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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 …
Noted critic on Twitter: ‘It’s toast. Over. Done. History.’
Noted industry analyst and former consultant to major labels Bob Lefsetz is best known for his thoughts on the music industry, but he dabbles in …
Thief swipes iPhones, leaves his own Samsung smartphone at the scene
Clearly, there are better ways to switch smartphone platforms. 25-year-old Travis Montgomery Snyder was arrested this week in Remington, Virginia after a police investigation into a local …
Fighting fire with napalm: How Google’s Moto X will battle the iPhone 5S this fall
Fighting fire with fire is only a safe bet when the odds are somewhat balanced. Google knows this, so to battle Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5S …
Schmidt says Google’s chilly relationship with Apple has started to thaw
It’s no secret that Apple and Google aren’t exactly the best of friends, but Google chairman Eric Schmidt suggested this week that the two companies …
Can half a billion dollars make Google’s Moto X a hit?
Going up against Apple’s iPhone 5S, Samsung’s Galaxy Note III, LG’s G2 and a handful of other flagship phones this fall isn’t going to be …
Tiny Minnesota town becomes latest to get gigabit fiber
The fiber revolution is slowly but surely rolling across America. In addition to major cities such as Kansas City and Austin, Tex., smaller communities in …
Two more high-level BlackBerry execs quit
Following news that BlackBerry recently fired its U.S. sales chief and is planning additional layoffs in the near future, a new report reveals that two …
Apple, Google fall off list of top-10 brands as BlackBerry climbs to two-year high
Tech industry leaders Apple and Google have fallen off of YouGov’s BrandIndex top-10 “Buzz Rankings” list in the U.S., which rates the top companies in …
Never mind the Lumia 1020 – Nokia’s future rides on the Asha 501
Nokia on Thursday announced the $300 Lumia 1020, yet another U.S. flagship phone that is likely doomed to top out at around 300,00 to 500,000 units …
Microsoft’s major reorganization finally announced
Microsoft’s big reorganization has finally gotten official. AllThingsD has published a memo sent out by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday providing details on the …
Instagram launches video embedding for all websites
Instagram on Wednesday announced an important new feature that could help its video-sharing service grow by leaps and bounds: embedding onto websites. Instagram’s embedding protocols …
Apple predicted to post almost no revenue growth in fiscal Q3
What a difference a year makes. Last summer Apple was still on top of the world and its stock price was headed for $700. This …
T-Mobile unveils ‘JUMP’: Semiannual smartphone upgrades for $10 per month
T-Mobile on Wednesday unveiled a bold new plan as it continues to seek out creative ways to differentiate itself from larger rivals Verizon Wireless, AT&T …
Google names next victim as killing spree continues
Google ends up shutting down more than one out of every three services it offers, and the serial killer’s next victim has been identified. As …
A look at the huge mistakes HTC keeps making
Is there a company out there that shoots itself in the foot as regularly as HTC? Consider that in the past two weeks I’ve had two …
Judge rules Apple violated antitrust law in eBook price-fixing case [updated]
A judge has found that Apple violated federal antitrust laws in an eBooks price-fixing case where the company was accused of leading a conspiracy to …
BlackBerry fires U.S. sales boss, more layoffs coming
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins talked a good game at Tuesday’s shareholder meeting and BlackBerry shares climbed 3% after hours as a result. The struggling smartphone …
Apple asks ITC not to ban older iPhone, iPad models
Apple is unsurprisingly not keen on the International Trade Commission’s impending import ban on older iPhone and iPad models. Per AppleInsider, the company has asked …
Samsung apes Microsoft’s strategy, throws money at developers for Tizen apps
The market hasn’t exactly been kind to operating systems that aren’t iOS or Android, which is why Microsoft has been smartly offering app developers large …
Samsung breaks ground on new $300 million Silicon Valley HQ
Apple is doing everything it can to crush top rival Samsung but starting in 2015, the iPhone maker will be seeing a lot more of …
Apple and Amazon agree to drop ‘app store’ lawsuit
Apple and Amazon have agreed to end their trademark dispute over the right to use the term “app store.” U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton on Tuesday …
Microsoft has lost $11 billion trying to compete with Google
We’ve known for a while that Microsoft hasn’t been very successful in its attempt to make a Bing a legitimate rival to Google but it seems …
Google search displays only 13% organic results – the rest is ads and junk
Despite Microsoft’s increased efforts to dethrone Google, the company still controls a majority of the search market. Hundreds of millions of people use Google to …
The app that ate Finland
It had been 18 months since I was last in Finland, so the extent of Angry Birds’ brand saturation came as a shock when I …
