Patent trolls may have found a way to make everyone hate them even more
Although patent trolls are already one of the least liked groups in the United States, they may have found a way to make themselves even …
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Samsung reportedly in talks to acquire stake in Best Buy [updated]
We learned on Friday that Samsung is set to bring in record profits this quarter, but that analysts do not believe smartphone-driven profit growth will …
SimCity developers reconsidering always-online requirement
Although it looked like the PR nightmare of the SimCity launch (both of them, in fact) might never end, EA and Maxis did eventually solve …
BlackBerry seen burning through its cash pile in just 18 months
How big of a bonfire can you make with a $2.6 billion cash pile? We may be about to find out. AllThingsD points us to …
Apple appeals guilty verdict in eBook price-fixing case
In July, when Apple was found guilty of fixing eBook prices, the company released a statement maintaining that it was innocent of any antitrust violations. …
Apple and Samsung are still the only smartphone companies winning in the U.S.
It’s hard to make a case that any company other than Apple or Samsung has any momentum in the American smartphone market. The latest numbers …
Retina-equipped iPad mini delay seemingly confirmed by new report
The evidence continues to stack up that the Retina-equipped iPad mini will not be released in 2013. According to Apple Insider, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian …
Lose money, no problem: Twitter’s IPO is a California dream
The tech industry is captivated by two upcoming IPO’s, which offer an interesting contrast. Twitter is a great example of what software companies used to …
iPhone 5s reigns as top-selling smartphone at all 4 major U.S. carriers
It might not come as much of a surprise since Apple posted record-breaking iPhone 5s and 5c sales at launch, but it’s still notable that the …
Did BlackBerry ever really stand a chance against iOS and Android?
There’s no shortage of articles out there — some of which may have been posted on BGR from time to time — highlighting all the …
Red Nokia Lumia 1520 phablet shown again in leaked picture
Now that we have an official date for Nokia’s press conference, it shouldn’t be long before the Nokia Lumia 1520 is finally publicly revealed. Several photos …
The bitterest pill: BlackBerry Z30 won’t be sold by Canada’s largest wireless carrier [updated]
It’s been an ugly year for BlackBerry so far and now it seems that the company can’t even count on one of its home country’s …
The alarming behavior of HTC’s management
The latest quarterly report horror from HTC had a psychologically fascinating element. The third-quarter loss of $100 million was nearly twice as big as the analyst consensus …
iPhone 5c price slashed to $50 at Best Buy after just 2 weeks
In a potentially ominous sign for early sales, Best Buy has slashed the price of the iPhone 5c in half after just two weeks. ABC …
HTC’s latest cunning comeback plan: Dual-boot Windows Phone onto its Android handsets
HTC may have found an even worse comeback plan than building a third Facebook phone. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Microsoft has approached HTC with …
HTC posts first ever quarterly loss on summer sales slide
Things are getting very ugly for HTC. Per Bloomberg, HTC on Friday released a horror-filled third-quarter earnings report showing that the company had posted a …
Samsung says it’s on pace for a record operating profit
The Samsung train just keeps rolling. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung has issued guidance for its upcoming third-quarter earnings report projecting that the …
Android is huge in China but it’s also out of Google’s control
There’s no question that Android is far and away the No. 1 mobile operating system in China but that might not be as good for …
Google acquires gesture recognition tech company Flutter
Google looks like it’s getting deeper into the world of Kinect-like gesture recognition technology. Gesture recognition software startup Flutter announced on Thursday that it has …
All good things must end: Instagram officially bringing ads to user feeds
Come on, Instagram users: You didn’t think your feed would stay blissfully ad-free forever, did you? Instagram announced on Wednesday that it will start delivering …
Nobody wins in a government shutdown… except Netflix
With around 800,000 federal employees on furlough due to the government shutdown, they’ll have a lot more time to catch up on missed episodes of …
LG ‘G Flex’ phone with curved display to debut in November
We reported yesterday on a possible flexible display smartphone called the ‘LG Z’ launching this month, but new information points to a November release date …
Apple working to restore filters to school-issued iPads after iOS 7 mishap
Multiple outlets reported on Thursday that the most recent iOS 7 update had effectively disabled the filters from iPads issued to students by their schools. …
Twitter makes IPO filing public, will look to raise $1 billion
In line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1 …
Apple acquires personal assistant software Cue, presumably to give Siri a brain boost
Apple is still investing to make sure its own voice-enabled personal assistant keeps up with the times. TechCrunch reports that Apple has spent at least …
As awful as the past year has been for Apple’s stock, it’s been through much worse
Fiscal 2013 was not a good year for Apple shareholders, but they have been through much worse. Apple’s fiscal year closed this past weekend and …
Samsung accused of illegally disclosing classified Apple-Nokia documents
As Samsung attempts to deal with the minor PR threat that came along with allegations of artificially boosting benchmark results on smartphones and tablets, new …
Amazon’s ‘Firetube’ set-top box reportedly set for holiday launch
Forget the battle for smartphone supremacy: The war for consumers’ living rooms is where the action is. 9to5Google notes that Amazon has filed a trademark application …
Google reportedly has a huge change planned for next year’s Nexus 7
Now that Google’s second-generation Nexus 7 tablet is here, pure Google fans’ attention has collectively turned to the Nexus 5 smartphone. We have seen the …
Early build of Android 4.4 KitKat shown in leaked pictures
We know that Google is planning to release a new version of its mobile operating system in the near future called Android 4.4 KitKat and …
