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 …
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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 …
Samsung loses bid to ban iPhone 4S sales in Italy
Judge Marina Tavassi of the Tribunale di Milano has rejected Samsung’s request for a preliminary injunction against the sale of the iPhone 4S in Italy, reports …
RIM reportedly intends to license BlackBerry software to Samsung, HTC and others
Research In Motion is reportedly working toward a major transition that will see the company begin licensing its BlackBerry software to third-party vendors including Samsung …
Nokia Lumia 710 review
Nokia proved it was back in the smartphone game when it launched the Lumia 800 last year. But can its Lumia 710 gain the attention of …
Apple patents suggest Thunderbolt coming to iOS devices
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published three Thunderbolt related patents that suggest Apple may have plans to build Intel’s Thunderbolt connections into its …
Google’s Nexus tablet may push Android partners out of the picture
Media tablets powered by Google’s Android operating system have for the most part been unable to capture consumers’ interest. With just a few exceptions, sales …
Global telecommunications industry revenue to reach $2.1 trillion in 2012
Worldwide telecommunications industry revenue is set to reach $2.1 trillion this year according to market research firm Insight Research Corp. Despite the rocky global economy, …
AT&T to pay TiVo $215 million through 2018 to settle patent lawsuit
AT&T has settled a patent lawsuit with TiVo in which it will pay the DVR vendor $215 million through June 2018, including an initial payment …
Microsoft sues firm for selling 94,000 counterfeit copies of Vista and XP
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Comet Group, LLC. for creating and selling more than 94,000 counterfeit recovery discs for Windows Vista and Windows XP. …
Kodak reportedly preparing for bankruptcy filing
Eastman Kodak could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this month or in early February according to a recent report. The troubled camera maker will …
Apple taps former Adobe exec to run iAds
Apple has reportedly hired a former Adobe executive to run its iAd division, which was being led by Eddie Cue after Andy Miller left the …
