Google ousts AT&T, will provide Wi-Fi to 7,000 Starbucks stores
Google just raised its profile as an ISP in a big way among espresso-swilling hipsters as the company announced on Wednesday that it has become …
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Why Android’s ‘cheap and nasty’ strategy is a huge threat to the iOS ecosystem
Yes, many Android phones have that tacky, plastic feel. No, Android vendors selling those sub-$200 phones are not making much money. Yes, Android is seriously fragmented. …
Did Google change its stance on net neutrality? [updated]
Now that Google is an ISP, it’s started to act more like one. Wired reports that Google has barred a “potential” Google Fiber customer from attaching …
HTC has become a total disaster
Why does HTC CEO Peter Chou still have a job? That’s the only question that comes to mind when looking over HTC’s latest earnings report, …
Wii U sales plummet to just 160,000 units in Q2
Nintendo shares fell 5% in Tokyo on Wednesday as the company posted June-quarter results that don’t paint a pretty picture. The company managed to swing …
Who needs Google? New service will let you sell your own data to companies
Are you annoyed that Google and Facebook get to rake in enormous revenues every year because they’re selling your personal data to other companies without …
Using Facebook is about to get a lot more annoying
It was only a matter of time before Facebook started bringing auto-play ads into users’ news feeds. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Facebook will start …
Time Warner Cable to milk subscribers for an extra $150 million with fee increase
Modem fees are one of the cable industry’s less popular financial innovations but there’s a good reason that cable companies use them: They rake in …
BlackBerry exec: ‘BlackBerry is not in trouble’
The first step on the road to recovery is admitting that one has a problem. While BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins hasn’t been shy in making …
Apple CEO visits China, likely to hash out China Mobile iPhone deal
With Apple’s market share in China under pressure, CEO Tim Cook seems to be taking a renewed focus on hammering out a deal with China …
HTC’s Q2 profit tumbles as company forecasts first-ever loss for Q3
They say the darkest hour is just before dawn, and HTC certainly hopes “they” are right. The company on Tuesday posted second-quarter financial results that …
Sprint posts massive $1.6 billion Q2 loss
With SoftBank undoubtedly eager to get this first Sprint report since its acquisition out of the way, Sprint on Tuesday night posted its results for …
Why Samsung will thrive during 2013’s smartphone profit slowdown
Unlike a lot of smartphone vendors, Samsung has a pretty good business to fall back on in case smartphone demand dries up. The Wall Street …
Surface debacle shows Microsoft still struggling to keep it simple
One of the reasons that Apple has been so successful has been its obsession with keeping its products as simple as possible so that computing …
AT&T and the Red Queen’s Race
AT&T’s spring quarter had a bit of that “Alice in Wonderland” quality. The mammoth carrier beat Wall Street’s consensus by 10% by adding 551,000 new …
How ISPs are making video streaming slower than it should be
If your favorite video streaming service is experiencing slow buffering, then your ISP is unsurprisingly partly to blame — and not just because it’s delivering a …
Obama administration urged to veto ITC’s iPhone 4 ban
Apple isn’t the only company unhappy with the International Trade Commission’s impending import ban on the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2. The Wall Street …
Apple SVP Mansfield exits executive team
Bob Mansfield, Apple’s longtime senior vice president of technologies, is no longer on the company’s executive team and is instead working on “special projects” under …
Apple partner Pegatron accused of violating workers’ rights, called worse than Foxconn [updated]
Manufacturing Apple products is now an instant ticket to increased scrutiny following the years-long investigation into Apple partner Foxconn’s treatment of workers in its various …
Apple awarded ‘Brand of the Year’ for iPhone, iPad and MacBook
Apple for the second consecutive year won the Harris Interactive’s “Brand of the Year” award in three categories. The company beat out rivals including Google, …
Google finally discloses Waze acquisition price
Google confirmed in June that it had acquired social navigation company Waze. Initial reports had suggested that Google may have paid up to $1.3 billion …
U.K. government takes heat for porn filtering plan
The United Kingdom has a prudish reputation by nature but nobody could have expected the country’s government would ask ISPs to implement pornography filters as …
Why Amazon is still smiling despite Q2 loss
Amazon has never given granular detail about its business, preferring to keep investors, analysts and the media as far away as possible from knowing the …
A closer look at how the iPhone crushed Intel and boosted ARM
There are numerous areas one might examine when looking for data to support the advent of the post-PC era. Declining PC sales, exploding tablet sales …
The smartphone market’s huge Q2 growth is awful news for big brands
Market research giant IDC recently announced surprisingly strong spring smartphone numbers. Global smartphone volume growth topped expectations handily, coming in at torrid +52% between the second quarter …
Ballmer reportedly admits Surface was a flop, says Windows 8 sales are disappointing
Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always exuded unwavering confidence in public interviews, behind closed doors he’s apparently being much more candid. The Verge reports …
How Samsung’s ‘gadget spam’ is crushing Apple in the world’s top smartphone market
With Apple’s revenue from China having dropped last quarter, the company is coming under more pressure to negotiate a deal with carrier China Mobile to …
Samsung tops Apple to become the most profitable handset vendor in the world
Apple may still be the most profitable consumer electronics company in the world, but Samsung’s successful Galaxy S4 launch helped the South Korea-based giant top …
Five indicted in largest hacking scheme in U.S. history
The United States government has accused five men from Russia and the Ukraine of masterminding the largest hacking scheme in U.S. history, The Wall Street …
eBook price-fixing verdict could cost Apple almost $500 million
The vast majority of Apple’s award from its Samsung patent infringement victory could go up in smoke now that the company has been found guilty …
