Nokia shuts down two China-based offices as troubles persist
Being a struggling company means layoffs and office closures, and Nokia is sadly no exception. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia is shutting down two of …
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Amazing Alex, the App Store’s No.1 paid app, will hit more platforms soon
Windows and Mac users worried about not being able to play Rovio’s new hit iOS and Android game Amazing Alex can rest easy: Rovio has not …
Hot start for Nexus 7: Major chains report quick sellouts
Reuters reports that some major retail chains have been running out of Google Nexus 7 tablets on the device’s first day of availability. According to Reuters, …
Apple is going after retailers for selling banned Samsung products
The patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has turned in the iPhone-maker’s favor over the past couple of weeks. After the Cupertino-based company successfully halted …
HTC has a superphone with a 1080p display in the works
In late April, BGR exclusively reported details regarding Verizon’s summer and fall smartphone roadmap. Along with confirming the carrier’s intention to offer Samsung’s Galaxy S …
The wait is finally over: Nexus 7 preorders start shipping today
There has been some confusion from those who have placed Google Nexus 7 preorders regarding when they can expect their tablets to arrive in the mail …
Mac growth topped Windows for 25th consecutive quarter in Q2
Shipments of Apple computers appear to have outgrown Windows PC shipments for the 25th consecutive quarter in Q2 2012, reports Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt. Following the release of …
Man attempts to live open source life for a year, including DIY condoms [video]
A 28-year-old New Zealand-born filmmaker from Berlin is attempting to drastically change his lifestyle. Sam Muirhead plans to abandon all copyrighted products for one year …
Apple caves following flood of complaints, returns to EPEAT ratings
Apple recently found itself fielding criticism for its decision to remove a number of its products from the EPEAT environmental rating system. The Cupertino-based company on …
What is RIM worth?
Research In Motion was coy at first regarding the exploration a possible sale, but chief executive Thorsten Henis openly admitted that the company will explore …
Apple still can’t build Retina MacBook Pros fast enough
After launching alongside a wave of positive reviews last month, Apple’s Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro has been in high demand. After its announcement on June …
Samsung’s new North American sales strategy: Rip off Apple Stores [video]
Other designs are possible. Whether or not Samsung builds devices that are “copies” of Apple’s iPhone and iPad models is open to debate, but there’s …
Microsoft Office 2013 set to debut July 16th
Since Microsoft seems intent on revamping most of its major products this year, it shouldn’t be surprising that the company will soon take the wraps …
iPhone hacker shows the world how to steal in-app purchases [updated]
In Russia, iPhone hacks you! Via 9to5Mac, it seems that a crafty Ruskie hacker who calls himself “ZonD80” has concocted a method that lets even …
More bad news: Developers are giving up on BlackBerry, too [updated]
Research In Motion has shown us some pretty awesome things so far with BlackBerry 10. Areas of the mobile OS look fresh and exciting, and …
New iPad mini details: Nexus 7’s worst nightmare is as thin as an iPod touch
Newly leaked schematics and case renderings reveal a variety of purported details about Apple’s widely rumored “iPad mini” tablet, a device that is likely to …
NFC mobile payment growth could be stunted by security flaws
Developers who work on mobile payment platforms should start hitting the panic button: Esteemed hacker Charlie Miller is about to mess them up. Dark Reading reports …
Never-seen-before HTC tablet leaked in benchmarks
An earlier report suggested that HTC was looking to re-enter the tablet market after a slew of unsuccessful devices. According to benchmarks discovered by a …
Amazon is reportedly making a phone and it just poached another Windows Phone executive
The likelihood that Amazon will launch a smartphone — or a “phablet,” as the case may be — at some point in the next six …
Toshiba and LG settle LCD price-fixing scandal for half a billion dollars
Toshiba, LG and AU Optronics have agreed to pay a combined sum of $571 million to settle a lawsuit over a liquid crystal display price-fixing …
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is a smash; Q3 sales expected to hit 15 million
Analysts at JPMorgan estimate that Samsung will sell as many as 15 million Galaxy S III smartphones in the third quarter this year, according to …
Google shows developers how to make Chrome act like the default browser in iOS
Google has received positive feedback regarding its mobile Chrome web browser. After arriving on the iPhone and iPad late last month, the browser quickly became …
Lucky Android fans could get their Nexus 7 tablets as soon as July 13th
Android fans who preordered Google’s flagship Nexus 7 tablet through the Google Play store could get a nice big treat in the mail as soon …
HTC’s quad-core follow up to the flagship One X surfaces on test site
An unknown HTC smartphone has appeared on the GLBenchmark website. The device contains the model number PM63100 and the codename “Evitare UL,” which clearly relates …
Apple could crush quarterly iPad sales record with projected 20 million in Q2
Newsflash: The Apple iPad is still really, really popular. And according to Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf, it’s now even more popular than it’s ever …
Samsung’s supersized Galaxy Note II will reportedly be shown off on August 30th
A new report out of DDaily suggests that Samsung will hold an Unpacked event at the IFA trade show in Berlin in late August to …
Nielsen: BlackBerry nearly a non-factor in Q2, Android and iOS take top spots
New numbers from Nielsen illustrate what has long been obvious to anyone who pays attention to technology: old feature phones will soon be a thing …
Amazing Alex first impressions: It’s clever but it needs some bad guys
When the history of gaming is written, Rovio’s Angry Birds will to be touchscreen device games what Super Mario Bros. was to 8-bit consoles — …
Time Warner Cable offers cash to spies as Google preps cable-killing fiber optic network
In a move that Richard Nixon and Vladimir Putin would surely approve of, Time Warner Cable is now offering cash rewards for Kansas City citizen …
Actually, smartphone growth has been just what was projected in 2006
We all know that consumer electronics industry projections are useless in the three-year time frame, and grotesquely wrong beyond the five-year horizon. Or are they? …
