According to a report on the TorrentFreak website, file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has moved its servers out of Sweden, and shifted them to two safer havens - Norway and Spain.

At the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Plastic card payment firm MasterCard unveiled the mobile point of sale (MPOS) technology, which has already been rolled out in Kenya in cooperation with Equity Bank.

In a highly noteworthy move which will pave the way for travellers across East Asia to use their mobile handsets for travel as well as payments, common standards for touch-card technology have recently been agreed upon by three bigwig mobile operators in China, Japan, and Korea.

In a move which will mark the first US release of Samsung Electronics' flagship Galaxy smartphone in three years, the company recently revealed that it will launch its highly-awaited new Galaxy S handset - the Galaxy S IV - in New York on March 14.

At its Sunday press conference at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, Spain, Mozilla - the not-for-profit organisation behind the Firefox web browser - announced that it will be launching mobile handsets running its own mobile-devices OS, the Firefox OS.

At its Sunday press conference, a day ahead of the official opening of the four-day 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, China-based device manufacturer Huawei Technologies unveiled its latest smartphone - the Ascend P2; which, as per the company's claims, is "the world's fastest smartphone."

After having released an official tease of its new 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro handset last week, LG Electronics revealed in a Monday announcement that the new handset will hit the South Korean markets this week, and will be available in Japan in April.

In a recent announcement, online music service Rdio has revealed that the deal which enables its US users to access to free music streaming for a six-month period has now been extended to a number of countries, which comprise almost all the countries where the service is accessible.