Yet another sign that Galaxy S5 will be a massive hit for Samsung
Surprise, surprise: A lot of people are interested in buying Samsung’s Galaxy S5. SamMobile notices that T-Mobile senior product manager Desmond Smith has tweeted out …
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Google’s Schmidt predicts benevolent, ‘omnipresent’ robot overlords
What will Google’s robots have in common with Google+? Apparently they’ll be everywhere and you won’t be able to escape them. Bloomberg reports that Google …
This app will put your love of making quick money to the ultimate test
Who doesn’t love making money while doing little to no actual work? The answer is, “No one.” However, some ways of making quick money are …
Revealed: Everything you need to bring Google Fiber to your city
Do you want Google Fiber to come to your city? Well get in line: There are plenty of other cities that want it as well. …
Sorry, Mr. Legere: Yet another study finds Verizon is thumping your network
T-Mobile has done a lot of terrific things ever since John Legere took over as CEO. The company’s early upgrade plans have set new standards …
New benchmark confirms NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 blows every other smartphone chip out of the water
We’d seen some early benchmarks suggesting that NVIDIA’s new Tegra K1 system on a chip would absolutely crush the performance of any other SoC on …
This could very well be the man who really created Bitcoin
According to Bitcoin lore, the cryptocurrency got its humble beginnings in a white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” written by a man …
Is Windows 9 Microsoft’s secret weapon to get people to dump XP?
As we mentioned earlier this week, Microsoft has a problem because a huge chunk of Windows XP stragglers still aren’t upgrading to Windows 7 or …
One graph shows the slow death of big box electronics stores
Amazon and other online retailers are slowly bleeding big-box electronics stores to death, a fact made all the more obvious this week when RadioShack announced that …
Samsung’s Google Glass rival might turn your whole hand into a keyboard
We’ve known for a while now that Samsung has been working on its own wearable computer headset that will be similar in a lot of …
New report suggests Ballmer screamed his way out of a job
By his own admission, outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is “big, bald and loud.” These are traits that have helped him impose his will at Microsoft …
Why Android users shouldn’t worry (too much) about malware
So we know that malware developers absolutely love targeting Android since it’s not only the most widely used mobile operating system in the world but …
Legere: Study calling T-Mobile the worst network is ‘slanted,’ ‘out of date’
You didn’t think T-Mobile CEO John Legere was going to take a new study that trashed his company’s wireless network lying down, did you? RootMetrics …
The Sprint-T-Mobile merger has been put on ice
It figures: Just when we were starting to see one good reason for Sprint to acquire T-Mobile, the whole transaction has been put on ice. …
Here’s yet another way Samsung is stomping out all Android rivals
When people talk about Android phones these days, there’s a good chance they’re really referring to Samsung and one of its many, many, many Galaxy …
New leak shows All New HTC One’s dual cameras up close and personal
There seems to be nothing that HTC can do to stop detail pictures of The All-New HTC One from leaking out. @evleaks has now posted …
The one good reason to support a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
I’ve long been a skeptic about Sprint and T-Mobile merging, mostly because Sprint mergers have been the kisses of death for once-promising wireless carriers such …
This is why Verizon gets away with charging customers more money
Verizon has been the one carrier that’s most resisted the T-Mobile-led wireless pricing wars of the past few months and now we can see why. …
The cost of online privacy: $2,200 a year
Free apps and services have a high price for some users. Take Julia Angwin, a senior reporter at ProPublica who writes in The New York Times that …
Man who helped draw up U.K.’s porn filters is being investigated for child pornography
To say that the U.K.’s Internet porn filter policy has been a predictably hilarious disaster would be understating things. The filters have blocked U.K. web users’ …
There’s no end in sight to the PC market bloodbath
2013 was a truly horrible year for PC sales and 2014 is shaping up to be terrible as well. The latest report from IDC projects …
Chen says there’s a 50% chance his BlackBerry comeback plan fails
One of the things that’s been the most interesting about new BlackBerry CEO John Chen is that he’s been refreshingly blunt about some of the …
Google plans to make the world’s best mobile browser even better
Google’s Chrome mobile browser is the best mobile web browser we’ve used and it looks like Google is about to make it even better. DroidLife …
How Samsung plans to make sure driving with the Galaxy S5 won’t kill you
If there’s one thing that’s even stupider than people who drive while watching videos on Google Glass, it’s people who drive while watching videos on …
Apple has a major opportunity to invade Samsung’s turf
For the past couple of years, Samsung has been aggressively making moves to erode Apple’s market share in both smartphones and tablets by pumping out …
Ballmer owns up to blowing it with Windows Phone
By the time Windows Phone 8 made Microsoft’s mobile platform a real competitor in 2012, the iPhone had been on the market for five years …
Apple wins patent for wildest iPhone design you’ll ever see
Meet the iPhone of the (possible) future. Patently Apple notices that Apple has won a patent for a radical new iPhone design that imagines a …
The worst argument for the Comcast-TWC merger you’ll ever read
If you ever want to find a skull-crushingly stupid opinion on anything, you normally need look no further than articles written by assorted Forbes contributors. …
Sprint chairman’s plan to win America’s heart: Bash Verizon and AT&T
SoftBank CEO and Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son knows that he has a lot of work to do convincing a skeptical public that his company should be …
How not to leak a top-secret flagship smartphone
On Monday, a leaked video appeared showing The All New HTC One in all its dual-camera, metal unibody, BoomSound-equipped glory. However, the leaker made a …
