South Korea’s regulatory bodies reportedly have taken by force Google offices in the country in what seems to be a repercussion of the search giant’s involuntariness to work with Android investigations.
According to sources familiar with matter who told AllThingsD, the raid took place early last week.
Google refused to comment further on the matter and only said, “We have been cooperating fully with the KFTC’s investigation, working closely with them to address their questions …

Mark Zuckerberg drops from Top 40 Billionaires Index by Bloomberg. (Image: Guillaume Paumier, via Flickr)

Mark Zuckerberg has slipped off the top 40 list of billionaires due to the rapid slump in Facebook’s share price after its initial public offering (IPO) of $100 billion.
Bloomberg finally released its latest Billionaires Index, in which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fell out of the top names of billionaires worldwide.
The list saw Zuckerberg drop by nine percent to $14.7 billion from …

Samsung has announced that its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS implementation on the Galaxy S III is now open source.
Earlier this week, the South Korean phone maker launched its new Galaxy S III flagship smartphone to highly anticipating consumers, and it has inserted several striking hardware specifications into the handset, it also added significant features on top of Google’s Android ICS mobile operating system. Samsung now reveals that it has open sourced its Android 4.0 OS source …

4G, the latest and fastest wireless connectivity available today, will only make us more antisocial, Teliasonera reports.
The Swedish mobile operator introduced the first 4G network in Stockholm in Q4 2009 and offered speeds of up to 10 times faster than its 3G predecessor.
At the Open Mobile Summit in London, Hakan Dahlstrom, President of Mobility at Teliasonera, said that Britons will only allot more time on mobile devices when 4G finally launches in the UK.
Dahlstrom believes that an average …

The rumor mill is turning fast on an upcoming Facebook phone after a report revealed the recruitment of former Apple engineers to revitalize the project.
Facebook-friendly handsets – most of which are phones with dedicated buttons to the world’s largest social networking site – exist, but the company, which recently had its IPO, plans to release a mobile app that is operational on as many smartphones or tablets as possible.
However, Facebook could be looking into a mobile device that …

Samsung Galaxy S III is now the most pre-ordered Android handset of all time. (Image: Samsung Mobile, via bgr)

Vodafone has disclosed that the Samsung Galaxy S3 is now the most pre-ordered Android handset of all time.
The UK mobile network provider said that the South Korean phone maker’s latest flagship, which launched earlier this month, is already breaking new records set by its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S II.
“We’ve been really encouraged by our customers’ …

Google steers clear from Java patent infringement in Android. (Image: Miki Yoshihito, via Flickr / CC)

Google has steered clear from the Java patent infringement case filed by Oracle Corp after the jury were in complete agreement in their verdict that Oracle failed to show incriminating evidence against the use of Java in Google’s mobile operating system, Android.
Oracle’s lawsuit against Google already showed lackluster right after its filing, with long-drawn-out and frequently comic …

Broadcasters sue Dish Network over ad-skipping TV Box. (Image: Dish Network)

Three television broadcasters have filed suits against Dish Network over Dish’s set-top television that lets viewers skip advertisements in TV shows that it records.
The Fox Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System sued the TV box maker and argued that it should make certain the viewing of advertisements on TV. The companies are apprehensive that if viewers would …

HTC Android 4.0 ICS ipdates delayed for Sensation handsets. (Image: HTC)

HTC has brushed up the release of its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update for Sensation handsets, which means owners of the smartphone lineup will have to wait a little longer than expected.
The Taiwanese smartphone maker previously announced that Sensation phones will receive Android 4.0 ICS before March ended, but HTC has now unveiled that the update will not be available until the end of next month. The …

Yahoo Axis: The New Browser from Yahoo or How Haste Makes Waste / image via axis.yahoo.com

Yahoo’s recently launched browser managed the “performance” to receive, from its very beginnings, a black ball in terms of security!
Trying to divert attention from the recent dismissal of its executive director, Scott Thompson, Yahoo hastened to release on the market its new browser – Axis. But the proverb ‘haste makes waste’ proved to be perfectly true in this case, as users quickly passed …