Apple’s biggest compromise with the iPhone 5c
Apple bills itself as a company that doesn’t want to make compromises when it comes to its products. The iPhone was slow to get 3G …
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Samsung: Apple blinded jurors with ‘appeals to racial prejudice’
Sure, Samsung has now seen two juries slap it with gigantic penalties for allegedly infringing upon Apple’s patents. That isn’t stopping the company from hoping …
The best smartphones in the world, 2013 edition (part 1)
Another year is almost behind us and if you were following the smartphone industry, which continues to be the biggest market in consumer tech, it …
Amazon reportedly launching Kindle smartphones in early 2014
Amazon’s Kindle line of smartphones is a lot like Apple’s television set: A mythical creature that is only whispered of among analysts and supply chain …
Video: Is this Apple’s best iPhone commercial ever?
Apple is hitting consumers where it hurts ahead of Christmas this year: right in the heartstrings. The company on Monday evening began running a brand …
Facebook invades your feed with auto-play video ads
Facebook on Tuesday confirmed that it will bring auto-playing video ads to the news feed only hours after The Wall Street Journal published a story saying that …
Microsoft desperately needs to find its new CEO soon
As Microsoft’s CEO search has dragged on and on, we’ve been treated to a series of leaks about its future plans that in many cases …
This is why Amazon will soar in the smartphone market
According to a brand new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, those Amazon customers who own a Kindle spend $1,223 on Amazon products annually. Amazon customers without …
Kinect-like face recognition, touchless control tipped for Surface Mini
The rumored Surface Mini Windows tablet that wasn’t introduced alongside the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 earlier this year is still coming, a …
Facebook ‘dislike’ button is finally here, but only in Messenger
Facebook has updated its Messenger app with a new set of stickers that include a “dislike” button, All Facebook reports, a feature that some users …
That iPhone 5s ‘marketing gimmick’ apparently ‘set off panic in the industry’
Apple’s 64-bit A7 chip found inside the iPhone 5s, but also the 2013 family of iPads, is the feature that surprised the competition, setting off …
Apple is going all-out to bring advertisers to iTunes Radio
If iTunes Radio is going to become a key component to Apple’s infrastructure lineup, the company is going to have to bring advertisers to the platform …
Samsung reportedly charging out the gates in 2014 with 4 new tablets
If Samsung really is as determined as we’ve been hearing to establish itself as a leader in terms of gadget innovation then we can expect …
NSA spying has triggered a crazy chain reaction of countermeasures
Countries ranging from France to Finland have started responding to NSA revelations in different ways, ranging from new fiber optic cables to government-backed industrial espionage. By …
Google steals star engineer away from Microsoft
Google may be increasing its focus on robots, but it looks like the company still has use for humans as well (even if it only …
Here’s why your Verizon LTE downloads are taking longer than usual
Has Verizon’s super-fast LTE network been less super-fast than normal for you lately? If so then you can blame the surge in video streaming that …
Having second thoughts? Here’s how to unsend Instagram Direct messages
At a press conference last week, Instagram unveiled a new feature for its mobile apps called Instagram Direct. With messaging apps having been identified as …
Forbes: PS4, Xbox One and Wii U are all winning next-gen console war
It’s hard for some gamers to admit this, but the best possible conclusion to the overhyped console war of 2013 would be three systems that …
Here’s why Apple doesn’t stand a chance when it comes to tablet market share
It’s a well-known fact that the tablet market has become increasingly competitive in recent years, but one small manufacturer is attempting to undercut even the …
AT&T wants to track your illegal downloads, ban access to file-sharing sites
A new AT&T patent awarded in mid November describes methods through which the Internet service provider may track the privacy-related habits of customers and assign …
Windows 9 concept: Saving Windows from itself with a focus on ‘little things’
After hearing that Microsoft may bring back the Start menu button to Windows starting with the next major release, codenamed “Threshold,” a user imagined some …
68% of Americans projected to own an iPhone by 2017
Apple’s iPhone lineup is losing ground to Android globally when it comes to smartphone market share, with the latest numbers suggesting Android’s share of the …
How to make money by turning your Android phone into an SMS spambot
We’ve heard a lot about Android security flaws this year but what happens when Android users voluntarily allow third parties to turn their smartphones into text-messaging spambots? BBC …
BlackBerry may have burned through $800 million last quarter alone
Just about everyone expects BlackBerry’s next earnings report to be a complete horror show, as the company’s fruitless effort to take itself private scared away …
Inside the NSA: Former NSA cyber spy shares his story
This has been a very rough year for the National Security Agency. Morale is reportedly at an all-time low as revelations on the extent of …
The 10 worst video game consoles of all time
In the relatively brief history of video game consoles, we have seen many more failures than successes. Consoles have failed for various reasons, from poor …
Video: iPhone 6 concept imagines an EYE ID retina scanner
The same design team that imagined the iPhone Air and curved iPhone 6c concepts has also worked on an iPhone 6 concept that would offer …
The biggest threat to Samsung’s gadget empire
Samsung’s rise to become one of the world’s true smartphone powerhouses has been one of the biggest stories in tech over the past couple of …
Is this Microsoft’s next big Windows Phone update? [updated]
Now that the Nokia acquisition is all but finalized, Microsoft is back at work improving Windows Phone. The latest leaked image from @evleaks shows off …
The 5 craziest robots in Google’s growing android army
With news breaking late last week that Google has acquired cutting-edge robotics firm Boston Dynamics, we thought it would be a good time to check …
