Apple-Samsung mobile industry stranglehold not seen ending anytime soon
Tired of seeing Apple and Samsung dominate the mobile market place? Well too bad — it looks like they’re going to keep crushing the competition through …
Articles by Brad Reed
Microsoft reportedly testing ‘translucent aluminum’ Surface Watch
The smartwatch race is on. The Verge reports that Microsoft has moved production of its own smartwatch from its Xbox division to its Surface division and …
Apple reportedly goes on iWatch hiring spree
Apple is gearing up for a launch of its iWatch in late 2014 by “aggressively” hiring talent to develop it, unnamed sources tell The Financial Times. …
Cable TV execs start pushing for nationwide duopoly
If there’s one industry that needs less competition, it’s clearly the cable industry. The Wall Street Journal reports that Liberty Media CEO John Malone and …
Netflix in talks for fifth season of Arrested Development
Cue up “The Final Countdown” and start to celebrate: Netflix is looking to bring back Arrested Development for another season. Bloomberg reports that Netflix and …
Nokia will bring Lumia 1020’s killer camera software to earlier models
If you just picked up a high-end Lumia model and are already jealous of the killer camera features that Nokia is adding with the Lumia …
Windows Phone reportedly getting Windows 8.1-style overhaul next year
Now that Microsoft has unveiled its plan to overhaul Windows 8 later this year, you might think that it’s only a matter of time before …
Microsoft sues government for not banning Motorola imports
Microsoft is not messing around anymore when it comes to enforcing patent judgements against Google and Motorola. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft filed a lawsuit against …
Why the Lumia 1020 may be Windows Phone’s breakthrough device
Sometimes an operating system just needs the right device to really get it going — recall what the original Motorola Droid did for Android. ReadWrite’s …
BlackBerry CEO reportedly bringing hammer down on management team
Three key BlackBerry executives have left the company over the past couple of months and many more could soon be shuffling toward the exit as …
Schmidt says Google’s chilly relationship with Apple has started to thaw
It’s no secret that Apple and Google aren’t exactly the best of friends, but Google chairman Eric Schmidt suggested this week that the two companies …
Tiny Minnesota town becomes latest to get gigabit fiber
The fiber revolution is slowly but surely rolling across America. In addition to major cities such as Kansas City and Austin, Tex., smaller communities in …
Kim Dotcom plans to release NSA-proof email, messaging for Mega users
Kim Dotcom is producing a special treat for Mega users who want to communicate without any risk of getting intercepted by the National Security Agency. …
LG shows off thinnest-ever HD LCD panel, just in time for the Optimus G2
LG Display on Thursday gave us a preview of what we can expect from its upcoming smartphones by showing off a 5.2-inch full HD LCD …
Microsoft reportedly plans to slash Surface RT price to $350
In an effort to boost disappointing sales, Microsoft has decided to cut the price of its entry-level Surface RT tablet to just $350, unnamed sources …
Purported Verizon roadmap: Moto X launches August 23rd, HTC One on August 1st
Verizon has been awfully quiet about exactly when it plans to release the HTC One on its network, but a purported Verizon product roadmap obtained by …
Nokia’s strategy for selling the Lumia 1020 makes zero sense
Nokia is justifiably very proud of the work it’s put into the new Lumia 1020 smartphone. As is usually the case with Nokia phones, the …
Microsoft’s major reorganization finally announced
Microsoft’s big reorganization has finally gotten official. AllThingsD has published a memo sent out by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday providing details on the …
Lenovo is now the world’s top PC vendor
It may not be as big of an honor as it was five years ago, but Lenovo can now proudly say that it’s the world’s …
Nokia’s Lumia 1020 still bets the bank on cameras in battle with iPhone, Android
Some things never change: Death, taxes and Nokia’s insistence that camera quality will help it take on the iPhone and Android smartphones. Even though this …
Instagram launches video embedding for all websites
Instagram on Wednesday announced an important new feature that could help its video-sharing service grow by leaps and bounds: embedding onto websites. Instagram’s embedding protocols …
Apple predicted to post almost no revenue growth in fiscal Q3
What a difference a year makes. Last summer Apple was still on top of the world and its stock price was headed for $700. This …
Microsoft teases two new Surface models for 2014
Microsoft isn’t letting disappointing first-generation sales stop it from releasing new versions of its Surface tablet. ZDNet on Wednesday spotted a new Microsoft product roadmap …
T-Mobile is making it tempting to JUMP carriers
I’ve been somewhat skeptical about T-Mobile’s UNcarrier initiative for a while but I really started to warm up to it Wednesday when it announced its …
T-Mobile now has LTE in 73 out of top 100 U.S. markets
T-Mobile executives engaged in some chest-beating on Wednesday when they announced that they’ve now launched LTE services in 116 metropolitan areas in the United States, …
A look at the huge mistakes HTC keeps making
Is there a company out there that shoots itself in the foot as regularly as HTC? Consider that in the past two weeks I’ve had two …
Judge rules Apple violated antitrust law in eBook price-fixing case [updated]
A judge has found that Apple violated federal antitrust laws in an eBooks price-fixing case where the company was accused of leading a conspiracy to …
Apple asks ITC not to ban older iPhone, iPad models
Apple is unsurprisingly not keen on the International Trade Commission’s impending import ban on older iPhone and iPad models. Per AppleInsider, the company has asked …
Windows 8.1 looks to follow Android’s playbook for tracking users
Although Google has a seedy reputation for collecting exhaustive amounts of its users’ data to deliver targeted advertisements, it looks like Microsoft is planning to …
Samsung apes Microsoft’s strategy, throws money at developers for Tizen apps
The market hasn’t exactly been kind to operating systems that aren’t iOS or Android, which is why Microsoft has been smartly offering app developers large …
