Verizon scraps plan for $2 billing fee
Verizon Wireless on Friday announced that it is canceling plans to charge a $2 convenience fee to customers making one-time bill payments online or over …
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Chinese vendors form alliance to battle Apple and other patent predators
Handset makers in China have formed an alliance to prepare for possible patent battles with Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. Coolpad, Konka, TCL, ZTE and Lenovo …
Samsung ships 1 million Galaxy Note units and confirms U.S. launch
Samsung recently announced that it has shipped more than 1 million Galaxy Note smartphones. The Galaxy Note, often considered a mix between a tablet and …
SEC charges former Deutsche Telekom execs with bribery
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged former executives at Deutsche Telekom’s Magyar Telekom unit with bribery and violating the Foreign Corrupt …
Looking back at 2011: HP kills, revives and then open sources webOS
There’s no question about it: HP made one of the biggest blunders of the year when it comes to how the company handled Palm and …
Looking back at 2011: Google eyes Motorola buy in bid for Android control, patent ammo
2011 was a wild, wild year to follow the technology industry. AT&T failed to buy T-Mobile USA, things got rough for RIM and Apple and Samsung …
Amazon: More than 4 million Kindles sold this holiday season
Amazon announced on Thursday that the 2011 holiday season was the best ever for sales of its Kindle devices. While the online retailer didn’t specifically …
Sony PlayStation Vita sales plummet during second week of availability
Sony’s PlayStation Vita portable gaming console launched in Japan with wind in its sails, but the device’s success appears to have been short lived. A …
Intel may unveil new 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on April 8th
Intel could be preparing to unveil most of its next-generation 22nm Ivy Bridge processors “on or around” April 8th according to a recent rumor. The company is …
HP reportedly tried to offload Palm assets for $1.2 billion
Hewlett-Packard has made some wild decisions regarding Palm and webOS following the acquisition in 2010. HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in April of last …
Holiday spending jumps 15% from last year to $35.3 billion
U.S. Consumers spent $35.3 billion during this year’s holiday season, up 15% from the same period last year. Shoppers also spent a total of $2.8 …
Google+ reportedly passes 62 million users, adding 625,000 new users per day
If you turned on your television over the holidays you most likely encountered one of many Google advertisements. The Mountain View company has been pushing brand …
Kindle accessory maker sues Amazon for extortion
M-Edge Accessories has filed a lawsuit against Amazon with a federal court in Maryland that accuses the online retailer of bullying it into coughing up …
Looking back at 2011: RIM on the ropes
2011 was a huge year for the wireless industry. Global mobile connections surpassed 6 billion as the world’s total population hit 7 billion people, and …
Apple’s Siri-powered HDTV could offer customized channel subscriptions
Apple’s much rumored Siri-powered HDTV may offer a feature many TV viewers have been wanting for quite some time: customized channel lineups. According to Sterne Agee …
Samsung aims to sell 374 million phones next year, up 15% from 2011
Samsung hopes to sell 374 million phones next year, up 15% from the 325 million the company expects to have sold in 2011. The South …
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung and four others create joint venture for LTE development
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC and Panasonic announced plans on Tuesday to establish a joint venture in which the firms hope to work …
AT&T completes $1.9 billion acquisition of Qualcomm spectrum
Following the FCC’s approval last week, AT&T announced Tuesday that it has finalized its acquisition of Qualcomm’s 700MHz spectrum licenses. The spectrum, which was previously …
Samsung, Sharp and others to pay $553 million fine for LCD price-fixing scheme
Samsung, Sharp, Innolux Corp, Hitachi, HannStar Display Corp, Chungwha Picture Tubes and Epson Imaging Devices Corp will pay a total of $553 million to settle …
Italy fines Apple $1.2 million for misleading consumers
Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Apple Sales International, Apple Italia Srl and Apple Retail Italia a total of $1.2 million for “unfair commercial practices.” According to …
Free, legal Siri port now available for iPhone 4 and other iOS 5 devices
News of a new untethered jailbreak solution for all iOS 5.0.1 devices other than Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 emerged this morning, and iOS …
Looking back at 2011: AT&T’s bid to acquire T-Mobile is defeated
AT&T made headlines in March of this year when it announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Here we are …
Apple to launch completely redesigned iPhone in Fall 2012
BGR has learned a number of details surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone from a close source. For starters, we can now confidently say that Apple’s next iPhone …
Acer to stick with tablets despite poor sales
Acer will continue to launch new tablets in 2012 despite slow sales of the company’s current tablet models. Commenting on rumors that Acer might slow its …
Republic Wireless ditches limits on its $19 unlimited plan
Republic Wireless, a Sprint MVNO that launched in November, announced late last week that it is ditching its “fair use threshold” and is now offering …
iPhone and iPad users account for 92% of mobile purchases, study finds
Users of Apple’s iPhone smartphones and its iPad line of tablets accounted for 92% of all mobile purchases made thus far in December, a recent …
Samsung to buy Sony’s share of S-LCD joint venture for $940 million
Samsung will purchase Sony’s 50% share of S-LCD, a joint venture created by both companies in 2004, for $939.6 million. Both companies will continue to …
Hynix, Micron turn to Taiwan following Apple’s Anobit buy
News broke earlier this week that Apple has acquired Israel-based fabless flash memory firm Anobit for as much as $400 million according to TheMarker, adding …
Apple details international launch of iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud
Apple recently posted a support page with information about the international rollout of iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud. iTunes Match is now officially …
2012 may be a flat year for PC shipments, analyst says
Despite the launch of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system and the introduction of ultra-thin Intel-powered ultrabooks, Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes thinks the PC industry …
