Twisted light: New tech can transmit 70 DVDs worth of data per second
A team of researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a data transmission technology capable of moving the equivalent of 70 DVDs in one …
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WSJ: ‘iPad mini’ launch coming soon
Following a pair of reports on Tuesday suggesting Apple is prepping a smaller, cheaper iPad tablet that will launch this fall, The Wall Street Journal’s …
U.K. Judge clears HTC phones of infringing on Apple patents
U.K. Judge Christopher Floyd ruled on Wednesday that HTC’s phones do not infringe on Apple’s patents, Bloomberg reports. The patents, which include Apple’s well known …
Samsung Galaxy Nexus pulled from Google store following ban; software patch coming
Samsung is celebrating Independence Day this year by working vigorously with Google to issue a software patch that will allow sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone to …
ACTA anti-piracy treaty dead following defeat in European Parliament
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been defeated one last time following a European Parliament vote on Wednesday. The proposed legislation was often likened …
Toshiba hit with $87 million fine over LCD price fixing scandal
A Northern California jury on Tuesday found Toshiba guilty of conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal displays. Customers brought a civil lawsuit against the …
Tablet shipments to overtake notebooks in 2016, NPD says
Tablets may indeed herald the coming of a “post-PC world,” but that world won’t arrive for another few years, NPD said on Tuesday. According to …
Netflix subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video in June
Netflix on Tuesday revealed that its subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video for the first time ever in June. The company’s CEO Reed …
Nexus 7 crushes Kindle Fire’s battery performance, says iFixit
The repair wizards at iFixit have gotten hold of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet and have found that it absolutely bludgeons Amazon’s rival Kindle Fire tablet …
Apple loses bid to ban HTC phones
Although Apple scored a big victory in its efforts to muck up Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales last week, it will have no such satisfaction …
Virgin Mobile launches contract-free HTC One V for just $199
The chin is in at Virgin Mobile — the Sprint-owned prepaid wireless carrier has quietly launched one of HTC’s latest and greatest smartphones, the entry-level-but-quite-capable …
HBO Go app updated to support Ice Cream Sandwich tablets
HBO on Monday updated its popular content streaming app to support tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. HBO GO allows HBO subscribers with select …
Google+ is an uninviting digital man cave, say female technologists
Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that’s the impression that five female technologists gave during …
Verizon laying off 950 workers at Houston call center
Verizon Wireless notified one of its call centers in Houston, Texas about plans to close the facility. The center houses 943 employees, all of whom …
Samsung loses appeal to lift Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban
A judge with the United States District Court for Northern California has rejected Samsung’s appeal to a lift a sales ban of its Galaxy Tab …
Nokia could be a litigation nightmare for Google’s Asian Android partners
Nokia’s ace in the patent wars is the breadth of its portfolio. Nokia was central in developing GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE and Wi-Fi …
Verizon Galaxy S III to launch July 10th for $199.99
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that the highly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone will finally launch on July 10th. Following a number of delays across …
Bill Gates to PC makers: Don’t be mad about Surface
Microsoft may be going it alone in making its first tablet but company chairman and founder Bill Gates says that Windows PC original equipment manufacturers …
Amazon eyes Apple’s new maps, acquires 3D mapping startup UpNext
Amazon on Monday reportedly closed a deal to acquire 3D mapping startup UpNext, according to GigaOM. The acquisition will thrust the retail giant into new …
iMac with Retina display could launch in October
Everyone knows Apple plans on releasing its next-generation iPhone this fall, but its flagship smartphone could also share the stage with a next-generation iMac that …
Apple stock hits $600 for first time since April
Shares of Apple’s stock hit the $600-mark on Tuesday for the first time since April 27th. The company’s stock price sky-rocketed earlier this year after Apple …
How a century of telephone expertise doomed Ericsson
The mobile phone industry is used to vendors flaming out, sometimes just a couple of years after companies peak. Yet few handset companies have self-destructed …
RIM CEO: There’s nothing wrong with our company
5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? “‘Tis but a scratch,” says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.com reports that …
Apple’s ‘iPad mini’ to launch soon for $249-$299, report claims
Apple’s “iPad mini,” a smaller version of the company’s popular iPad tablet, will soon launch at a price point that may send shockwaves through the …
The year of Gingerbread continues: ICS penetration crosses 10%
Google debuted its brand new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system last week during the annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The latest …
BlackBerry 10 roadmap emerges; London, Nevada, Blackforest and more planned for 2013
A purported roadmap outlining Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 launch plans has emerged, seemingly outlining the current state of RIM’s ever-changing launch schedule for the …
And the world’s most popular browser is… who knows?
Computer World's Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in …
Facebook will ‘look into’ its own sneaky email switching
Facebook royally ticked off many of its users last week when it made their @facebook.com email addresses the primary ones displayed on profile pages without …
Beats Electronics officially acquires MOG music service
Beats Electronics has finally acquired subscription music service MOG. “Beats was created as a response to the complete erosion of the music experience,” Beats' president …
Sony acquires cloud gaming service Gaikai for $380 million
Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony's gaming arm, announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire California-based cloud gaming firm Gaikai Inc. for $380 million. Sony …
