Gigabit Internet coming to Seattle for $80 per month
No Google Fiber? No problem. Residents in select neighborhoods in Seattle will have access to gigabit Internet speeds beginning in 2014. Gigabit Squared on Monday announced …
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Apple again seen losing steam, new products needed desperately
Apple managed to earn $9.5 billion in profit on $43.6 billion in sales last quarter without launching any exciting new devices, but the long wait for …
Intel’s cable-killing TV service takes a big step toward launching
Intel is hard at work on efforts that it hopes will shake up the pay-TV market and potentially kill cable as we know it today, …
Nokia EOS to launch next month as the Lumia 1020
A new leak suggests that Nokia’s upcoming 41-megapixel smartphone will launch as the Lumia 1020 sometime next month. The rumor comes to us from @evleaks, …
Leaked photo shows iPhone 5S display on the assembly line
An image of what is claimed to be the front panel and display assembly from Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5S has surfaced on Chinese micro-blogging service Sina Weibo. The …
Poll: Which Google Reader replacement did you choose?
As has been the case for more than one out of every three Google services that have ever existed, Google Reader will be shut down in …
Apple replacing new MacBook Air models with faulty Wi-Fi
Apple is reportedly replacing new MacBook Air models that are suffering from a Wi-Fi connectivity bug. Earlier reports suggested that new models equipped with Haswell …
Study: More than 90% of U.S. smartphone owners have no interest in Facebook Home
Facebook had the right idea with its Facebook Home strategy, but the devil is always in the details. The company’s mobile software is incredibly invasive …
BlackBerry continues to baffle Wall Street as estimates swing wildly
Wall Street’s views on BlackBerry 10 sales have been all over the map in recent months. As we approach the company’s earnings announcement for the May quarter …
Sprint shareholders approve SoftBank merger
Sprint shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of SoftBank’s merger bid, which amounts to $21.6 billion in cash and stock for an 80% stake in the …
CNN calls Samsung’s Galaxy S4 line ‘gadget spam’
Samsung’s smartphone strategy has always involved launching a wide range of handsets that span various sizes and price points. The company’s efforts are clearly working …
AT&T mobile boss says HTC First fire sale worked [updated]
AT&T’s mobile boss has reportedly confirmed that the carrier’s fire sale on the HTC First was a success, and that the phone is now sold …
Huawei CEO: Apple is ‘slipping,’ Galaxy S4 is a ‘so-so’ phone
Huawei’s chief executive Richard Yu apparently isn’t afraid to call out larger rivals as he dealt jabs to both Apple and Samsung in a recent …
Samsung denies plans to ditch PC business amid decline
When it comes to computing, Android smartphones and tablets are Samsung’s bread and butter. Samsung is the only company other than Apple that consistently earns a profit …
Barnes & Noble abandons Nook tablet hardware
Barnes & Noble on Tuesday morning reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street’s consensus. Revenue was down 7.4% to $1.3 billion while the company …
Samsung reportedly in talks to settle EU antitrust case over Apple suit
Samsung is reportedly in early talks with antitrust regulators in the European Union to settle a case that charges the company with attempting to bar …
Smartphone and tablet shipments to surpass 2 billion in 2013
Shipments of smartphones and tablets are continuing to grow at unprecedented rates. Research firm Gartner estimates that channel sales of smartphones and tablets will surpass …
Huawei brings the phablet craze to absurd new heights with 7-inch phone
In its latest attempt to blur the lines between smartphones and tablets, Huawei on Monday announced a new 7-inch Android device that can make phone calls. …
Apple’s hopes of barring knockoff Lightning cables purportedly dealt fatal blow
Apple’s quest to keep cheap knockoff Lightning cables off the market may have just been dealt a fatal blow. MacRumors reports that Chinese firm iPhone5Mod …
Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 3 models launch on July 7th in the U.S.
Because Samsung apparently hasn’t released enough new tablets lately, the company on Monday announced that would be launching three new tablet models in the United …
Google’s Waze deal comes under antitrust scrutiny
It hasn’t taken long for Google’s $1.1 billion acquisition of crowd-sourced mapping app Waze to come under scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission. The Wall Street …
Sony, Disney concoct blockbuster plan to fight movie piracy
With entertainment companies growing increasingly frustrated in their fight against online piracy, both Sony and Disney have started rolling out a radical new plan in …
HTC CEO looks to capture 15% of the smartphone market
Riding on the success of its latest flagship smartphone, HTC chief executive Peter Chou believes the company can increase its smartphone market share threefold in …
HTC One variant with Windows Phone 8 rumored to launch this fall
HTC’s flagship Android smartphone has been well received by critics and consumers. The HTC One has sold more than 5 million units and is estimated …
Samsung Galaxy Note III mass production may begin in August
As reports of slowing sales continue to raise questions surrounding Samsung’s Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone, a new claim suggests Samsung will soon begin mass-producing its …
Video: Steve Wozniak feels ‘a little guilty’ about enabling NSA spying
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently sat down with CNN’s Piers Morgan and spoke about a variety of topics, including the NSA spying controversy and whistleblower …
Microsoft reportedly bringing Xbox games to iOS and Android
Microsoft Office isn’t the only key asset that Microsoft plans to bring to iOS and Android users. Reuters cites a report from Japanese news service Nikkei claiming …
Users prefer Apple’s ‘hideously ugly’ new iOS 7 icons to old ones 2 to 1
Apple’s new iOS 7 software has been pretty polarizing so far. Specifically, the new design has been met with mixed reactions as users adjust to …
iOS 7 beta 2 iPad walkthrough [photo gallery]
Apple released iOS 7 beta 2 to carriers and developers on Monday just like we said they would, and the new build features a number of …
Samsung, Sony and others said to have no interest in Facebook Home
Facebook once dreamt of making its Home software for Android available on a wide variety of smartphones out of the box, but that dream is …
