iOS, Windows Phone seen clawing market share back from Android in China
Google’s Android operating system has ruled the roost in China for a while now but research firm IDC thinks that its iron grip on the …
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Apple’s wireless carrier contracts under investigation in France
Quelle surprise! Apple’s dealings with wireless carriers in France have come under investigation. MarketWatch reports that authorities in France are probing Apple’s contracts to determine …
Samsung reportedly plans ‘premium’ line of metal ‘Galaxy F’ phones
Samsung is tired of hearing your cruel barbs about its smartphones being made from cheap-feeling plastic. Korea’s ETNews reports that Samsung plans to release a …
Valve’s vision: The triumph of corporate anarchy
Whether you realize it or not, Valve is about to become a very important player in not just the gaming world but the tech industry …
Nokia accounts for 88% of all Windows Phone handsets in use
New research confirms what we’ve known for a while now: Nokia is really the only company putting effort into developing and marketing Windows Phone devices. …
Fairfax’s BlackBerry bid seen stretching the ‘limits of M&A creativity’
Fairfax Financial’s $4.7 billion offer to take BlackBerry private is fairly unorthodox. In the first place, Fairfax made the offer public without raising anywhere close …
Apple rumored to be working on giant 12-inch iPad
Apple may have missed the boat with the phablet craze but now it may be trying to beat Samsung to the punch by releasing an …
Samsung’s marketing spending could hit $4.5 billion in Q4
The Samsung advertising juggernaut looks like it’s having its biggest year yet. Enders Analysis analyst Benedict Evans has posted a chart on his Twitter account …
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire HDX alongside new $139 Kindle Fire HD
Jeff Bezos is officially done messing around in the tablet wars. Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s releasing two new tablets this fall, the Kindle …
Samsung, LG display businesses declare patent truce
The Apple-Samsung patent battle isn’t the only major patent fight that’s gripped the tech world. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung Display and LG …
Fairfax offer may spark bidding war for BlackBerry patents
We may see a lot of action surrounding BlackBerry over the next 60 days while Fairfax Financial conducts its due diligence and while BlackBerry seeks …
Verizon CEO: Unlimited data plans are a dead end, despite Sprint and T-Mobile
Do you regret giving up your unlimited data plan when you first made the jump to capped 4G LTE services? Well too bad, says Verizon …
What Microsoft can learn from BlackBerry’s big mistake: People like ‘toys’ after all
“Tools, not toys! Tools, not toys!” Does this refrain sound familiar? It’s the same tune that BlackBerry executives whistled in the dark as they insisted …
This is the No.1 reason why Apple is replacing the iPhone 5 with the 5c
When it launched the iPhone 5c this year, Apple broke its long-standing tradition of keeping its most recent high-end iPhone model on the market and …
Elop’s contract reportedly gave him a big incentive to tank Nokia’s stock, sell company
Wild-eyed believers in the Grand Elop Conspiracy might feel a little less crazy this morning. Frequent BGR contributor Tero Kuittinen, writing over at Forbes, points us …
It looks like Fairfax or bust for BlackBerry
Although Fairfax Financial is offering to pay $4.7 billion to acquire BlackBerry and take the company private, it’s still giving the BlackBerry board of directors …
It’s about time: FAA to finally change in-flight electronics rules
It’s taken a long, long time but the Federal Aviation Administration finally looks poised to relax rules on using electronic devices during flights. The New …
BBM for iOS and Android launch delayed for at least a week
When it rains it pours for BlackBerry. Although there has been considerable interest in the new cross-platform version of BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry announced on Monday …
Gold rush: Champagne-colored iPhone fetches $10,000 on eBay
We finally might have found an Apple fan who is sillier than the ones who sat outside during a typhoon just so they wouldn’t lose their …
BlackBerry announces $4.7 billion buyout plan from Fairfax Financial
BlackBerry’s fate is coming into focus. The company announced on Monday that it has signed a letter of intent with a consortium led by Fairfax …
Sorry, Microsoft: The Surface 2 looks dead on arrival
So Microsoft unveiled its Surface 2 tablet on Monday and there were absolutely no big surprises. The device features a 10.6-inch 1080p full-HD display, a Tegra …
Microsoft announces the Surface 2
Microsoft is hoping that the second time’s the charm with its Surface tablet. The company on Monday announced its new Surface 2, a Windows RT …
Apple now letting customers check iPhone availability, pick up devices in stores
It’s taken a while but Apple has now added a feature to its Apple Store website that lets users check for iPhone 5s and iPhone …
Microsoft reportedly announcing Surface mini later this year [updated]
Microsoft isn’t just releasing new versions of the Surface Pro and Surface RT this year. According to Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, Microsoft plans to …
Crime pays: Grand Theft Auto V rakes in $1 billion in three days
Grand Theft Auto V has broken into gamers’ minds and has stolen their hearts. Take Two Interactive, which publishes Rockstar Games’ hugely successful Grand Theft …
Ballmer calls Google a ‘monopoly’ that should come under antitrust scrutiny
Microsoft has been flushing money down the drain trying to make Bing a legitimate threat to Google over the years but outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer …
Apple sticks with Samsung for the A7 chip after all
Apple may not like it but manufacturing partners like Samsung are hard to find. iFixit and Chipworks both teamed up to tear down the iPhone …
BlackBerry announces major job cuts, quarterly net operating loss of $1 billion
Time is running out for BlackBerry. The company announced on Friday that it is cutting 4,500 jobs and that it will report a net operating …
Tim Cook may regret dismissing low-cost smartphones as ‘junk’
The most striking takeaway from Thursday’s big Bloomberg Businessweek interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook was that he views smartphones that are priced in the …
Microsoft to reportedly give Surface 2 same $500 entry price as original Surface RT
If doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity, then Microsoft may have completely lost its mind. …
