CEO envisions Verizon 4G as home internet option
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is likely none too pleased with the team responsible for writing a presentation he gave at a recent investor conference. In …
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New HTC Knight images suggest imminent release
An excited HTCPedia Shop just emailed us several times to show off a handful of new HTC Knight images it received from one of its …
AT&T responds to Consumer Reports beating, cites A+ rating from BBB
AT&T was dragged over the coals yesterday following the revelation that Consumer Reports readers think AT&T is the worst carrier in the U.S. The bruised …
Google demos Chrome OS, announces partnership with Verizon Wireless
Google held a special event on Tuesday to show off progress made over the course of the last year with its Chrome line of products. …
Analyst sees solid demand for BlackBerry Torch; PlayBook sales to be unimpressive
In a note to investors Monday, Barclays Capital analyst Jeff Kvaal restated his “overweight” rating and set an $85 target for shares of RIM’s stock. …
iPad 2 to ship from Foxconn in February
A new report Tuesday morning suggests Apple has notified Foxconn, its next-generation iPad manufacturer, that initial shipments will commence in the next 100 days. The …
Amazon.com working on streaming service to combat Netflix
According to an unconfirmed report in The Wall Street Journal Monday, Amazon.com is in the early stages of developing a subscription streaming service that will …
Windows Phone 7 copy / paste captured on video
Reports of a Windows Phone 7 OS update trickling out to developer phones first surfaced over the weekend. As part of that update, it looks …
Verizon Wireless may pay to keep Sprint, T-Mobile away from Apple’s iPhone
Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is never shy when it comes to disseminating Apple-related suppositions, and he had quite the interesting tidbit for investors on …
AT&T is the worst carrier in the U.S. according to Consumer Reports
Among the top carriers in the U.S., AT&T is the worst by a healthy margin. The news comes from this year’s Consumer Reports reader survey, …
Mac App Store to launch December 13th?
A new rumor cites an anonymous “inside source” in suggesting that Apple plans to launch its Mac App Store one week from today, on December …
Pandora has a change of heart; no Windows Phone 7 app planned [Updated]
Back in March of this year, Microsoft proudly announced that Pandora would be one of its big-name Windows Phone 7 launch partners. In an interesting …
Nexus S appears on Google website; launches December 16th, starts at $199 [Updated]
We’re still waiting on a formal announcement, but considering the Nexus S has already been shown off by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, why not just …
ASUS E600 Windows Phone 7 handset approved by FCC
Among a number of oddities surrounding Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch was the lack of presence from ASUS. After all, ASUS built the very first …
New PlayStation Phone videos show PlayStation app
New videos of the still unannounced Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone emerged Friday, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming gaming phone. Codenamed Zeus, …
Blizzard GM leaves company after game roadmap and user data leak
Following one of the largest leaks in game developer history, Blizzard China General Manager Ye Weilun has left the company for reasons that have not …
Microsoft employees begin receiving free Windows Phones
Back in October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the company would be handing out free Windows Phones to each of its 89,000 employees. The …
RadioShack takes $50 off Apple’s iPhone 4 and 3GS
RadioShack announced a limited-time promotion on Friday that offers a $50 discount on Apple’s iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS. The promotion applies to brand new …
Motorola DROID 2 allegedly explodes in man’s ear
According to a report from a local Dallas-Forth Worth Fox affiliate, a man was injured Thursday morning when his Motorola DROID 2 allegedly exploded next …
Beezz becomes first Window Phone 7 Twitter client with push notification support
Beezz, an emerging Twitter client for the Windows Phone 7 OS, will soon become the first Twitter app to support push notifications on Microsoft’s new …
Samsung Galaxy Tab sales top 1 million units
Less than two months after the Galaxy Tab first became available, Samsung announced that global sales of its Android tablet have surpassed the 1 million …
Apple releases new build of OS X 10.6.6 to developers
Apple released a new beta of its Snow Leopard operating system to developers on Thursday. OS X 10.6.6 beta 2 comes almost a month after …
LimeWire abandons hope, prepares to close music store
A new report Thursday suggests that legendary piracy pioneer LimeWire may soon call it quits. LimeWire was hardly the first network of its kind, but …
Gowalla iPhone app adds check-in support Foursquare, Facebook, more
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. As the mobile check-in game get more popular — and thus, more annoying — with each passing day, …
HTC repsonds to HD7 ‘death grip’ claims
The hubbub hardly registered a blip on most people’s radar screens, but HTC recently found itself fielding some “death grip” claims related to its HD7 …
HTC VP says Windows Phone 7 sales look good; currently evaluating tablet market
A report from DigiTimes Thursday morning contains a few interesting tidbits from a talkative HTC executive. Jack Tong, vice president of HTC Asia, purportedly discussed …
Motorola CEO talks smartphones, tablets and 4G; alludes to Q1 Verizon iPhone launch
Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha delivered a keynote yesterday at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference, and it was quite a doozy. Topics covered included the …
RIM acquires The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the SWAT team of UI design
RIM’s upcoming QNX-based OS is about to get a swift kick in the UI, as the company announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe on …
Netflix to stream more first-run movies thanks to deal with FilmDistrict
Netflix announced a new deal Wednesday that will bring much needed additional first-run theatrical films to its streaming video service in 2011. Netflix has inked …
Microsoft extends olive branch to Windows Phone 7 unlockers
In an effort to thwart unauthorized efforts to unlock or jailbreak devices running Windows Phone 7, Microsoft took a rather unorthodox approach. Rather than sending …
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