Following reports from Apple news specialist 9to5Mac that iOS 9 will prioritise stability after a turbulent patch of bugginess, the same source reveals that iOS 8.3 and 9 will be offered on a public beta programme.

Remember the battle between LG and Samsung to persuade us we all needed curved phones back in 2013? Neither set consumer interest ablaze. But LG’s latest offering – the G Flex 2 – just might.

The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Nils Muižnieks, has slammed the raft of new mass surveillance counter-terrorism measures spreading across Europe in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen.

Journey back in your mind to a year ago: remember when Facebook offered $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp? Pretty well everyone thought such an offer was little short of crazy (most American pundits hadn’t ever used the messaging app). Now we know it wasn’t so crackers after all: Snapchat is now raising money on a valuation of $20 billion. How come?

Google’s recent move to label websites according to how mobile friendly they are is “a game changer for digital publishers”, a mobile marketing expert has claimed.

Rumours began to spread earlier this month that Google had updated its search algorithm but the speculation looks set to continue: the search titan still hasn’t confirmed that a change has occurred.

When Facebook rolled out its new privacy policy at the end of January, it must have known that it would cause some outrage in Europe. And, sure enough, it has: EU data protection officials have responded by setting up a taskforce to deal with those parts of the policy which it believes are almost certain to break EU privacy laws.

It’s no secret that Apple’s reputation for manufacturing top-drawer hardware and software that “just works” has taken a bit of a battering over the years, thanks largely to its penchant for rapid iOS releases (is it really possible to create glitch-free iOS updates at such a frenetic pace?). But a recent post on industry pillar 9to5Mac strongly suggests that its reputation could be about to be redeemed when iOS 9 debuts.

London-based open-source computer software developer Canonical has given itself what appears to be a mammoth task with the immanent launch in Europe of its first Ubuntu-based smartphone.

If anyone is in any doubt about the global stampede toward accessing digital content on mobile devices, they need only look at a recent development in China: ecommerce giant Alibaba has just invested $590m in the little-known Chinese smartphone developer Meizu.