Facebook acquires Gowalla, service to begin ‘winding down’ in January
Gowalla on Monday confirmed it was recently acquired by Facebook. “About two months ago, my co-founder Scott and I attended F8,” Gowalla co-founder and CEO …
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Samsung puts $200 million aside for patent spats with Apple
Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung on Monday said that his company is ramping up its defense against Apple in 2012. Speaking to The Korea Times, Samsung’s chief …
Amazon may own half of Android tablet market next year
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet hasn’t even been available for a full month yet, but analysts and the media already seem comfortable declaring it the Android …
U.S. judge denies Apple’s attempt to ban Samsung Galaxy device sales
A United States judge has denied Apple’s formal request for an injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy family of smartphones and tablets. “It is not clear that …
Apple, Samsung and six more companies sued over Carrier IQ scandal
Apple, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Carrier IQ have been sued in a federal court by what the lawyers involved have deemed a …
RIM boss in Indonesia faces charges following BlackBerry stampede
Research In Motion’s top executive in Indonesia is facing charges from the government after more than 90 people were hurt when chaos broke out during …
Verizon Wireless acquires spectrum from Comcast, others for $3.6 billion
Verizon Wireless announced Friday that it plans to acquire 122 advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum licenses from SpectrumCo, a joint venture formed by Comcast, Time …
S&P cuts HP credit rating on lack of strategy, management turnover
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Hewlett-Packard’s credit rating earlier this week, citing poor policies, a high turnover rate among top executives and an …
Drunk RIM execs handcuffed to seats, force Air Canada to make emergency landing [updated]
Two Research In Motion executives were so drunk on a recent Air Canada flight that the airline was forced to make an emergency landing to …
Kindle Fire to be second hottest tablet behind iPad in Q4
Amazon’s Kindle Fire will be the second most popular tablet in the world this quarter according to new projections published on Friday by market research …
Syria bans iPhone to stifle protestors
The Syrian government recently banned the iPhone to stifle protestors communicating on social networks. Authorities are to “warn anyone against using the iPhone in Syria,” …
Lawsuits filed against HTC, Samsung and Carrier IQ
Class action lawsuits have been filed against Samsung, HTC and Carrier IQ. Carrier IQ has been in the spotlight after a security expert revealed that …
AT&T 4G LTE now live in New York, Phoenix; tests show blistering speeds up to 40Mbps
BGR noted during our hands-on look at the LG Nitro HD that AT&T’s next-generation 4G LTE network has gone live in New York ahead of …
BGR Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on the company’s future, U.S. plans
We had a chance to sit down with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop a few weeks ago in New York City to get a the skinny …
RIM says it will miss Q3 guidance, plans to book charge due to poor PlayBook sales
Research In Motion announced ahead of the trading day on Friday that it will miss its third fiscal quarter guidance when it reports its earnings …
Google said to be prepping Amazon Prime-like delivery service
Google is reportedly in talks with retailers in an effort to create a subscription-based expedited delivery service that will compete directly with Amazon Prime. Citing …
Sprint and Clearwire ink new 4G WiMAX and LTE agreement
Sprint and Clearwire on Thursday announced a new 4G LTE and WiMAX agreement that will extend over the next few years. The agreement could be …
Barnes & Noble Nook business jumps 85% to $220 million
Barnes & Noble on Thursday reported its results for the second fiscal quarter of 2012, in which it revealed its Nook business has seen stellar …
ISPs reportedly taking wrong approach to winning bandwidth battle
Data caps that wireless carriers and internet service providers often implement on heavy data users may not be the right solution for avoiding network congestion. …
Analyst trims iPad sales projections, raises iPhone estimates
JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a research note Thursday morning that he is adjusting his quarterly sales estimates for both the iPhone and …
Senate gives Carrier IQ until December 14th to address privacy concerns
Senator Al Franken, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on privacy, technology and law, sent a letter to Carrier IQ on Thursday asking the company to …
AT&T issues scathing response to FCC report [updated]
AT&T has issued a scathing letter in response to the FCC’s decision to release a staff report on its findings surrounding AT&T’s planned $39 billion …
Popularity of video calling set to explode, NPD says
Video calling has been extremely slow to catch on, but adoption is finally set to explode according to a recent forecast from NPD Group-owned market …
Nintendo Wii has biggest-ever Black Friday, new Zelda game sets sales record
Nintendo announced earlier this week that the company kicked off the holiday shopping season with a bang, having seen record-setting sales of its Wii and …
Samsung announces dual-core Exynos 5250 SoC clocked at 2GHz
Samsung on Wednesday announced the Exynos 5250, the company’s latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), which packs two ARM Cortex-A15 processors clocked at 2GHz. Samsung said the dual-core …
Record $1.25 billion spent online on historic Cyber Monday
U.S. consumers spent a record $1.25 billion online on Cyber Monday, the second time the U.S. has ever spent more than $1 billion online in …
ITC ruling clears HTC in patent case with former Apple subsidiary
The International Trade Commission has ruled that camera technology used in HTC devices does not infringe on patents registered to former Apple subsidiary FlashPoint Technology. …
BGR Interview: AT&T VP of Marketing Mike Woodward on 4G LTE and more
We had a chance to spend some time with AT&T Vice President of Marketing, Mike Woodward, a little while back to talk about AT&T’s first …
Apple seeks to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany
Samsung’s tweaks to the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 weren’t enough to satisfy Apple’s legal team. Apple successfully banned Samsung’s German subsidiaries from selling the Galaxy …
AT&T considering joint venture with T-Mobile if merger falls apart
AT&T is reportedly considering a joint venture with T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom instead of buying T-Mobile USA outright. Sources speaking to The Wall …
