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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
