum body.

Sunnyvale-based chip designer AMD unveiled a new chip dubbed Radeon 8970M, which, as per the company's claims, is the world's fastest laptop GPU.

AMD said that the Radeon 8970M is now only the fastest mobile GPU on Earth but also more efficient than its predecessors. It means the new chip will perform complex calculations faster while also ensuring longer battery life.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung on Monday claimed that it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology that would offer transmitting speeds of up to several hundred times faster than the existing 4G networks.

The company said that the new technology allowed its researchers to transmit more than 1GB of data over a distance of two kilometers per second.

Finnish handset maker Nokia has introduced an affordable touchscreen smartphone for emerging markets, including India.

The Nokia Asha 501 smartphone features a 3-inch screen, a 3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera and a memory capacity of 4GB that can be expanded to 32GB.

A Berlin court on Tuesday invalidated eight of fifteen clauses in Apple's user privacy agreement, saying they deviate too much from German laws.

The court ruled that iPhone-maker could not ask for "global consent" to use user data or information on their geographical locations.