Is Spotify helping kill off music piracy?
Artists may like griping about subscription-based music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, but they appear to be doing a lot to kill off music …
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Leaked image, specs may reveal HP’s first Android smartphone, which looks just like an iPhone [updated]
Hewlett-Packard executive Su-yin Yam recently insisted HP is working on a new smartphone that will offer truly compelling differentiation compared to the current crop of devices …
BlackBerry reportedly slashes Z10, Q10 production in half as sales slow
BlackBerry posted fiscal first quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates by a wide margin. The company’s surprise loss was obviously troubling, but even more so …
Do the new Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T plans signal a big smartphone downturn?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile is about to announce the first quarter of contract subscriber growth since 2010. The timing of the Bloomberg bombshell was …
BlackBerry may now be stuck in a no-win situation
With BlackBerry’s comeback momentum seemingly stalled, many analysts have started coming up with ideas for how the company can survive if its current plan to …
How do wireless carriers plan to milk subscribers as growth slows? New fees, new tricks
How do you put your company in the best possible position to grow when you’ve seemingly squeezed customers as much as they can possibly be …
Apple’s new iPhone 5S might be hard to find when it launches this fall
In what’s becoming a regular occurrence, an upcoming Apple product is reportedly facing manufacturing setbacks. Digitimes reports that “poor yields of fingerprint-recognition chips and LCD …
Apple reportedly in talks to acquire Kinect inventor PrimeSense [updated]
A new report suggests that Apple is interested in acquiring the company whose technology powers Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor. According to Calcalist, Apple is in talks …
T-Mobile rivals feel the heat: AT&T unveils its own UNcarrier-like plans
While it’s not shocking that T-Mobile has started pressuring rival wireless carriers to offer a wider variety of options for upgrading devices, it is surprising …
Cable companies mull ditching sports stations to cut customers’ bills
Believe it or not, cable companies are actually trying to think of ways to lower their customers’ bills. The Wall Street Journal reports that cable …
PC market’s Q2 decline might be even worse than we thought
Industry watchers collectively cringed last week when market research firms Gartner and IDC each published second-quarter shipment estimates that showed a huge decline of about …
Instagram CEO thinks Instagram could actually outgrow Facebook
Instagram’s ambitious chief executive has big plans for the photo-sharing app. CEO Kevin Systrom has helped Instagram grow from a small startup to one of …
Video: Angry Birds Star Wars 2 launches on September 19th
Rovio on Monday announced yet another sequel to its immensely popular Angry Birds franchise. Angry Birds Star Wars 2 will continue the story of last …
In odd twist, Chinese PC vendor Lenovo shifts manufacturing to U.S.
We hear a lot about American companies offshoring their manufacturing operations to China, but now we have a true man-bites-dog story of a Chinese company …
Kinect costs almost as much as the Xbox One to build
An anonymous Microsoft employee claims that manufacturing the Kinect sensor costs “almost as much” as manufacturing the Xbox One. The information was revealed in an …
Apple’s iPhone sales growth expected to stagnate
The iPhone has long been Apple’s profit monster but what happens when that monster stops growing? Fortune takes a look at consensus projections for how …
Verizon reportedly jumps at chance to copy T-Mobile’s UNcarrier policies
T-Mobile last week announced a new program that allows customers to upgrade their smartphones more often. The JUMP initiative, which stands for Just Upgrade My …
HTC One mini pictured again, said to include dual-core CPU, 4.3-inch display
A new report may reveal the specs for the rumored HTC One mini smartphone. According to AndroidNext, the handset will be equipped with a 4.3-inch …
How to escape Google’s clutches while surfing the web
Google has built a very powerful empire of key web services that it very conveniently lets you use while signed into one account, including Gmail, …
Messaging apps escalate their global war
The triumph LINE has had with translating expensive TV campaigns into breakthrough success in three key markets — Japan, Spain and now India — has …
LG’s G2 to finally compete with Apple and Samsung
LG thinks it has a winner on its hands with the upcoming G2 smartphone. The handset is shaping up to be one of the most …
Video: Sense and stock Android will soon be able to run on the same HTC One
HTC’s Sense user interface offers more functionality and features than stock Android, but some people love the simplicity and customization options that define Google’s stock …
HTC One Max said to feature massive 6-inch 1080p display
It looks like Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note III could have more competition than we thought this fall. HTC is reportedly getting ready to launch a …
Microsoft’s big Windows 8 problem: Touch not seen as important for PCs
In developing Windows 8, Microsoft made a big bet that adding touch capabilities to personal computers would help revive an industry that was getting eaten …
Video: Google Glass takes home automation to the next level
Google’s strategy with Google Glass is as brilliant as it is unconventional. While Glass isn’t shaping up to be the next iPad, Google knows that …
Apple-Samsung mobile industry stranglehold not seen ending anytime soon
Tired of seeing Apple and Samsung dominate the mobile market place? Well too bad — it looks like they’re going to keep crushing the competition through …
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BGR grew at an incredible pace in 2012 and things haven’t slowed at all in the first half of 2013 — our content now reaches …
Hulu’s dithering is rocket fuel for Netflix
Netflix’s share price almost hit a giddy $26o on Friday as it became clear that Hulu was not going to be acquired by DirectTV or Time …
Microsoft reportedly testing ‘translucent aluminum’ Surface Watch
The smartwatch race is on. The Verge reports that Microsoft has moved production of its own smartwatch from its Xbox division to its Surface division and …
BlackBerry A10 shown on video for first time ever
BGR gave the world an exclusive first look at BlackBerry’s upcoming flagship BlackBerry A10 smartphone last week, and the device has now been shown on …
