Best Buy holiday sales slide despite online boost
Best Buy (BBY) on Friday reported sales results for the nine-week period ending on January 5th, 2013. The nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer said total …
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First BlackBerry 10 smartphone may launch on February 28th
Research in Motion (RIMM) is scheduled to formally unveil its BlackBerry 10 operating system on January 30th, however it is unclear when we will see the …
Rovio has more monthly active users than Twitter
Rovio announced today it hit 263 million monthly active users in December 2012. This happened precisely three years after the first Angry Birds game debuted …
A sense of dread shrouds Nintendo’s Wii U
The latest Wii U sales numbers are out from Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom — and unease is deepening. In Japan, Famitsu …
Video game retail sales continued to slide in December, down 22% from 2011
The PC industry isn’t the only one that had a rough time over the holiday quarter. Per VentureBeat, the latest data from the NPD Group …
Samsung cancels Windows RT plans in U.S.
In a major blow to Microsoft (MSFT), Samsung (005930) revealed that it has canceled plans to launch Windows RT devices in the United States. The …
Demand for cheaper iPhones may have hurt Apple’s holiday quarter
As rumors of a new lower-end iPhone that will debut later this year persist, a new report suggests stronger than expected demand for a cheaper …
Sprint confirms it will launch BlackBerry 10 later this year
Three of the four major nationwide wireless carriers in the U.S. confirmed earlier this week that they have plans to launch phones running Research In …
Next-generation iPad, iPad mini tablets reportedly due in March
Anyone holding off on buying an iPad mini because it doesn’t have a Retina display might not have to wait much longer. Topeka Capital analyst …
LG reportedly halts Nexus 4 production to make way for new Nexus device
It has been nearly impossible to purchase a Nexus 4 since it was released in late November. Google (GOOG) is subsidizing the phone on its …
BlackBerry Z10 shown off in leaked marketing materials
Hang in there, BlackBerry fans — you don’t have much longer to wait. Rapid Berry on Friday posted some marketing materials that RIM (RIMM) will send to …
Holiday PC sales declined in 2012 for first time in five years
The post-PC era is arriving faster than many of us had expected. New research from IDC shows that global PC sales in the fourth quarter of …
BlackBerry service outage hits Europe [updated]
BlackBerry subscribers using Vodafone in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit with a service outage on Friday morning that left many with no access …
Phil Schiller interview casting doubt on possible low-end iPhone updated, prompting Reuters withdrawal
An interview with Apple’s (AAPL) senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller conducted by Chinese-language Shanghai Evening News made waves on Thursday when it seemed …
How computer scientists are trying to stop smartphones and tablets from breaking the Internet
There’s just one problem with the post-PC mobile revolution: The Internet may not be designed to properly handle it. To understand why this is, recall …
Beats Audio announces new music streaming service to launch in late 2013
Following Beats Audio’s acquisition of subscription music service MOG, BGR exclusively reported details about the company’s plans to launch an iTunes-like music service, codenamed project …
FCC plans to free up large block of prime spectrum for Wi-Fi
Good news for everyone who’s tired of shoddy Wi-Fi connectivity in crowded cafes: the Federal Communications Commission is here to help. As CNET reports, FCC chairman …
Google now letting Android developers answer their critics in Google Play reviews
In the past year Google (GOOG) has taken steps to eliminate excessive trolling in its Play Store. The company recently integrated Google+ profile names and …
Whitman says it will take five years to turn HP around
To understand what an unholy mess HP (HPQ) is in right now, consider that CEO Meg Whitman says she needs more time to fix the …
LTE accounts for almost 50% of Verizon’s data traffic
Verizon Wireless (VZ) subscribers are taking full advantage of the carrier’s ultra-fast and widely available 4G LTE network. The company revealed in an interview with …
27-inch iMac supply could be light through end of February
Apple’s (AAPL) new iMac computers are an engineering feat, but the All-in-One’s striking design apparently has some downsides. Numerous reports have suggested Apple’s manufacturing partner …
Expect more suffering for Microsoft and Intel in 2013
The PC industry is in shambles and no one is going to be hit harder than Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC), according to the latest …
Amazon and Samsung are running away with the Android tablet market
Following the successful launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, Android vendors saw a beacon of hope in a market that had been dominated by Apple’s …
Apple could spend much of 2013 patching its big Achilles’ heel: Web services
Let’s face it: Apple’s (AAPL) Maps fiasco wouldn’t have been such a big deal if it were just a one-time mistake. But as AllThingsD’s John Paczkowski …
Apple’s Schiller says cheap smartphones will ‘never be the future of Apple products’
Apple (AAPL) may sell a cheaper iPhone, but don’t expect it to sell for the bargin bin prices that we’ve heard about through rumors so …
T-Mobile’s CEO trashes AT&T’s ‘crap’ service, analyzes mobile porn consumption
When you’re CEO of America’s No.4 wireless carrier, you can afford to be a little colorful. Per PCMag, T-Mobile CEO John Legere decided to bring some …
New cheaper iPhone called ‘absolutely awful news’ for Apple
At least five independent reports over the past week have claimed that Apple (AAPL) has a new less expensive iPhone model in the works. By …
Apple CEO meets with China Mobile, iPhone likely topic of discussion
China Mobile (CHL) is the world’s largest wireless carrier with more than 700 million subscribers. The company is also the only major carrier in China …
Is BlackBerry back? Strong early BlackBerry 10 demand could signal RIM comeback
After hitting a rough patch that seemed to last for most of 2012, Research In Motion (RIMM) may finally see the light at the end …
Tired of seeing Android sued by everyone, Google cranks up its patent output
Google (GOOG) may hate the patent suit players, but it sure doesn’t hate the patent suit game. As Network World reports, Google ramped up its patent …
