Apple announces the dual-core 1GHz A5 processor
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new 1GHz A5 processor. It improves upon the A4, which can be found in Apple’s iPhone 4 and first-generation iPad. …
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Apple has sold 100 million iPhones, 15 million iPads
Apple’s media event has kicked off as planned, and the company announced that it has shipped over 100 million iPhones. CEO Steve Jobs also noted …
Apple may ship 6.5 million iPads in Q1, 40 million in 2011
Citing sources from within Apple’s supply chain, DigiTimes reports that the tablet titan plans to ship between 6 and 6.5 million iPad tablets in the …
HP calls BlackBerry PlayBook a webOS ripoff; RIM responds
Since we first laid eyes on the new UI RIM was building atop QNX, we’ve said it bears a striking resemblance to the webOS UI …
Apple Store goes down ahead of iPad 2 announcement
Like clockwork, Apple’s online store has been brought down as the team in Cupertino prepares the new pages tablet fans around the world having been …
Convincing iPad 2 images leak ahead of Apple event
Images of what is claimed to be Apple’s second-generation iPad have been published by Chinese site DGtle. The images definitely line up with what we’ve …
Google on the road to repairing bug that wiped out Gmail data
Google has stated that it is in the process of restoring data to accounts affected by a bug that wiped out email and chat history …
Microsoft to demo Windows 8 tablet in June, report claims
According to an unconfirmed report on Monday, Microsoft has plans to give the world its first glimpse of Windows 8 for tablets this summer. Citing …
iPad 3 is the tablet worth getting excited about – not the iPad 2, Apple staffer claims
Set to be unveiled at a media event on Wednesday, the second-generation iPad will apparently be a pretty boring update that isn’t worthy of all …
India appears ready to ban BlackBerry
India’s government reiterated its stance on Research In Motion and other companies providing officials with access to to monitor encrypted data. “It’s not a question …
iPad 2 will have stiff competition this year, analyst thinks
In a note to investors on Tuesday, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White became one of only a few analysts to take a minority stance on …
Steve Jobs was almost knighted in 2009; robbed of honor by Prime Minister
Sir Steven of Cupertino? According to a report in The Telegraph on Tuesday, Steve Jobs was almost given an honorary knighthood in 2009. The legendary …
ShopAlerts brings location-based advertising to AT&T phones
AT&T on Monday announced ShopAlerts, a new mobile advertising service that will introduce location-based ads to the AT&T wireless network. The service, developed by AT&T …
Tablet market to hit $35 billion by 2012, JP Morgan says
If you’re tired of hearing about tablets, we have some bad news for you… they’re not going away any time soon. While repeated failed attempts …
Motorola CEO says 7-inch tablet due this year, again
Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha repeated the company’s plans to …
T-Mobile laughs at iPhone 4’s lack of 4G
At this point, it’s looking like few people actually care about T-Mobile’s “4G” network, real or fake. The carrier continues to push its HSPA+ network …
Apple COO hints at cheaper iPhone, better prepaid plans
In a note to investors on Monday, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi said that Apple is looking to expand its smartphone market share by addressing …
Developer shows off iOS notifications that don’t suck [video]
Simply put, Apple’s iOS notification system is horrible. Terrible. In fact, in our opinion it’s the worst smartphone notification system on the planet. We’ve written …
Amazon Kindle 3G hits AT&T stores starting March 6th
AT&T on Monday announced that it will soon begin selling Amazon’s popular 3G-enabled Kindle eBook reader in its retail locations. Starting March 6th, customers will …
Gmail bug wipes out 150,000 user accounts
Google confirmed on Sunday that a major bug has mysteriously deleted the entire contents from within roughly 150,000 Gmail accounts. Google initially reported the problem …
BlackBerry PlayBook will support Android apps, RIM rep proclaims [video]
BGR exclusively reported in January that Research in Motion was hard at work trying to add support for Android applications to the BlackBerry PlayBook and …
FaceTime for Mac exits beta, costs 99¢ in the Mac App Store
Apple’s FaceTime video chat service for Mac exited beta on Thursday to coincide with the release of the company’s refreshed MacBook Pro line. It also …
Google video visualizes global Android activations
No platform in recent history has grown as fast as Google’s Android OS, and now Google has created a quick video to help us visualize …
HTC ThunderBolt launch next week further supported by Best Buy store’s claim
Following our report from Thursday morning suggesting Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch the HTC ThunderBolt next week, an earlier tweet from a California Best Buy …
Verizon’s 9-1-1 bungle nearly cost woman her life as home burned to ground [video]
It turns out Verizon Wireless may be in more hot water as a result of the 10,000 emergency 9-1-1 calls the carrier dropped during a …
New evidence of Android apps running on BlackBerry phones emerges
Mobile app developer ShopSavvy reports that its Android application has recently been tested on multiple BlackBerry devices. BGR exclusively reported last month that RIM may be …
Froyo goes live for AT&T’s Samsung Captivate
Sprint subscribers may have just been driven further into a frenzy by Samsung’s botched Froyo update for the Epic 4G, but Galaxy S users subscribed …
T-Mobile raises prices on old smartphones
In a move that smacks convention right in the face with the back of its hand, T-Mobile has raised the prices of two old smartphones. Rumors …
HTC ThunderBolt may launch on March 3rd or 4th; unlimited 4G LTE data for $29.99
With February 24th upon us and no storm clouds in sight, it’s a safe bet that we won’t be seeing the ThunderBolt make its highly …
HTC Arrive brings Windows Phone 7 to Sprint on March 20th; $199.99 on contract
Sprint on Thursday announced that it will launch the HTC Arrive next month on March 20th. The carrier teased the device in a series of tweets …
