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• 10 May 2013

• Feature: What is BT Sport?

  BT has announced its own sports channels, so here's everything you need to know about BT Sport.

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Go digital for last-second gifts this Mother's Day

  I hate to break this to you, but Mother's Day is just a few short days away. And unless you enjoy greater control over the properties of space and time than the rest of us mere mortals, the window of opportunity to find, buy, and ship mom a present is slamming shut.

• 09 May 2013

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

  The combination of highly virtualized environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and driving the need for a new era of dynamic and scalable networks of the future, IDC researchers said in a panel discussion at Interop this week.

• News: PayPal Says It's Time to Ditch Passwords and PINs

  PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop today to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.

• News: Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D

  Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.

• News: Google boosts Glass with Google+, search upgrades

  Google Glass developers and early adopters should be getting a software upgrade within the next week that adds tweaks to Google+, Gmail and search.

• News: Galaxy S4's U.S. version needs added image processor for eye-tracking

  Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition.

• News: A cheaper iPhone doesn't necessarily mean a 'cheap' iPhone

  For a product that has been around a scant six years--an eternity in the field of consumer electronics--the iPhone has had a remarkable run. It has changed the way we think about computing, conquered the mobile market, and transformed Apple from a relative underdog in the PC industry into one of the planet's most profitable and influential enterprises.

• How-Tos: Tech Jargon Buster

  Each month we explain technology terms in plain English. Here's our updated A-Z of technology jargon explained.

• News: Apple regains fifth spot in Chinese smartphone market, shipments soar

  Apple retook its spot as China's fifth largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, as the country's market grew to triple the size of the U.S.'s.

• News: ITV Player launches new Android app for Samsung Galaxy users

  ITV has launched its new ITV Player catch-up service app on Android which is exclusively available for some Samsung Galaxy devices.

• News: Nokia hopes new interface on Asha 501 will prop up phone business

  Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based products at bay.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best smartphone?

  PC Advisor selects the best 5 smartphones available in the UK right now, using our hundreds of mobile phone reviews to choose the best blend of price and performance.

• Test Centre: Best Android phone

  PC Advisor reviews the best Google Android phones you can buy in the UK today.

• News: Mozilla's Firefox OS will also appear on high-end phones

  The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said.

• News: The Kwikset Kevo lock opens at your touch

  Those fancy entry locks with the touch-sensitive numeric keypads are so 2012. Kwikset's new Kevo deadbolt quizzes your iPhone to verify that you're authorized to enter, and then unlocks when you physically touch it.

• 08 May 2013

• News: T-Mobile sells 500,000 iPhone 5 units in three weeks

  It seems that the introduction of the iPhone to its roster of supported devices has been very good for T-Mobile.

• News: San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

  San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.

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