Is Facebook barking up the wrong tree with Home?
Is Facebook doing its homework? We trust that Facebook is analyzing usage stats when deciding which handsets to address with its Home rollout, but it …
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Xbox Infinity vs. PlayStation 4: Is the classic rivalry coming to an end?
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Nokia’s next Lumia could be crushed by upcoming Galaxy S4 Zoom
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Will the IRS take a bite out of Bitcoin?
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New iPhone 5S parts pictured in fresh leak point to upgraded camera
Images of what is claimed to be part of the motherboard from Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5S handset leaked on Thursday. The photos were originally published …
Dekko unveils ‘real-world OS’ that augments reality for devices like Google Glass [video]
It might not be the next iPad, but there is no question that Google Glass is buzzing right now. Google’s connected eyewear has set the …
This is the back of a $640 phone
Last night I posted a tweet that drew some interesting responses. Beside the text “the back of a $640 phone,” I posted an image of …
BlueStacks brings mobile gaming to the big screen with GamePop console; free with $6.99 subscription
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After Apple rumors went nowhere, Facebook now reportedly in talks to buy Waze for $1 billion
Following Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of popular photo-sharing service Instagram, the company is reportedly now considering another billion-dollar deal. According to Israel-based newspaper Calcalist, Facebook …
Sony posts first full-year profit in five years, sees smartphone sales rising 27% in FY2013
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Another blow for Nintendo: Next-gen EA games will skip the Wii U
Things keep getting darker for video game giant Nintendo. The news that the company’s previous-generation Wii console outsold the new Wii U during the first …
Samsung’s 16-megapixel ‘Galaxy S4 Zoom’ to launch in June, rugged ‘Galaxy S4 Activ’ debuts in July
Samsung is reportedly prepping three new variations of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone and they will begin launching in early June, according to a new …
Samsung Galaxy S4: Jack of all trades, still master of just one
The king is dead, long live the king. The Galaxy S4 helped Samsung keep its impossible promise and unlike most products that see the kind of …
Fortune: When it comes to the Apple-Samsung patent war, WSJ misses the point
According to Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, The Wall Street Journal’s recent report suggesting that the smartphone patent wars have been a big bust for all …
Here comes the iPhone 5S: Next-gen iPhone display production to begin next month
Apple’s iPhone 5S is still eagerly awaited despite the expectation that it will be an iterative update similar to the bump from iPhone 4 to …
T-Mobile’s Q1 earnings, revenue dip; 500,000 iPhones sold in under a month
T-Mobile US on Wednesday posted first-quarter financial results for the pre-merger T-Mobile USA, which saw earnings and revenue continue to slide. Adjusted EBITDA of $1.2 billion …
BlackBerry momentum may be slowing as Galaxy S4 sales soar
Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone is now upon us, and early signs are pointing to a big launch. Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley doesn’t …
Apple does it again: iPad mini opens the floodgates for 8-inch tablets
When Apple unveiled the iPad in 2010, smartphone vendors were caught off guard and they rushed to launch similar tablets to take advantage of the …
Google Glass is no iPad
The consumer electronics industry has gotten pretty boring lately. That’s not to say the new products that have debuted recently are boring, but we’re definitely …
Statistical analysis finds Google shuts down 35% of its services
A statistical analysis of Google’s track record has found that more than one out of every three services Google launches ends up being shut down. …
Samsung reportedly prepping ‘Galaxy S4 Zoom’ with 16-megapixel camera
Among the various other smartphones and phablets Samsung will launch this year, the vendor is also readying at least three new variations on its new …
Next iPad mini’s Retina displays may enter mass production next month
Reviewers loved the iPad mini and every indication suggests the smaller Apple slate is selling to consumers quite well. The one item that seems to …
Microsoft sings the Blues
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PC market continued to tumble in April
A recent report suggested Windows 8 may have hurt the declining global PC market rather than helped it, and new inside data points to a …
A new solution for Galaxy S4 storage shortage: AT&T launches 32GB model on May 10th
The latest flagship phone from Samsung is off to a hot start, but some customers felt slighted when they found out that about half of …
Does Google Glass need an etiquette guide? WSJ seems to think so
According to some pundits, Google Glass is a doomed geeky gadget destined to follow the Segway into obscurity. If that’s the case, creating an etiquette …
Android is eating everyone’s lunch in the U.S. – except for Apple’s
The latest U.S. smartphone market share data from comScore shows an interesting twist compared to global data. Fast growth in emerging markets has sent Apple’s …
