Live from Intel’s CES 2012 keynote
Day 1 of the Consumer Electronics Show is drawing to a close, and a keynote featuring Intel is the perfect way to end the day. …
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Live from Qualcomm’s CES 2012 keynote
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave his last CES keynote on Monday night and while it did mark the end of an era, things are just …
Victorinox squeezes 1TB of high-speed storage into a Swiss Army Knife
Victorinox, the maker of the Swiss Army Knife, announced two new portable storage devices at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday. The company unveiled the …
Parrot announces the highflying HD-recording AR.Drone 2.0 quadcopter
During the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, Parrot wowed show-goers with the AR.Drone quadcopter. Fast forward two years and Parrot has done it again, announcing the …
Live from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s CES 2012 keynote
It’s the end of an era. Microsoft announced last month that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show keynote will be the company’s last for the foreseeable future. The …
Live from Nokia’s CES 2012 press conference
Nokia recently announced its first Windows Phone for the U.S. market late last year — T-Mobile’s Lumia 710 — but the Finnish vendor has a …
Live from Samsung’s CES 2012 press conference
We saw a few new Samsung phones revealed during AT&T’s press conference Monday morning. Coming soon to AT&T’s smartphone lineup are the Galaxy Note and the …
HTC Titan II with 4G LTE and 16 megapixel camera is official for AT&T
HTC CEO Peter Chou, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega introduced the HTC Titan II for AT&T on Monday …
Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers
Apple has just seeded iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers via OTA installation. We’ll update you on any changes we find, and we’ll post the …
Live from the AT&T Developer Summit at CES 2012
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show doesn’t officially begin until Tuesday, but the action started over the weekend and things will really start to pick up …
Corning announces tougher and thinner Gorilla Glass 2
Corning has officially announced Gorilla Glass 2, the company’s next generation of damage-resistant glass. Gorilla Glass 2 is 20% thinner than its predecessor and will …
Live from LG’s CES 2012 press conference
The Consumer Electronics show is always a massive event for the home entertainment industry, and 2012 is shaping up to be the biggest year yet. …
Acer to launch iCloud knockoff in the second quarter of 2012
Acer recently announced the company’s intent to enter into the cloud game with the introduction of AcerCloud. The service will be available for Android devices and bundled …
Apple may open stores inside 25 Target locations
Apple may be planning to open retail stores inside as many as 25 Target locations, according to recent rumors. The partnership would likely be similar …
Apple will continue to earn majority of app download revenue in 2012
Apple will earn more than 53% of all mobile app download revenue this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The research firm …
Nokia acquires Smarterphone AS, eyes feature phone rebound
Nokia has acquired Oslo, Norway-based cell phone operating system developer Smarterphone AS as it prepares to launch a reinvigorated attack on emerging markets. The transaction …
Sprint boots four execs, restructures enterprise and consumer businesses
Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse said in a note to employees Friday that Sprint will merge the marketing and sales teams of its enterprise and consumer …
Motorola Mobility misses Q4 estimates on shipments of 10.5 million phones
Motorola Mobility on Friday revealed preliminary results for the fourth calendar quarter of 2011. When the vendor reports its full results on January 26th, it …
We’ll be reporting live from CES 2012 next week
To tech-obsessed consumers around the world, the start of a new year means more than watching the ball drop and having to hang a new …
Poor Lumia sales may have pushed Nokia back into acquisition talks with Microsoft
Poor sales of the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 may have prompted Nokia to resume acquisition talks with Microsoft during November, according to a recent …
Kazuo Hirai to take over as Sony president, Stringer remains as CEO
Kazuo Hirai will take over as the president of Sony in the next few months, Nikkei reported on Friday. Howard Stringer, who previously had served as …
iPhone 4S remains best-seller at top three carriers in December
Apple’s latest iPhone propelled what analysts are predicting will be Apple’s biggest-ever quarter, and the handset ended the year with strong holiday sales, maintaining its position as …
Best Buy reports lower than expected December sales
Best Buy on Friday reported weaker than expected revenue for the five weeks ended December 31st, 2011. The company noted $8.4 billion in revenue, which …
HTC profit dives 26% in Q4 on stalled smartphone sales
As Samsung reported record preliminary results on Friday, rival HTC revealed a sharp drop in profit for the fourth quarter that the company foreshadowed this …
Samsung racks up record Q4 profit on huge smartphone sales
Samsung shipped an estimated 35 million smartphones in the fourth quarter — up from 27.9 million in the third quarter when it passed Apple to …
Apple to pay Taiwanese firm $5 million in patent settlement
Apple will pay $5 million to settle a patent lawsuit with the Taiwan-based firm Elan, a report said Thursday. According to its website, Elan focuses …
MetroPCS adds 197,000 subscribers in Q4 but misses expectations
MetroPCS on Thursday announced its fourth quarter 2011 subscriber results. The carrier added 197,000 net subscribers, which missed analyst expectations that the carrier would add …
Album sales jump in U.S. for the first time since 2004
Album sales in the United States jumped 3% during 2011 according to one report. That may seem like minor growth, but it is actually the …
Microsoft patent suggests Xbox 720 with DVR support in the works
A patent that was granted to Microsoft in December suggests the company is working on an Xbox game console that will double as a digital …
9% of U.S. consumers have canceled cable TV, study says
9% of consumers in the United States have already cut cable TV service from their monthly utility bills, the latest State of the Media Democracy …
