Why there is no chance of Apple suffering a BlackBerry-style meltdown
Every time there’s a hiccup in Apple’s sales or earnings, some analysts rush to declare that the company is past its prime and that it …
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Why the iPhone looks poised to start 2014 off with a bang
It appears the iPhone may finally be coming to China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator. It is launching a “new brand for mobile …
Microsoft, IBM lobbying seen killing key anti-patent troll proposal
Remember how excited many in the tech world were when a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers unveiled new legislation that would curb the power of patent …
iCloud was Jobs’ best shot at killing Dropbox… and it missed badly
It looks like Steve Ballmer wasn’t the only famous tech CEO who underestimated Dropbox’s staying power. ITBusiness.ca reports that Dropbox CEO Drew Houston this week …
HTC One max review
Pound for pound, the HTC One is easily among the best smartphones on the planet. Back in August, I pitted the One against Samsung’s flagship …
Bloody Black Friday gadget price war expected at Walmart, Best Buy
Electronics retailers including Best Buy, Walmart and others are about to engage in a fierce Black Friday and holiday shopping price war. The fight is …
Samsung accuses Apple of playing race card in closing arguments
There’s enough bad blood between Apple and Samsung without getting accusations of racism involved. Bloomberg reports that Samsung attorney Bill Price asked judge Lucy Koh …
Internet co-creator: ‘Privacy may be an anomaly’
While having a right to privacy sounds nice, the Internet’s co-creator thinks that it’s also unrealistic to expect your behavior to stay private if you …
Microsoft reportedly wants Mulally as ‘caretaker’ CEO, may pass baton to Elop
It looks like Microsoft is a little bit closer to choosing its next CEO. According to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, the leading candidate to replace …
Review: Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U
If you had asked me a month ago which consoles I’d be spending the most time with over the holidays, the Wii U and the …
Samsung: ‘Apple doesn’t own beautiful and sexy’
During the closing arguments at the latest hearing of the Apple–Samsung patent squabble, Samsung’s counsel said that “Apple doesn’t own beautiful and sexy,” and told the …
Ballmer fights back against Bing, Xbox doomsaying
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows that a lot of investors have their knives out for Bing and Xbox, but he’s not having any of …
Nokia shareholders rip Elop as a ‘triple-A flop’ on his way out
Microsoft probably shouldn’t appoint Stephen Elop as its next CEO if it wants to keep a good business relationship with the people of Finland. Finnish …
PlayStation 4 review: Sony scores a direct hit in latest console war
If the PlayStation 4 is any indication of the quality of the next generation of gaming, then it was worth the wait after all. I’m …
iBeacon customer tracking coming to Apple retail stores
Apple will reportedly deploy its new iBeacon location tracking technology in its retail stores that will work with iOS 7 devices to enhance the store …
Reuters: Anonymous has been hacking government computers for a year
Hackers linked to the Anonymous group have been hacking U.S. government computers since December 2012, Reuters has learned from a memo distributed on Thursday by …
Google to pay $17 million for putting its hand in Apple’s cookie jar
Remember last year when Google had to pay $22.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission after bypassing security settings on the Safari browser in order …
Apple may get its ban on Samsung devices after all
Although Samsung still faces the prospect of paying Apple hundreds of millions more dollars to settle its patent dispute, the company has so far been …
Apple 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro review (late 2013)
It happened: the MacBook Air has officially been trumped as my recommended road warrior machine. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s another Apple product that’s doing the …
Apple’s rumored $345M PrimeSense acquisition could be iTV’s secret weapon
It looks like Apple fans can expect the company’s voice and gesture control technology to kick into high gear in the coming years. According to …
Nokia Lumia 1520 review: Nokia’s first phablet is full of surprises
Nokia, as we know it, is going away. The company itself will remain, of course. It might even be consistently profitable some day. But the …
Snapchat rumored to have turned down $4 billion from Google
Snapchat must be very, very confident in itself because it’s apparently been turning down multibillion-dollar buyout offers left and right. Unnamed sources tell Valleywag that …
Ballmer reflects on time with Microsoft: ‘I’m big, I’m bald and I’m loud’
Give outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer credit: He seems to be very in touch with who he really is. In a lengthy interview with The …
Apple’s Schiller: ‘Copied’ Samsung phones sully iPhone’s prestige
Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller isn’t done raking Samsung over the coals just yet. Per The Wall Street Journal, Schiller told the jury in the …
Why Apple wants to squeeze every last dime from Samsung
Why is Apple so insistent on squeezing every last dime it can out of Samsung over patent infringement? Well, apart from the obvious greed factor …
Pfizer ditching BlackBerry due to company’s ‘volatile state’
It’s become pretty obvious that BlackBerry’s fruitless search for “strategic alternatives” did the company no favors. AllThingsD reports that pharmaceutical company Pfizer has advised all …
Google Books wins major victory for fair use
Google has had plenty of run-ins with authors, publishers and distributors of books over the past several years, some more positive than others. But in …
U.S. government requests for Google user info have tripled since 2009
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have gotten more and more hungry for Google users’ data over the past four years. Google said on …
Why a $1 billion cash injection may not be enough to save BlackBerry
BlackBerry has certainly bought itself some time with the $1 billion cash injection it received from Fairfax Financial and its partners but there’s no guarantee …
Apple’s ‘star witness’ during patent trial is Samsung
On Wednesday, we learned that Apple had lowered its demands in the patent suit in an attempt to come to some kind of middle ground …
