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 …
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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 …
BlackBerry CEO’s open letter is just a sad attempt to spin the company’s downward spiral
Brand new BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written a letter detailing BlackBerry’s strength and strategy for CNBC, and it was was published earlier Monday morning. …
BlackBerry’s big jam: Foxconn manufactured phone won’t have a keyboard
This might be hard to believe… if it wasn’t BlackBerry. BGR is able to confirm that the company’s upcoming handset code-named Jakarta — the one …
Apple and Samsung reportedly resume talks to end painful patent war
The patent war that recently consumed the mobile industry and the media went from a boil to a simmer in 2013, but a new trial …
Online shopping not as hot as expected this Christmas
Christmas Day online shopping results from PCs fell short of estimates, a new comScore report shows, despite having shown significant growth compared to the same holiday …
Google asked to remove 235M links to copyright infringing content in 2013
Google received more than 235 million takedown requests this year from copyright holders that wanted links to copyright infringing content to be removed from Google …
Dog-to-English translator becomes a reality thanks to crowdfunding campaign
An Indiegogo project that aims to deliver the first gadget capable of translating a dog’s thoughts into the English language has reached its funding goal with …
HTC’s miserable year continues as exec is indicted for leaking secrets
We thought HTC’s rough year ended earlier this week with Nokia’s patent win against HTC, but the bad news just keeps coming. Now The Wall …
Flagship failures haunt struggling smartphone vendors
Apple and Samsung continued to completely crush smartphone their smaller smartphone rivals in 2013. Despite their best efforts, companies like LG and HTC launched huge …
Apple still wants to ban Samsung phones that aren’t even for sale anymore
Following its multi-million dollar win against Samsung, Apple still wants to ban some of the devices found to be infringing on its patents, even though …
Former interns give us an inside look at what it’s like to work at Google
Google’s internship program is one of the most sought-after and widely discussed in the United States, so it’s no wonder that Hollywood deemed the experience …
Little Trouble in Big China: iPhone spells trouble for Samsung, others in China
Monthly 3G subscriber growth in China has dropped sharply just before Apple kicks off wider iPhone distribution in the country thanks to its deal with China …
Amazon sold 426 items per second during its ‘best ever’ holiday season
As if it could have ended any other way, Amazon managed to once again set sales records this holiday season. Amazon announced on Thursday that …
BlackBerry analysts say Lazaridis was smart to sell shares
Questionable decisions have plagued BlackBerry’s co-founders for years, but one decision that even the analysts have condoned is Mike Lazaridis’ recent sale of more than 3 …
Shoppers or shippers – who’s to blame for ruining Christmas?
Online shopping can be both a blessing and a curse during the holiday season. On the one hand, we can avoid all those pesky lines …
This is what it’s like to be an intern for Apple
Apple interns are fully submersed in the company’s culture during their internships, and they’re not just “fetching coffee,” as Business Insider puts it. Despite the …
Anti-porn politician’s website blocked by porn filters she advocated
As was predicted by just about everyone, the United Kingdom’s initiative to get U.K. ISPs to add default pornography filters has been a complete and …
Google dethrones Apple to become most talked-about company of 2013
Google had a pretty good year in 2013. The company’s share price exploded to all-time highs, Android now eclipses all other mobile platforms in global …
Samsung named No. 1 in enterprise on same day huge Knox security hole was uncovered
On the same day a potentially huge security hole was uncovered in Samsung’s mobile enterprise security solution Knox, the South Korean technology giant was ranked …
Google strikes back at Apple and Microsoft’s anti-Android patent consortium
It hasn’t taken long for Google to strike back in the latest patent world war. GigaOM reports that Google this week has filed a lawsuit …
Google already looks poised to dominate the robotics industry
If robots are indeed the future then Google is getting a big head start on the competition. Technology Review notes that robots created by Google-owned …
Apple slapped with $670,000 fine in Taiwan for interfering with carrier prices
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has hit Apple with a small fine and warned the company that it may face a more substantial penalty if it doesn’t …
BlackBerry co-founder Lazaridis dumps 3.5 million shares
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis had so much faith in the company he helped rise to greatness — which, coincidentally, is also the company he helped …
Number of photos taken in 2014 will approach 1 trillion thanks to selfie explosion
2013 was the year of the selfie, according to the Oxford English Dictionary — but self-snaps aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Everybody is taking selfies, …
Apple eyeing $4 billion iPad deal in Turkey
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is reportedly going to travel to Turkey in February to attend the official opening of the first retail store in the …
Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents
Rockstar — a consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry and Sony that purchased 4,000 patents from Nortel in 2011 — is looking to sell …
Chen’s BlackBerry comeback plan compared to quadruple bypass surgery
John Chen clearly relishes a good challenge but he may never have taken on a task as daunting as turning around BlackBerry. Barron’s spots a …
