App-crashing bug is fixed, Apple says
Apple’s long one-day App Store nightmare is apparently over. Speaking to All Things D late Thursday, Apple said that it has fixed bugs within a DRM …
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Samsung estimates record $5.9 billion profit for Q2 2012
Good news: there’s actually a company besides Apple making money selling smartphones! While manufacturers HTC, RIM and Nokia have all gone through widely publicized struggles …
HTC profit plummets 58% in Q2
HTC on Friday reported disappointing unaudited second-quarter earnings that showed a huge drop in profit as the struggling smartphone maker’s woes continue. The Taiwan-based vendor …
New slimmer PlayStation 3 in the works, FCC docs suggest
EuroGamer on Thursday pointed out some documents from the Federal Communications Commission’s website showing diagrams of what may be the long-rumored “super-slim” rendition of the PlayStation …
Mobile ad spending may triple to $7.1 billion by 2015, study projects
Get ready for even more annoying advertisements to pop up during Angry Birds. Per Mobile Business Briefing, a new study from Juniper Research projects that …
Motorola Atrix HD unveiled: 4.5-inch display, Ice Cream Sandwich and more
Motorola has published a landing page for the newest addition to its Atrix smartphone series, the Motorola Atrix HD. The device stacks up well in …
International spam botnet found to be infecting Android devices
A Microsoft engineer on Tuesday identified a new international spam botnet that can access Yahoo! Mail accounts on Android devices. Terry Zink noted on a …
Judge in Apple patent case says patent system is a mess
Judge Richard Posner, last seen dismissing an Apple-Motorola patent dispute with prejudice, has added some more thoughts to the current state of the patent system …
Developer hacks Raspberry Pi to play Super Nintendo games
A small, ugly computer playing old, primitive video games normally wouldn’t be news. But most small, ugly computers aren’t nearly as cool as the Raspberry …
Verizon customers report getting Galaxy S III early
Some Verizon Wireless customers who preordered the Samsung Galaxy S III are getting a pleasant surprise this week as their new smartphones are arriving earlier …
Next-generation iPhone to feature quad-core processor, report claims
Apple’s next-generation iPhone handset will be powered by a brand new quad-core processor, a new report claims. Citing anonymous industry sources, Digitimes on Thursday reported …
Google: Galaxy Nexus sales will resume next week
Google’s software engineers are working overtime to thwart Apple’s always-busy legal team. Google told ABC News on Thursday that it will have a patch for its Galaxy …
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 launch plan: Work Ottawa employees into the ground
In what is sure to be a morale booster, RIM has decided to limit some of its Ottawa-based employees’ vacations and force them to work …
Former Microsoft exec: Microsoft has ‘become the thing they despised’
Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades. In recent years, however, …
Apple’s spotless record tarnished by App Store’s first malicious spam app [updated]
Apple’s spotless record of keeping the App Store clear of malicious spam apps has been tarnished. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an app called “Find …
A Chinese company you’ve never heard of says it invented Siri first
There’s been a lot of angst recently over America’s trade deficit with China, but it seems the United States has finally found something that it …
Apple may be working on Project Glass-like wearable displays
Google unveiled the first iteration of its “Project Glass” connected eyewear this past April, and reports emerged soon after suggesting Google’s rivals were already working …
The BGR Show: Episode 5 – 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 with Magic Sky
Technology in cars doesn’t change as frequently as it does in some other industries, but lately there has been a huge emphasis on what connected …
DNSChanger malware set to kick 277,000 computers off the web Monday
Anyone who hasn’t scanned their computer for malware some time during the past year should seriously do so before this coming Monday. That’s because the …
Retooled third-generation iPad may launch ahead of the holidays
Following a report from late last month claiming Apple is working on a revision of its latest iPad tablet, a new report suggests that a revised …
Corrupt apps sweep Apple’s App Store [updated]
A laundry list of iOS and Mac apps updated over the past day are crashing on launch due to an issue with Apple’s App Store …
Tablets are (slowly) taking over for paper books and magazines, Gartner finds
Paper-based books aren’t in any danger of becoming vinyl record-style novelties anytime soon, but Gartner says that they’re increasingly being read less frequently in favor …
A cotton T-shirt may one day charge your cell phone
Two engineers at the University of South Carolina conducted research that showed a modified store-bought T-shirt can act like a supercapacitor and store an electrical …
Motorola Photon Q LTE seemingly headed to Sprint
Engadget has found what appears to be a diagram of the Motorola Photon Q LTE listed as approved on the Federal Communications Commission’s website. As Engadget notes, …
Amazon’s next-generation Kindle Fire to launch in August, says China Times
Amazon isn’t taking Google’s Nexus 7 challenge lying down. Per UnwiredView, the China Times is reporting that Amazon has ordered 2 million new Kindle Fire units …
Meet the new spray-on battery that comes in a can
Scientific American reports that a team of scientists from Rice University in Houston and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have been working on a …
‘Xbox 8’ tipped as name of next-gen Microsoft gaming console
Microsoft’s next-generation gaming console may be called “Xbox 8,” or perhaps Xbox Infinity, according to a recent report. The software giant recently secured a slew of …
RIM under pressure to slash carrier fees, which now account for one-third of revenue
When it rains, it pours. And in RIM’s case, it turns into a Noah-style biblical flood. Bloomberg News, via The Financial Post, reports that the troubled …
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden is in bed with the MPAA
The strange and amusing saga of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom took another interesting twist on Tuesday when Dotcom told TorrentFreak that none other than Vice President …
Huawei Ascend P1 review
Huawei isn’t a well known brand when it comes to the U.S. smartphone market. The Chinese manufacturer is looking to change that, however, and plans …
