The one thing that can unite all Americans: Hatred of patent trolls
Patent trolls are so widely despised that they might actually spur Congress to get something useful accomplished. Ars Technica reports that a bipartisan group of …
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Will the man who almost ran Apple into the ground save BlackBerry?
Poor John Sculley. The man has done plenty before and after he was Apple’s chief executive for a decade beginning in 1983, but he will …
YouTube plans to take on Spotify with subscription-based music service
The music streaming market has become especially crowded with the addition of Apple’s iTunes Radio, but another major player in the online world is supposedly …
Samsung fined for paying off trolls to bash HTC on the web
HTC has enough problems right now and it doesn’t need to deal with paid trolls bashing its products in online reviews as well. The Associated …
Samsung snags significant stake in Gorilla Glass maker Corning
Samsung is about to get more involved in Gorilla Glass development. Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning announced on Wednesday that Samsung Display has acquired a 7.4% …
Google mulls breaking its pledge on search banner ads
Contrary to its past pledges, Google seems to be dabbling in the evil known as banner ads. Search Engine Land has confirmed that Google is …
AT&T posts solid Q3 earnings with $0.66 EPS, $32.2 billion in revenue
Sorry, John Legere: Your “uncarrier” crusade isn’t hurting AT&T yet. AT&T on Wednesday posted solid results in its third-quarter earnings report with $0.66 earnings per …
Top cable lobbyist urges more ISPs to slap users with data caps
Do you like being able to stream Netflix movies at home without worrying about going over a monthly broadband cap? Well too bad — National Cable …
How the British are rebelling against rising mobile prices
The British are giving their mobile carriers the Guy Fawkes treatment. Per Which?, the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) announced this week that it …
HTC denies that it’s shutting down factories
It’s never a good thing when you have to spend time denying credible reports that you’ve started shuttering some of your production facilities. But that’s …
The key to an energy-efficient future: USB everywhere
We already use USB cords to charge smartphones and tablets but they could soon let us charge more high-powered devices as well. The Economist has …
On his way out, Ballmer gets low marks from Microsoft employees
Steve Ballmer has been Microsoft’s CEO for more than a decade but it looks like a sizable chunk of his workforce won’t be sad to …
Apple’s big event is now underway: First up, Apple by the numbers
Apple’s big press conference in San Francisco is now underway and while brand new iPad and iPad mini tablets will be the stars of the …
Apple’s big iPad event is about to start – here’s how to watch it live
Apple remained silent for most of 2013 and industry watchers panicked as the months rolled by with no major product launches. Well, when it rains …
Netflix is now in Beast Mode
It’s hard to beat expectations after your share price has soared from $60 to $330 in a year. Incredibly hard. Yet that is what Netflix …
Does Lenovo have ulterior motives for its potential BlackBerry bid?
As we’ve mentioned before, a Lenovo-BlackBerry merger is probably a nonstarter because the Canadian government is likely to block any acquisition of BlackBerry by a …
Twitter #Music reportedly a dud, may soon be shut down
In the wake of countless music streaming services popping up over the past several years, Twitter’s own offering never made much of an impact. AllThingsD …
HTC says it has a ‘disruptive’ tablet and a smartwatch in the works
Smartphones haven’t been working out terribly well for HTC lately, so the company is looking elsewhere to help reverse course. The Taiwan-based vendor isn’t going …
AT&T announces huge $4.85 billion cell tower deal
AT&T on Sunday announced a deal with Crown Castle that will see the nationwide carrier lease the rights to 9,100 of its cell towers and sell …
Why a Lenovo BlackBerry buy looks like a nonstarter
BlackBerry’s shares got a slight boost on Thursday when rumors circulated for the 12,497th time that Chinese hardware manufacturer Lenovo was interested in buying the …
iPhone user hates iOS 7 so much that he’s suing Apple over it
Brighter colors and flat icons just aren’t for everybody. That said, it seems that iPhone user Mark Menacher hates them much more than anyone else. CNET …
Apple poised to attack new $4 billion market opportunity
Apple hasn’t yet begun to push the new iBeacon service it touched upon earlier this year, but that will soon change. According to market research …
Why Google has blown past Microsoft as tech’s second most valuable firm
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s early critique of Android was that he didn’t understand how Google was going to make money from giving away software for …
HTC’s new PR boss quits after just four months on the job
Pretty much nothing is going well for HTC these days and now the company is starting to lose key executives after they’ve been on the …
Motorola is still a huge drag on Google
In light of Google’s big earnings beat on Thursday night, sending the stock surging past $1,000 to an all-time high, there was one major drag: …
Ransomware demands $300 in Bitcoins to release your data
If you’ve never encountered ransomware, consider yourself lucky. Ransomware is malware that completely locks down your computer and threatens to corrupt or destroy your files …
Google is becoming the new Apple of Wall Street’s eye
With Google delivering better than expected earnings this week, it’s now time for tech market analysts to dish out more sky-high price targets for the …
A month with the iPhone 5s
Apple’s iPhone 5s represents the biggest “S” upgrade an iPhone has ever seen. The guts of the phone have been completely overhauled, just as BGR …
Google shares surge past $1,000 in Friday trading
Google’s better-than-expected earnings report has sent the company’s shares surging past the $1,000 barrier for the first time in its history during trading on Friday. …
When it comes to generating ad dollars, YouTube may be past its prime
Although Google turned in a very strong earnings performance last quarter, one of the few troublesome spots was the continued decline in the company’s cost-per-click …
