Another blow for HTC: Company must change chip design after losing patent fight with Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia’s radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports. …
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Study suggests Microsoft’s ‘Bing-it-on’ claims are false [updated]
Surprise! It turns out that people who take Microsoft’s “Bing it on” challenge don’t actually prefer Bing to Google by a rate of 2-to-1. Yale …
BlackBerry reportedly draws buyout interest from Cerberus and co-founder Lazaridis
With the Fairfax Holdings deal all but certain, BlackBerry is reportedly drawing interest from at least two other suitors, a potentially positive note that could …
Comcast seen increasing speeds solely as a way to further gouge customers
It’s true that Comcast has been aggressively boosting the speeds on its network, but it may only be a pretense for getting its customers to …
Apple acknowledges iMessage issue preventing messages from being delivered
Apple has confirmed an issue with its iMessage text and picture messaging service that has left many users unable to send messages at times. The …
Google seemingly close to settling EU antitrust case
Google looks like it’s about to skate it yet another antitrust probe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joaquín Almunia, who serves as the European Union’s …
Former Microsoft privacy advisor: ‘I don’t trust Microsoft now’
It’s doubtful that Microsoft will recruit its former privacy advisor Caspar Bowden to help it come up with witty one-liners for its next round of “Scroogled” …
Samsung Galaxy Gear review
Top smartphone makers have a bit of a problem. They got so good at selling smartphones that there aren’t enough people left to buy them …
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 review
Samsung has a problem, but the first step on the road to recovery is admitting it. There are a few common themes that characterize all …
BlackBerry: Where it all went wrong
It’s not just about the second-quarter earnings which showed a near $1 billion write-down for unsold BlackBerry Z10 phones. It’s not about the fact that …
Sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Note lineup reportedly top 40M, including 30M Note II handsets
Less than three weeks ago, Samsung announced that channel sales of its Galaxy Note lineup had topped 38 million units globally. According to a report …
iPhone 6 again rumored to see Apple begin moving away from Samsung for chip production
Samsung was still very much a part of Apple’s latest flagship iPhone 5s, having been tasked with building the 64-bit A7 processor Apple designed to …
Why Ford CEO Mulally could be the right person to lead Microsoft
With Stephen Elop’s tenure at Nokia now shrouded in controversy, Microsoft may be looking in a different direction when it comes to picking its next …
NSA admits that analysts spied on their love interests
When Sting wrote “Every Breath You Take,” he probably never imagined that someone in the future could literally act out the song word for word. …
Google looks to scoop up engineers in BlackBerry’s hometown
Former BlackBerry employees may want to get their résumés in order: Google is coming to town. Reuters reports that Google’s Motorola Mobility division is setting …
The wild $5 billion Candy Crush Saga IPO and its implications
UK-based King, the creator of “Candy Crush Saga,” has filed for an IPO in the United States. Expected valuation tops $5 billion. King is the …
Fairfax boss helped triple BlackBerry CEO Heins’ golden parachute this year
When it comes to golden parachutes, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop may have nothing on BlackBerry chief Thorsten Heins. Reuters reports that BlackBerry’s board of …
HTC and Beats part ways following $265 million share buyback
The tie-up between HTC and Beats Electronics has been a curious one, and now it is coming to an end. HTC dumped $300 million into …
BlackBerry’s Q2 earnings as ugly as expected
BlackBerry released its second-quarter earnings report on Friday and it’s just as bad as the company warned us it would be last week. On the …
UK government wants Google to block piracy sites like it blocks child abuse pics
Watching an unauthorized Game of Thrones torrent is now apparently on par with downloading child pornography. PC Pro reports that United Kingdom members of parliament …
Third-party Android browser forms ‘anti-Google alliance’ with rival search engines
Dolphin, a third-party mobile browser that runs on Android and iOS, is apparently tired of seeing Google reign as the de-facto king of the Internet. …
Longtime manufacturing partner plans on ‘disengaging with BlackBerry’
In the latest depressing round of BlackBerry news, AllThingsD reports that longtime BlackBerry manufacturing partner Jabil Circuit is looking to end its relationship with the …
Simple trick brings free iTunes Radio to international users
iTunes Radio launched alongside iOS 7 last week, but the service is currently only accessible to iTunes users within the United States. But for users …
Weak demand forces T-Mobile to bail on BlackBerry in stores
As BlackBerry fights for its life, the hits keep on coming. T-Mobile confirmed on Wednesday evening that it will stop carrying BlackBerry smartphones in its …
20% of all Yelp reviews are written by paid shills [updated]
How many of the Yelp reviews you read would you guess are forged by the companies being reviewed? MarketWatch reports that 20% of Yelp reviews …
Apple’s wireless carrier contracts under investigation in France
Quelle surprise! Apple’s dealings with wireless carriers in France have come under investigation. MarketWatch reports that authorities in France are probing Apple’s contracts to determine …
Survey: 15% of U.S. adults still don’t use the Internet
Considering just how much time we spend online every day, it’s hard to fathom a life completely devoid of an Internet connection. Yet according to …
Fairfax’s BlackBerry bid seen stretching the ‘limits of M&A creativity’
Fairfax Financial’s $4.7 billion offer to take BlackBerry private is fairly unorthodox. In the first place, Fairfax made the offer public without raising anywhere close …
Nokia would like to remind you that Motorola’s Sanjay Jha received $47M following Google’s buyout
Nokia’s vice president of Media Relations has reached out to BGR and pointed out that “our non-Finnish speaking audience would appreciate balanced coverage.” Nokia would like …
Samsung’s marketing spending could hit $4.5 billion in Q4
The Samsung advertising juggernaut looks like it’s having its biggest year yet. Enders Analysis analyst Benedict Evans has posted a chart on his Twitter account …
