Verizon customers can customize their Moto X starting on November 11th
Good news, Verizon customers: Soon you’ll be able to buy the same wood-patterned Moto X that AT&T customers have enjoyed for months. Droid Life’s sources …
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How to stop Google from automatically using your picture as caller ID
Google this week announced that it would start integrating Android users’ Google+ accounts more deeply into its mobile platform, which means that users’ Google+ profile …
Gigabit fiber goes to Hollywood
Homes and business in Los Angeles will soon be living in the digital fast lane. As Ars Technica reports, Los Angeles plans to issue a …
Video: Sony tears down the PlayStation 4, shows off killer hardware
Sony thinks you’ll like the PlayStation 4 so much that it’s willing to rip one apart just to show you why. Wired went to Sony’s …
Google engineers rip NSA, compare themselves to heroic Hobbits
Google employees’ anger at the National Security Agency has officially grown to Tolkien-sized epic proportions. GigaOM has rounded up some choice quotes from Google engineers …
CIA reportedly pays AT&T $10 million a year to access calling records [updated]
Maybe Google, Microsoft and Apple would be less upset about how the National Security Agency’s data surveillance tactics are hurting their reputations if the government …
HTC One sequel purportedly pictured in leak
The followup to HTC’s well-reviewed HTC One flagship phone — which we hope will not be called the HTC One 2 — is apparently in …
Apple to reportedly start offering in-store iPhone display repairs
Have a cracked iPhone screen? Apple feels your pain. According to 9to5Mac’s sources, Apple will soon start offering to replace customers’ cracked iPhone displays in …
The Moto X hasn’t stopped Motorola’s slide into irrelevancy
All of Google’s marketing power hasn’t yet helped Motorola stop its slide in the American smartphone market. The latest numbers from comScore show that Motorola’s …
Samsung chief vows to have foldable displays by 2015
The Galaxy Round is just a warmup act. Per Engadget, it seems that Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun has vowed that the company will release mobile …
Another one-time Microsoft insider urges company to ditch Bing, Xbox
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen isn’t the only longtime Microsoft associate who wants the company to dump Bing and the Xbox. Barron’s has flagged some more …
Android is generating $2 billion a year… for Microsoft
Microsoft would love to sell more Windows Phones but you get the feeling that it doesn’t mind seeing Android do well either, especially if it …
Samsung’s big ambitions: Smartphones with 560 ppi in 2014, 4K displays in 2015
Samsung phones already have some of the best displays out there and they’re going to get a lot better next year. AndroidBeat notes that Samsung …
WSJ: Apple is inching away from Foxconn, adding new suppliers
Samsung isn’t the only supplier that Apple is trying to rely less upon these days. Unnamed sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Apple is expanding …
Elop reportedly a finalist to become Microsoft CEO
Stephen Elop isn’t out of the running for Microsoft CEO just yet. Unnamed sources tell Reuters that Microsoft has cut its shortlist of potential CEOs …
Android’s adoption rate is unprecedented in tech history
The first Android phone came out more than a year after Apple launched the first iPhone but Google’s mobile platform has arguably had an even …
Charter CEO ‘surprised’ customers are shunning his pay TV service
Cable CEOs don’t seem to understand why more and more customers are shunning their pay TV services. The Wall Street Journal reports that Charter Communications CEO Tom …
What BlackBerry may have up its sleeve for ‘Plan C’
Very little has gone as planned for BlackBerry this year. The company’s Plan A was to vault itself back into competition with iOS and Android …
Apple spills the dirt on how it deals with the NSA
Like many companies out there, Apple has become frustrated by the restrictions that the United States government has placed on what it can disclose about …
How Microsoft’s brute financial force will bring apps to Windows Phone
Microsoft has always had one big advantage over BlackBerry in its quest to establish Windows Phone as the world’s No. 3 mobile operating system: Giant …
Canadian government reportedly nixed Lenovo’s BlackBerry bid
It looks like Chinese electronics giant Lenovo really was interested in BlackBerry after all. The Globe and Mail reports that although Lenovo was considering making …
Why the iPad Air could be a major cash cow for Apple
Apple’s margins could get a welcome boost from the iPad Air. AllThingsD reports that research firm IHS has done a bill-of-materials analysis for the iPad …
New book says Steve Jobs saw the iPad as Android repellant
Apple’s iPhone may have forever changed the world of mobile communications but by 2009 Apple was starting to face some serious competition in the smartphone …
HTC’s downward revenue spiral to continue in Q4
HTC is apparently tired of seeing BlackBerry hog the spotlight reserved for bad news about smartphone manufacturers. Per The Wall Street Journal, HTC on Tuesday …
‘Uncarrier’ boom: T-Mobile adds 1 million net customers in Q3
Get ready for some more John Legere trash talk because T-Mobile’s “uncarrier revolution” is still going strong. T-Mobile reported on Tuesday that it had a …
Nokia helps Windows Phone overtake iOS in key European market
Don’t look now, but Windows Phone is gaining some serious momentum in Europe. The latest numbers from Kantar Worldpanel show that Windows Phone has actually …
Valve shows off first Steam Machine prototypes
Valve really is serious about competing with the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 after all. The Seattle Times went to Valve’s offices in Bellevue, …
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen may be pushing firm to ditch Bing, Xbox
As we’ve observed recently, Microsoft has really become a tale of two companies: An unstoppable juggernaut in the enterprise cloud and software market and a …
BlackBerry has no plans to shut down its handset business
BlackBerry’s future is completely up in the air right now but it will apparently still include making handsets. Reuters reports that BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen …
Samsung shows off its wild concepts for flexible screen devices
Samsung’s Galaxy Round was an underwhelming first attempt at making a device with a curved display but the company’s future flexible display devices might be …
