Nokia again rumored to sell smartphone business to Microsoft
Rumors again surfaced on Wednesday suggesting that Nokia plans to sell its smartphone business to Microsoft. Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, issued a report to clients …
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Leak reveals specs, images of LG Prada 3.0 smartphone
LG’s first Prada phone set a precedent. It won design awards even before it was officially revealed to the public and it was among the …
MacBook Pro rumored to get Retina-like resolution bump
Apple may currently be prepping a huge display upgrade for its MacBook Pro line of notebook computers that would be on par with the bump …
Google Voice calls within U.S. and Canada free for another year
Google on Tuesday announced that calls placed within the United States and Canada using Google Voice will continue to be free through the end of …
Amazon to sell 6 million Kindle Fire tablets, 8 million eReaders in Q4
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a smash hit, with fourth-quarter sales that may exceed even the most lofty estimates reported ahead of the tablet’s recent launch. …
Nokia exec says iPhone is boring, Android is too complex
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is a breath of fresh air in a crowded smartphone market riddled with boring iPhones and overcomplicated Android handsets. Nokia Entertainment Global director …
Android ranked most ‘closed’ open source OS [infographic]
A new report has ranked Google’s Android operating system the most “closed” open source platform among eight major open source projects. VisionMobile on Monday published The …
Apple and Google dominate smartphone space while others scramble
Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iOS dominated the U.S. smartphone space in 2011 while a number of companies that helped shape the market as we …
Barnes & Noble Nook Color update brings Netflix, other Nook Tablet features
Barnes & Noble’s previous-generation Nook slate is getting an update beginning today that will add a number of features from the new Nook Tablet to …
Apple releases iTunes 10.5.2 with iTunes Match improvements
Apple on Monday released a new update for its iTunes software. ITunes 10.5.2 adds a number of enhancements for iTunes Match, and it includes several …
ASUS Transformer Prime launch delayed indefinitely, report says [updated]
ASUS has reportedly delayed the launch of its highly anticipated Transformer Prime convertible tablet. ASUS’s new tablet was expected to launch this week but Wi-Fi …
Xbox 360 crushes PlayStation 3, Wii in November sales
Sales of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console trounced the competition in November, nearly doubling PlayStation 3 sales and sales of Nintendo’s Wii console. According to November …
Samsung cell phone sales top 300 million units in 2011 for first time
For the first time in the South Korea-based electronics giant’s storied history, annual sales of Samsung’s cell phones have topped 300 million units, the company …
Facebook tops Google’s own offerings to become most popular Android app
Beating out popular own-brand apps like Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube, Facebook holds the title as the most actively used Android app. Market …
Apple’s Mac App Store passes 100 million downloads
Apple’s Mac App Store hasn’t changed the industry quite like its iOS App Store did three years ago, but the Cupertino-based company on Monday announced that …
iPad 3 said to launch in March or April
Apple’s next-generation iPad tablet will reportedly launch between mid-March and mid-April next year according to a new report. Citing anonymous sources in Apple’s component supply …
All AT&T iPhones on sale at RadioShack starting Sunday
BGR has learned that RadioShack will be offering a limited-time sale on all AT&T iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 models beginning Sunday, December 11th. The …
Nook Tablet shipments total 1 million units, report claims
Barnes & Noble’s manufacturing partners have now shipped a total of 1 million new Nook Tablets according to a recent report. Unveiled early last month …
ASUS to debut Windows 8 ultrabook with swiveling touchscreen at Computex 2012
ASUS reportedly has plans to unveil a convertible ultrabook running Microsoft’s next-generation Windows 8 operating system at the annual Computex trade show in Taiwan next …
Production of Apple’s 30-month-old iPhone 3GS to hit 2 million units in Q4
Apple’s manufacturing partners are expected to build 2 million iPhone 3GS handsets in the fourth quarter. Thursday of this week marked exactly two and a …
HP cuts its losses, makes webOS open source
Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced that is is contributing its webOS platform to the open source software community. The company confirmed that it would not build …
AT&T refutes reports that it throttles tiered data plans
AT&T on Friday responded to claims that it throttles the data speeds of smartphone users on tiered data plans once their monthly data allotment has been surpassed. …
Android tablets still unwanted? Honeycomb makes up just 1% of Android usage, study finds
Android Honeycomb, first announced by Google at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, is now widely available across dozens of Android tablet models. As …
Sales of Apple’s iPhone, iPad banned by German court [updated]
A ruling handed down on Friday by the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany could see sales of Apple’s iOS devices banned across Europe. The judgement …
Samsung scores another win as Australian tablet ban is overturned
A ban that prevented Samsung’s local subsidiaries from marketing and selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia was lifted on Friday, marking another victory …
Spotify takes on Pandora with Spotify Radio
Spotify on Friday unveiled Spotify Radio, a new service similar to Pandora that will roll out as an extension to the company’s desktop client. The service allows …
Android, BlackBerry users want Apple’s iPad over like-branded tablets, study finds
Despite a wide selection of Android tablets as well as an own-brand offering from Research In Motion, Android and BlackBerry smartphone users prefer Apple’s iPad …
Component orders from Nokia to grow 20% in 2012 on strong Lumia demand
Component suppliers in Taiwan expect orders from Nokia to grow 20% in 2012 as demand for Nokia’s Lumia smartphones increases. DigiTimes cites unnamed industry sources …
More than a million mobile apps now available across major platforms
More than one million mobile applications are now available across the top-four mobile platforms according to analytics company Mobilewalla. The firm said recently that it anticipated the …
Samsung loses bid to block iPhone 4S sales in France
A French court on Thursday decided against issuing an injunction that would have barred Apple from selling the iPhone 4S in France, Bloomberg reports. The …
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