RIM to lay off 3,000 employees starting next week
BGR has confirmed with a trusted source that the rumored next round of layoffs that Research In Motion (RIMM) has been planning will indeed commence next …
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Early unaired Mac ad even more smug and obnoxious than reviled ‘Genius’ ads [video]
Apple’s (AAPL) history of creating advertisements featuring smug, cocky “geniuses” goes back well before the recent “Genius” ads and even before the old-school “Mac-versus-PC” ads. …
Leaked photos of iPhone 5 battery raise questions over battery life
LTE traditionally requires a pretty substantial battery, but new reports suggest that Apple (AAPL) has either figured out a way to bring 4G LTE to the iPhone …
Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis, and the giant with no legs
Research In Motion (RIMM) was back in the news this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It seems like RIM is always in the …
It looks like Apple has another copied design to sue Samsung over
Apple’s (AAPL) lawyers are a busy bunch these days, what with the U.S. patent trial of the century currently underway. Regardless of where the chips …
Google doesn’t really seem to care if Samsung gets slaughtered in current Apple trial
Google (GOOG) is always willing to help out its Android manufacturing partners, but only if they’re getting sued over patents related to Android. Unnamed sources …
Apple sold more smartphones in two quarters than Samsung sold in two years in the U.S.
Between June 2010 and June 2012, Samsung (005930) sold a whole lot of smartphones in the United States. According to records the company was forced …
Analysts dub HP the ‘comeback kid’ despite imminent $9 billion quarterly loss
No, reporting a $9 billion quarterly loss is never a good thing. But AllThingsD is reporting that many analysts think HP (HPQ) is still well-positioned …
Bloomberg: IBM considering acquiring RIM’s enterprise business
Bloomberg is reporting that IBM (IBM) is currently weighing considerable interest in Research In Motion’s (RIMM) enterprise services. This could include RIM’s network infrastructure the …
Best Buy founder’s plan to turn things around: Shrink the ‘big box’ and be more like Apple
Best Buy (BBY) founder Richard Schulze sees the writing on the wall: the era of big-box consumer electronics stores is coming to an end. The Wall Street …
Comcast has been well-behaved ever since the FCC smacked it down over BitTorrent throttling
As amazing as it may seem, corporations’ behavior can change when federal regulators decide to step in. TorrentFreak reports on a new study from Measurement Lab showing that …
Microsoft reassures companies that Windows 8 won’t destroy their businesses
Microsoft (MSFT) is finally stepping up to address the loud complaints from both OEMs and gaming companies about the impact Windows 8 will have on …
Samsung confirms, yet again, that it wants nothing to do with RIM or its software
Ouch. Consumer electronics giants like Samsung (005930) typically stay quiet when it comes to market chatter, but Samsung has taken a different approach when the topic of …
Apple begins selling iPhone 4S at $149.99 to match Sprint discount
Apple (AAPL) Stores around the country will now match Sprint’s sales price on the iPhone 4S, according to a recent report. Earlier this week, Sprint …
Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC privacy charges
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced that Google (GOOG) has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to settle charges that it misrepresented …
HTC in Hell
This HTC warning was different. There has been a stream of them since last November, but the latest one broke the back of Wall Street’s …
The BGR Show: Episode 9 – Interview with Nokia’s EVP of smart devices, Jo Harlow
This week we sit down with Jo Harlow, the executive vice president in charge of Nokia’s (NOK) smart devices, to talk about the company’s current …
RIM dodges $150 million bullet
Bullets keep flying Research In Motion’s (RIMM) way, but this time the company managed to dodge one. A jury in a Northern California court recently …
T-Mobile USA subscriber losses worsen to 205,000 in Q2
T-Mobile USA on Thursday reported its financial results for the second quarter. The company’s experimentation with a number of new plan options and hardware subsidy …
Anonymous targets Ukrainian government over Demonoid shut down [video]
Following reports that claimed the popular torrent website Demonoid was taken down by the Ukrainian government as a gift to the United States, notorious hacking …
Amazon wants in on the patent suit racket
Amazon (AMZN) has apparently grown tired of letting Apple (AAPL), Samsung (005930), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) have all the fun with patent litigation. Reuters reports …
Watch out, Siri – Google’s enhanced voice search is coming to the iPhone and iPad [video]
Google (GOOG) on Wednesday announced that it will be updating its Search application for the iPhone and iPad. The new version of Google Search will …
Android surges in Q2, accounts for more than two-thirds of all smartphones shipped
Android expanded its dominance of the global smartphone market last quarter and accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, according to IDC. …
Apple could screw over iPhone repair shops with crazy new screw design
People who think Apple (AAPL) products are difficult to repair now haven’t seen anything yet. A Reddit user named “thrownawayyesok” has posted a picture of …
Court makes spying on Americans legal with new warrantless wiretap ruling
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of President George W. Bush’s controversial Terrorist Surveillance Program, which allows the government to spy on …
HP braces for record $9 billion quarterly loss
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced on Wednesday that it will report its biggest-ever quarterly loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2012. Amid a number of organizational …
Budget operators keep shocking Wall Street
It was another quarter of shocks and surprises for small budget wireless operators offering cheap mobile plans. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ) chugged along …
132-page internal document shows how Samsung set out to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel
An internal memo from February 2010 emerged in the Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) trial on Monday that was fairly damaging to Samsung’s case. In …
BlackBerry 10 predicted to flop, could result in Samsung acquiring RIM
Jefferies & Company analyst Peter Misek thinks BlackBerry 10 will be a significant improvement over previous versions of the operating system, but that it’s not good …
Verizon has five secret data plans you can only get if you know about them
Verizon Wireless (VZ) killed its previous data plan offerings in late June and replaced them with a series of “Share Everything” plans, which give smartphone …
