Can these four superheroes rescue RIM?
Research In Motion’s newly appointed CEO Thorsten Heins said during his first day on the job that hiring a new marketing boss and revamping the …
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Sprint gives LightSquared six more weeks to gain FCC approval
Sprint has granted LightSquared six more weeks to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its network. This is the second time the …
Apple hires former Dixons CEO John Browett as Senior VP of Retail
Apple has hired Dixons Retail chief executive officer John Browett to run its retail business as senior VP of retail. Browett will assume his new …
U.S. chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra to step down
Aneesh Chopra will step down from his position as the United States chief technology officer. The move is expected to be imminent and, while it’s …
Apple could sell as many as 40 million iPhones in China next year
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty believes Apple will partner up with both China Telecom and China Mobile over the next year, and will eventually make …
Megaupload user data purge could begin Thursday [updated]
Third-party companies that stored Megaupload’s data may delete all user files on Thursday. Megaupload customers, even those not guilty of piracy or using the service …
Canalys: Apple blazes past HP to dominate global PC market in Q4
Apple pulled ahead of HP in the fourth quarter to become the largest player in the client PC market, a new report suggested Monday. The …
Proposed congressional bill targets Carrier IQ and other mobile tracking software
Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts released a draft of his cell phone privacy bill on Monday. The Mobile Device Privacy Act is designed to …
President Obama to host a Google+ hangout Monday at 5:30PM
President Obama will be hosting his first Google+ hangout tonight at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. In the discussion, the president will be answering questions that were …
Former RIM co-CEO Lazaridis says he planned to step down for years
Former Research In Motion co-CEO and co-Chairman Mike Lazaridis said in a recent interview that he had been planning to step down from his role …
Samsung marketing boss: Consumers should be obsessed with Samsung, not Apple
Samsung’s new run of television commercials is the start of a wider effort to make the company’s products the apple of the U.S. consumer’s eye. …
First look at SlingPlayer for Amazon’s Kindle Fire
Sling Media has been the go-to provider for video placeshifting solutions for nearly seven years now. The California-based company launched its first Slingbox in 2005, …
Barnes & Noble’s next Nook said to launch this spring
Barnes & Noble’s fifth-generation “e-reading device” will reportedly launch this coming spring. Mentioned in passing within a New York Times profile of the struggling bookseller, …
Microsoft and Asus may be working on Kinect-enabled Windows 8 laptops
Asus is reportedly working on Windows 8 laptops that are equipped with Microsoft’s Kinect technology. The Daily recently reported that it was able to “check out” …
Twitter announces ability to censor content by region
Twitter announced recently that it now has the ability to, and will begin to, censor content on the social network by country. “As we continue …
Apple, Google and others face antitrust lawsuit over secret no-poaching agreements
Apple, Google and five other technology companies must face a lawsuit for violating antitrust laws, according to a federal judge. The two companies, along with …
Facebook reportedly plans IPO filing for Wednesday
Facebook plans to file for its initial public offering as soon as Wednesday next week according to multiple reports from Dow Jones Newswires. Morgan Stanley …
Google addresses concerns over new privacy policy
Earlier this week, Google announced that the company would combine individual privacy policies from a variety of its products into one main policy. The idea …
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein leaves HP
Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm, has left HP. AllThingsD broke the news Friday afternoon, noting that Rubinstein had served his promised 12-24 month tenure …
New RIM CEO admits Apple and Google are winning, says change is coming
Investors had been clamoring for Research In Motion co-founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis to relinquish their co-CEO and co-chairman roles, and the company finally announced …
Apple CEO: ‘We care about every worker in our supply chain’
The New York Times recently published an article discussing the unsafe working conditions in the factories Apple employs to build its products. It’s no secret that …
Apple reclaims No.1 smartphone spot in Q4
Apple is once again the top smartphone vendor in the world by shipment volume according to a report released late Thursday. Market research firm Strategy …
German court dismisses second Samsung patent suit against Apple
One week after dismissing Samsung’s first German patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, a German court has also rejected a second suit, reports Florian Mueller of …
iPad owns 96% of enterprise market and iPhone share climbs to 53%, study finds
Enterprise mobile vendor Good Technology published a new study on Thursday revealing iOS’s massive market share in the corporate world. The iPad accounted for 96% of …
Apple to offer employees a $500 discount on Macs, $250 off of an iPad
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly said during an Apple Town Hall meeting on Wednesday that Apple employees will receive a generous discount on Apple products …
Intel to buy 190 patents and video codec software from RealNetworks for $120 million
Intel and RealNetworks announced on Thursday that Intel will purchase video codec software, 190 patents and 170 patent applications from RealNetworks for a total of …
Samsung’s Q4 delivers record $4.7 billion in profit on $42 billion in revenue
Samsung on Friday reported record earnings for the fourth quarter last year. In line with the company’s estimates as reported earlier this month, Samsung recorded …
Nintendo cuts 3DS sales forecast, will report first annual loss
Nintendo recently published a note in which it said it will report an annual operating loss of 45 billion yen ($575 million) for the December …
Spotify surpasses 3 million paid subscribers
Spotify said Thursday that it now serves more than 3 million active paid subscribers per month, up from the 2.5 million subscribers it was serving …
Motorola posts $80 million Q4 loss; ships 10.5 million mobile devices including 200,000 tablets
Motorola Mobility on Thursday announced the company’s results for the fourth quarter last year. The vendor managed $3.4 billion in revenue but posted a net …
