HTC profit plummets 58% in Q2
HTC on Friday reported disappointing unaudited second-quarter earnings that showed a huge drop in profit as the struggling smartphone maker’s woes continue. The Taiwan-based vendor …
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Mobile ad spending may triple to $7.1 billion by 2015, study projects
Get ready for even more annoying advertisements to pop up during Angry Birds. Per Mobile Business Briefing, a new study from Juniper Research projects that …
Judge in Apple patent case says patent system is a mess
Judge Richard Posner, last seen dismissing an Apple-Motorola patent dispute with prejudice, has added some more thoughts to the current state of the patent system …
Former Microsoft exec: Microsoft has ‘become the thing they despised’
Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades. In recent years, however, …
A Chinese company you’ve never heard of says it invented Siri first
There’s been a lot of angst recently over America’s trade deficit with China, but it seems the United States has finally found something that it …
A cotton T-shirt may one day charge your cell phone
Two engineers at the University of South Carolina conducted research that showed a modified store-bought T-shirt can act like a supercapacitor and store an electrical …
Meet the new spray-on battery that comes in a can
Scientific American reports that a team of scientists from Rice University in Houston and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have been working on a …
RIM under pressure to slash carrier fees, which now account for one-third of revenue
When it rains, it pours. And in RIM’s case, it turns into a Noah-style biblical flood. Bloomberg News, via The Financial Post, reports that the troubled …
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden is in bed with the MPAA
The strange and amusing saga of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom took another interesting twist on Tuesday when Dotcom told TorrentFreak that none other than Vice President …
Huawei Ascend P1 review
Huawei isn’t a well known brand when it comes to the U.S. smartphone market. The Chinese manufacturer is looking to change that, however, and plans …
Twisted light: New tech can transmit 70 DVDs worth of data per second
A team of researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a data transmission technology capable of moving the equivalent of 70 DVDs in one …
U.K. Judge clears HTC phones of infringing on Apple patents
U.K. Judge Christopher Floyd ruled on Wednesday that HTC’s phones do not infringe on Apple’s patents, Bloomberg reports. The patents, which include Apple’s well known …
Samsung Galaxy Nexus pulled from Google store following ban; software patch coming
Samsung is celebrating Independence Day this year by working vigorously with Google to issue a software patch that will allow sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone to …
ACTA anti-piracy treaty dead following defeat in European Parliament
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been defeated one last time following a European Parliament vote on Wednesday. The proposed legislation was often likened …
Toshiba hit with $87 million fine over LCD price fixing scandal
A Northern California jury on Tuesday found Toshiba guilty of conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal displays. Customers brought a civil lawsuit against the …
Netflix subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video in June
Netflix on Tuesday revealed that its subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video for the first time ever in June. The company’s CEO Reed …
Apple loses bid to ban HTC phones
Although Apple scored a big victory in its efforts to muck up Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales last week, it will have no such satisfaction …
Google+ is an uninviting digital man cave, say female technologists
Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that’s the impression that five female technologists gave during …
Verizon laying off 950 workers at Houston call center
Verizon Wireless notified one of its call centers in Houston, Texas about plans to close the facility. The center houses 943 employees, all of whom …
Samsung loses appeal to lift Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban
A judge with the United States District Court for Northern California has rejected Samsung’s appeal to a lift a sales ban of its Galaxy Tab …
Nokia could be a litigation nightmare for Google’s Asian Android partners
Nokia’s ace in the patent wars is the breadth of its portfolio. Nokia was central in developing GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE and Wi-Fi …
Amazon eyes Apple’s new maps, acquires 3D mapping startup UpNext
Amazon on Monday reportedly closed a deal to acquire 3D mapping startup UpNext, according to GigaOM. The acquisition will thrust the retail giant into new …
Apple stock hits $600 for first time since April
Shares of Apple’s stock hit the $600-mark on Tuesday for the first time since April 27th. The company’s stock price sky-rocketed earlier this year after Apple …
How a century of telephone expertise doomed Ericsson
The mobile phone industry is used to vendors flaming out, sometimes just a couple of years after companies peak. Yet few handset companies have self-destructed …
RIM CEO: There’s nothing wrong with our company
5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? “‘Tis but a scratch,” says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.com reports that …
And the world’s most popular browser is… who knows?
Computer World's Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in …
Facebook will ‘look into’ its own sneaky email switching
Facebook royally ticked off many of its users last week when it made their @facebook.com email addresses the primary ones displayed on profile pages without …
Beats Electronics officially acquires MOG music service
Beats Electronics has finally acquired subscription music service MOG. “Beats was created as a response to the complete erosion of the music experience,” Beats' president …
Sony acquires cloud gaming service Gaikai for $380 million
Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony's gaming arm, announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire California-based cloud gaming firm Gaikai Inc. for $380 million. Sony …
Windows Phone sales top iPhone and match Android… in Finland
After struggling for nearly two years, Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is finally starting to gain substantial ground… in Finland. Nokia's strong presence in its home …
