Google acquires 217 new patents from IBM
Google recently purchased 217 patents from IBM, including 28 published patents and 188 of IBM’s granted patents. The transaction was posted in the United States …
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Kindle Fire may have cost Apple $1 billion or more in holiday iPad sales
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire was a hot item during the holiday shopping season, and one analyst believes the new Amazon tablet may have cost Apple …
Ticonderoga: iTV, ‘iPad mini’ and iPhone 5 with NFC and 4G extend Apple’s lead in 2012
Apple will further extend its lead in the technology sector this year as it launches a number of new products that will leave its competition …
Lazaridis and Balsillie to be ousted as co-chairmen, report claims
In light of increased pressure from shareholders, Research In Motion is preparing to replace current co-chairmen of the board Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. The …
New sale cuts BlackBerry PlayBook price by as much as $400
Research In Motion’s debut tablet has been something of a disappointment for the Waterloo, Ontario-based vendor. While the slate showed promise, it failed to offer …
Sprint gives LightSquared 30 extra days to gain FCC clearance
Sprint recently told LightSquared that it has an additional 30 days to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its 4G LTE network. …
Samsung may reenter Japanese TV market
Samsung may soon begin selling its televisions in Japan after taking a several year hiatus. Samsung is reportedly talking to Yamada Denki Co and Yodobashi …
Text message decline could affect AT&T and Verizon soon, analyst says
Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst for MGI Research recently wrote a column for Forbes in which he noted that text messaging rates are declining in several …
Apple planning media-related New York City event for end of January [updated]
AllThingsD is reporting that Apple is planning a media-related event that will take place at the end of January. It’s said that the event won’t …
2011’s biggest stories
As 2012 approaches, we thought it would be fun to look back on 2011 one last time and share our biggest stories of the year …
On top of the world: A visit to the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball
Each year on the evening of December 31st an estimated one million people from around the world flock to New York City’s Times Square to …
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 …
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 …
