LG Display employees charged with stealing trade secrets from Samsung
LG Display on Tuesday announced that 11 people, including six of its own employees, have been charged with stealing advanced OLED TV display technology from …
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Samsung scores more ammo for Apple patent war
Samsung on Tuesday confirmed that it has acquired a portfolio of mobile and location patents from British chipmaker CSR for $310 million, as well as …
Barnes & Noble’s first big move since tie-up with Microsoft: Help users ditch tablets
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft announced in late April that the companies were uniting in a spinoff that would focus on B&N’s digital Nook business, …
Yahoo beats Q2 earnings with $0.27 per share as new CEO Marissa Mayer takes the reins
Yahoo on Tuesday reported its second quarter earnings, beating Wall Street’s earnings expectations of $0.23 per share on $1.096 billion in revenue. The firm posted …
Google+ tops Facebook in customer satisfaction study
While some reports claim that Google’s social network site is a “ghost town,” a new study suggest that users are more satisfied with Google+ than …
Google declares war on free clicks
Google is an advertising company first and foremost, but the big revenue the company sees from ads is funding the rest of the company’s efforts …
U.S. ban on 18 Motorola smartphones and tablets starts tomorrow
The United States International Trade Commission in May ordered an import ban on various Motorola Mobility Android devices for infringing upon Microsoft’s patent covering the creation …
The mobile data mirage
We’ve all seen the tantalizing curve that represents the mobile data explosion. A good example is that Cisco report from last February projecting 18-fold increase …
Motorola’s Xoom tablet cleared following Apple patent attack
A German court on Tuesday ruled that Motorola’s original Xoom tablet does not infringe upon a patent covering the design of Apple’s iPad, Fox Business …
Anti-piracy group fined for stealing music
Oh, the irony. A musicians’ rights group in the Netherlands was fined this week for stealing music from a client, using it without his permission …
Microsoft working to fix Skype bug that sends private messages to the wrong contacts [updated]
Numerous Skype users have posted complaints on the company’s Support Network about a bug that is sending messages to random users on their contact list. …
‘Anonymous’ hacker group declares war on pedophiles [video]
The U.S. Government and various global authorities label “Anonymous” as cyberterrorist and criminals, but others refer to the group as freedom fighters and protectors of …
Nintendo continues to dominate portable console gaming as U.S. 3DS sales top 5 million
Nintendo announced last week that sales of its 3DS portable gaming console surpassed 5 million units in the United States, a 500,000 device increase from …
Apple is once again expected to crush Q3 with near-record earnings
Despite some analyst fears that Apple may miss Wall Street’s consensus when it reports its quarterly earnings next week, others suggest the iPhone-maker will report …
While trying to save over $1 billion, RIM forced to pay $150 million in patent suit damages
A northern California jury recently found that troubled handset-maker Research In Motion infringed upon Mformation Technologies’s patent covering a remote management system for wireless devices. …
Dodging sales tax is getting harder for Amazon and other online retailers
In the past there have been numerous advantages when ordering from online retailers like Amazon. Along with lower prices and free shipping, the majority of …
‘Anonymous’ hackers target Exxon, Shell and others for melting polar ice caps
Anonymous hackers have released more than 1,000 email credentials from five multinational oil companies that the group accuses of being responsible for the melting polar …
Top Google executive Marissa Mayer named Yahoo CEO
($YHOO) Yahoo on Monday named Marissa Mayer the company’s new president and CEO. Mayer was one of the earliest employees with Google, joining the Internet giant …
Sprint’s flagship EVO 4G LTE finally gets a 4G LTE network to support it
Sprint’s 4G LTE network is only one day old and it’s already ahead of the game. The nation’s No.3 carrier must have been feeling guilty …
‘Copyright cop’ anti-piracy ISP system delayed once again
Internet service providers are still planning to implement their plan to kick software pirates off their networks… at some point. The Daily Dot reports that the …
Verizon’s slick spectrum salesmanship doesn’t persuade DOJ
In many ways, Verizon has gone about its attempts to acquire more LTE spectrum much more wisely than AT&T did with its failed T-Mobile merger. …
Nokia shuts down two China-based offices as troubles persist
Being a struggling company means layoffs and office closures, and Nokia is sadly no exception. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia is shutting down two of …
Apple is going after retailers for selling banned Samsung products
The patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has turned in the iPhone-maker’s favor over the past couple of weeks. After the Cupertino-based company successfully halted …
Mac growth topped Windows for 25th consecutive quarter in Q2
Shipments of Apple computers appear to have outgrown Windows PC shipments for the 25th consecutive quarter in Q2 2012, reports Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt. Following the release of …
Man attempts to live open source life for a year, including DIY condoms [video]
A 28-year-old New Zealand-born filmmaker from Berlin is attempting to drastically change his lifestyle. Sam Muirhead plans to abandon all copyrighted products for one year …
Apple caves following flood of complaints, returns to EPEAT ratings
Apple recently found itself fielding criticism for its decision to remove a number of its products from the EPEAT environmental rating system. The Cupertino-based company on …
What is RIM worth?
Research In Motion was coy at first regarding the exploration a possible sale, but chief executive Thorsten Henis openly admitted that the company will explore …
Samsung’s new North American sales strategy: Rip off Apple Stores [video]
Other designs are possible. Whether or not Samsung builds devices that are “copies” of Apple’s iPhone and iPad models is open to debate, but there’s …
More bad news: Developers are giving up on BlackBerry, too [updated]
Research In Motion has shown us some pretty awesome things so far with BlackBerry 10. Areas of the mobile OS look fresh and exciting, and …
Toshiba and LG settle LCD price-fixing scandal for half a billion dollars
Toshiba, LG and AU Optronics have agreed to pay a combined sum of $571 million to settle a lawsuit over a liquid crystal display price-fixing …
