Michael Bay talks about his epic CES meltdown
Compared to the average Samsung press conference, which might include singing, dancing, acrobatics, an orchestra and other spectacles, the electronics giant’s CES 2014 press event …
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Apple reports record-smashing $10 billion in 2013 App Store sales
Mobile apps have become a very big business indeed. Apple on Tuesday reported that its App Store generated a record $10 billion in sales in …
Samsung misses big as Q4 profit falls 18%
Samsung on Tuesday morning reported its unaudited earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2013, missing analysts’ estimates and raising concerns about the coming year …
Sony’s big CES 2014 press conference is streaming live – watch the video right here!
This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show doesn’t even officially begin until Tuesday morning but Monday was absolutely packed with big announcements from dozens of companies …
BlackBerry’s newest strategy: Hire execs from other flailing mobile companies
BlackBerry is gradually rebuilding its executive team after it fell apart last year. Per Reuters, the Canadian smartphone maker announced on Monday that Ron Louks would …
Samsung’s CES 2014 press event is about to start – watch it live right here!
Samsung’s press conference is easily one of the biggest events of the International Consumer Electronics Show each year, and 2014 will be likely be the …
Whyd: The latest service trying to tear you away from Pandora and Spotify
The methods of ingesting music over the internet are nearly limitless. Some services offer nothing but endless radio stations, others let you pick and choose …
Samsung wants to help you manage all your devices with just one app
“The Internet of Things,” a buzz-phrase that has popped up in the news cycle for years, is a key focus at CES 2014. The idea …
HTC’s latest earnings miss is a dark omen for Samsung and even Apple
HTC reported another dismal Christmas quarter, posting a razor-thin $10 million unaudited net profit that missed analysts’ expectations by $12 million. And that profit was only …
Twitter is now literally a life-saving technology
If Twitter had been around in the 1970s, would Jaws have even been a threat? NPR reports that government researchers in Australia have started equipping …
Samsung’s Q4 profit seen coming in lower than expected
Samsung is in a tough spot: although it continues to sell more phones than any other vendor, low-end devices are dominating the charts, displacing high-margin …
Why you should never hire anyone based on their Facebook profile
The person you’re thinking of hiring has posted a bunch of pictures of themselves drunkenly vomiting on their cat on their Facebook page — does …
WSJ: Microsoft CEO prospects fear Ballmer looking over their shoulders
Why is it taking Microsoft so long to find a new CEO? Unnamed sources tell The Wall Street Journal that candidates are worried about the …
T-Mobile CEO slams AT&T for trying to buy back customers
AT&T on Friday announced a new initiative to try to steal business away from T-Mobile, but T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO was unfazed. In a series of …
Samsung plans huge strategic shift in effort to stay on top in 2014
Samsung released plenty of successful products in 2013, but that doesn’t mean it plans to settle for complacency in the new year. According to The …
BlackBerry finally takes on its biggest threat: Ryan Seacrest
Just one day after dumping Alicia Keys, BlackBerry has gotten itself tangled up with yet another celebrity. BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Typo Products, the …
Facebook sued for invading users’ privacy
Two Facebook users this week filed a class action complaint against the social network, Ars Technica reports, alleging that the messaging system inside Facebook is …
This year’s World Cup will showcase mind-blowing advances in robotics
The first ceremonial kick at the opening 2014 World Cup game taking place in Brazil later this year may be delivered by a paralyzed teen …
Meet the Wi-Fi hotspot that doubles as a video projector
In this digital age, we expect all of our devices to multi-task as much as we do. Our video game consoles need to serve as …
The one BlackBerry layoff that BlackBerry fans can cheer
Normally, layoffs are a bad sign for a company’s financial health. In the case of one particular BlackBerry layoff, however, it’s more a sign that …
At long last, some non-terrible news for BlackBerry investors
The past three years have been very bad ones for BlackBerry investors. At this time in 2011, BlackBerry’s stock was still trading well above $60 …
Here’s how to quickly erase everything you’ve ever done on Facebook
Facebook doesn’t have a simple way of deleting specific data from one’s timeline including old posts, comments and likes that a person would like to …
The end is finally in sight for the Apple-Samsung patent feud
Everyone who’s sick and tired of smartphone patent lawsuits can rejoice: We may finally, at long last, be nearing the end of one of the …
Amazon’s delivery drone dream may come true after all
The U.S. government this week approved unmanned aircraft tests for six states of the 24 that wanted to be in the program, Reuters reports, with …
One chart shows Google’s awesome power to kill your website’s traffic
If you want an illustration of just how powerful Google is, you need look no further than the search giant’s impact on Rap Genius, the …
Court-appointed monitor slams Apple’s stonewalling in eBook case
Apple’s eBook price-fixing fiasco is being dragged kicking and screaming into the new year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s monitoring lawyer, Michael Bromwich, …
HTC’s 2013 ends on yet another down note
A German patent ruling put a final negative note on HTC’s incredibly bad year and could have wide-reaching consequences for all of Android. As FOSS …
Tim Cook gets 10% pay cut… but still takes home over $40 million
Apple’s CEO has docked himself a hefty $4 million in pay, as a direct result from Apple’s underperforming stock price earlier this year, according to …
5 things the tech industry absolutely needs in 2014
Given that it’s New Year’s Eve, I thought that I’d make a quick list of New Year’s resolutions that I’d like to see the tech …
Netflix offers late Christmas gift to new subscribers with $1 price cut
Netflix has kicked off a new promotion that offers a standard-definition streaming service for $6.99, or $1 less than the popular $7.99 basic service, AdWeek reports. There …
