Good news amid the gloom: Lumia sales now outnumber BlackBerry sales
Investors sent Nokia shares sliding on Thursday after the vendor posted less-than-stellar results for the second quarter this year. Nokia narrowed its loss substantially in …
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Verizon posts $2.25 billion Q2 profit, adds 1 million new subscribers
Verizon on Thursday posted its results for the second quarter of 2013. Wall Street was looking for earnings to climb 14% to $0.72 per share …
Nokia’s smartphone prices are dropping like a rock
Overall, Nokia’s second-quarter sales and earnings came in above expectations thanks to the strong network unit performance. But the smartphone unit volume was light at 7.4 …
Nokia narrows Q2 loss; Lumia sales reach record 7.4M, but U.S. sales slide 17%
Nokia on Thursday posted earnings results for the second quarter of 2013. The company narrowed its loss to €115 million, or approximately $151 million, which is …
Yahoo ups its efforts to compete with Google’s mobile ad powerhouse
Yahoo has been acquiring companies left and right since former Google executive Marissa Mayer became the company’s chief executive. Mayer has emphasized the importance of …
Instagram terms of service lawsuit dismissed
Instagram revised its terms of service last December in an attempt to open new doors to potential advertisers. The change was met with intense user …
Google’s antitrust proposal has been rejected by the EU
Officials from the European Commission are not satisfied with Google’s antitrust settlement proposal. The company previously said it would display links to rival services on …
Why the NSA will have a tougher time spying through the Xbox One Kinect sensor
Given all the allegations surrounding Microsoft’s supposed cooperation with the United States government on implementing the PRISM surveillance program, it’s not too far-fetched to worry that the National …
NEC and the sorrow of Japan
Sadly enough, NEC’s share price rose 2.6% on the news that it is going to shutter its mobile phone unit. It’s a tragic epitaph for what …
Huge Surface RT price cuts said to be unlikely to boost sales
Microsoft’s debut Surface RT tablet hasn’t been the runaway success the company was hoping for, so Microsoft recently slashed the price of the tablet — just …
Moment of truth for Nokia
Nokia reports its spring quarter on Thursday — and the stakes are very high, indeed. The substantial spring revenue weakness from BlackBerry and HTC implies that many second-tier …
After iPhone 5S and iOS 7 debut, Apple customers may be nearly impossible to steal
Apple users are already notoriously faithful to their consumer electronics brand of choice, but one industry watcher thinks Apple customers will soon be almost impossible …
Google, copyright holders agree on plan to starve piracy sites of cash
Google has followed through on its pledge to help copyright holders come up with a plan to starve piracy websites of funding. The Guardian reports …
HTC and Sony defeat patent troll
A federal jury in Texas on Monday found that HTC, Sony, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent do not infringe Wi-Lan’s technology, The Wall Street Journal reported. Wi-Lan, …
The never-ending Apple-Samsung patent battle goes back to court next month
Attorneys for Apple and Samsung will be heading back to court early next month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington …
Video: Samsung exec David Eun discusses new Silicon Valley accelerator
Samsung recently broke ground on a brand new Silicon Valley headquarters that just so happens to be mere minutes from Apple’s Cupertino, California campus, but …
Is Spotify helping kill off music piracy?
Artists may like griping about subscription-based music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, but they appear to be doing a lot to kill off music …
BlackBerry reportedly slashes Z10, Q10 production in half as sales slow
BlackBerry posted fiscal first quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates by a wide margin. The company’s surprise loss was obviously troubling, but even more so …
Do the new Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T plans signal a big smartphone downturn?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile is about to announce the first quarter of contract subscriber growth since 2010. The timing of the Bloomberg bombshell was …
BlackBerry may now be stuck in a no-win situation
With BlackBerry’s comeback momentum seemingly stalled, many analysts have started coming up with ideas for how the company can survive if its current plan to …
How do wireless carriers plan to milk subscribers as growth slows? New fees, new tricks
How do you put your company in the best possible position to grow when you’ve seemingly squeezed customers as much as they can possibly be …
Apple reportedly in talks to acquire Kinect inventor PrimeSense [updated]
A new report suggests that Apple is interested in acquiring the company whose technology powers Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor. According to Calcalist, Apple is in talks …
In odd twist, Chinese PC vendor Lenovo shifts manufacturing to U.S.
We hear a lot about American companies offshoring their manufacturing operations to China, but now we have a true man-bites-dog story of a Chinese company …
How to escape Google’s clutches while surfing the web
Google has built a very powerful empire of key web services that it very conveniently lets you use while signed into one account, including Gmail, …
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BGR grew at an incredible pace in 2012 and things haven’t slowed at all in the first half of 2013 — our content now reaches …
Apple reportedly already planning move back to Samsung for future processors
It looks like Apple and Samsung are destined to be frenemies for life. A new report claims that Apple’s switch to TSMC for its next-generation …
Hulu owners no longer looking to sell, plan additional $750 million investment
Hulu announced on Friday that 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Company will maintain ownership of the company. The video streaming service was …
AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless
AT&T on Friday announced plans to acquire Leap Wireless, owner of U.S. cellular network operator Cricket Communications. The proposed deal is a big spectrum and …
Microsoft sues government for not banning Motorola imports
Microsoft is not messing around anymore when it comes to enforcing patent judgements against Google and Motorola. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft filed a lawsuit against …
BlackBerry CEO reportedly bringing hammer down on management team
Three key BlackBerry executives have left the company over the past couple of months and many more could soon be shuffling toward the exit as …
