Apple slides as Wall Street panics over potential iPhone sales miss
Apple’s stock continued to slide on Tuesday morning as some analysts suggest AT&T’s earnings point to a possible rare miss for the Cupertino, California-based company. …
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AT&T posts better-than-expected profit in Q1, sells record 5.5 million smartphones
AT&T on Tuesday reported its results for the first quarter of 2012. Following a record holiday quarter that saw the nation’s No.2 carrier pull in $0.42 …
Chrome 18 is world’s most popular browser, Internet Explorer 9 leads in North America
Internet monitoring firm Pingdom on Monday released a new report on global Web browser share by browser version. The company found Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 …
HTC may develop its own processors for low-end smartphones
HTC may be looking to follow in Samsung and Apple’s footsteps in developing its own processors, according to a rumor from China Times. The Taiwanese vendor has …
Facebook posts Q1 results: $205 million in profit on $1.06 billion in revenue
Facebook on Monday filed an updated version of its S-1 that included the company’s first-quarter results. The social networking giant saw $1.06 billion in revenue, …
Netflix beats estimates in Q1; posts narrower loss on $870 million in sales
Netflix posted its financial results for the first quarter of 2012 after the bell on Monday. The company reported a loss of $0.08 per share, …
Nokia breaks ground on new manufacturing facility in Vietnam
As previously reported, Nokia on Monday held a groundbreaking ceremony that kicked-off development of the company’s first manufacturing facility in Vietnam. The new plant is …
Hurt Locker producers file suit against 2,514 BitTorrent users
Voltage Pictures, the production studio behind the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker, has filed a new lawsuit in a federal court in Florida, according to …
Microsoft and Facebook announce $550 million patent deal
Microsoft and Facebook on Monday announced a $550 million patent agreement in which the social networking giant will purchase a portion of the patent portfolio …
Apple in settlement talks with Proview over iPad trademark dispute
Apple and Proview have initiated talks in an attempt to resolve an ongoing legal dispute over the iPad trademark, IDG News Services reported on Friday. …
Samsung’s iCloud competitor may be unveiled at Galaxy event on May 3rd
Samsung’s iCloud competitor, dubbed S-Cloud, may be unveiled at next month’s Galaxy S III announcement in London on May 3rd, a South Korean newspaper reported …
Canalys: Expect more big-box retailers to tumble
Following Best Buy’s announcement that it would shutter 50 retail locations as part of an effort to cut costs, one market research firm said it …
Samsung asserts eight more patents against Apple in California
Despite Samsung and Apple’s chief executives scheduled settlement talks, the Korean manufacturer has asserted eight additional patents against the Cupertino-based company. Two of the patents …
No-poaching antitrust case against Apple, Google and others will go to trial
Apple, Google and five other technology companies must face an antitrust lawsuit for illegally agreeing to not poach each other’s employees. District Judge Lucy Koh …
Apple welcomes trial over eBook price-fixing allegations
Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against allegations made the United States government surround a price-fixing scheme, Reuters reported on Wednesday. “Our …
‘Anonymous’ hackers to create a new social music platform [video]
A small group of coders claiming to be part of the hacker group “Anonymous” are creating a new social music platform, WIRED reported on Thursday. …
Microsoft posts Q3 beat: Operating income grows to $6.37 billion on $17.41 billion in sales
Following the huge loss reported by major mobile partner Nokia, Microsoft posted its fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday following the close of the market. Wall …
TIME accused of hacking Anonymous hackers’ position on TIME 100 list
“Anonymous Operations,” a global band of hacker-activists whose targets over the past year include the CIA and other government bodies, has been ranked No. 36 …
New York sues Sprint for $300 million over alleged tax fraud [updated]
New York on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp looking to collect more than $300 million, Reuters reported. The wireless company is accused …
‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars
Beginning in 2015, all new cars in the United States will likely need to be fitted with data-recording “black boxes” very similar to the devices …
iPhone sales to continue declining until ‘iPhone 5’ launch, Canaccord says
Sales of Apple’s popular iPhone line of smartphones will continue to decline until the next-generation model launches later this year according to one analyst. Mike …
Facebook’s record-setting IPO reportedly set for May 17th
Depending on whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approves the company’s paperwork, Facebook’s highly anticipated IPO could be coming on May 17th, TechCrunch reported …
Verizon reports Q1: Earnings up 16%, 734,000 net subscriber additions
Verizon on Wednesday reported earnings for the first quarter that narrowly beat analysts’ expectations. The nation’s top carrier posted a profit of $0.59 per share, …
Nokia posts huge $1.7 billion Q1 loss; sales boss resigns as smartphone sales plummet 50%
Nokia warned that its first-quarter earnings would be weak, and the numbers are now in. Revenue declined 30% to €7.4 billion, or $9.7 billion USD last …
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure said to power 1% of the Internet
Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure has seen tremendous growth and is silently becoming a core element of the Internet. According to research from DeepField Networks, one-third of the …
HTC One S review
HTC is in a bind, too. Not a Nokia-sized bind, perhaps, but a tough situation nonetheless. The Taiwan-based vendor has been making terrific smartphones for …
Twitter promises it will not become a patent troll
Twitter’s lead engineer confirmed in a post on the company’s blog on Tuesday that Twitter will not use its patents aggressively. “Patent trolling” is a …
Apple’s next iPhone launch could be most important in smartphone history
Apple’s iPhone 4S marked the biggest device launch in the company’s history. A number of industry watchers and news sites were expecting a completely redesigned handset, …
Windows Phone marketing boss leaves Microsoft after just five months
BGR exclusively broke the news last November that Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise services Gavin Kim had left the company to join Microsoft. As …
Windows 8 aims to take huge chunk of iPad share in less than a year
Microsoft and its partners have seemingly set some very lofty goals for Windows 8. Citing multiple anonymous sources at various unnamed Taiwan-based original device manufacturers, …
