Qualcomm reports record Q1, beats estimates with $4.68B in revenue and raises outlook
Qualcomm on Wednesday reported record earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2012. The company took in $4.68 billion in revenue, up 40% year-over-year and …
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ITC reportedly rejects Barnes & Noble’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are currently tied up in two separate legal battles, one being heard by the Department of Justice and the other …
Android and iOS regain market share in January as BlackBerry slides
Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iOS regained mobile operating system market share last month after both mobile platforms curiously showed declines in December. Analytics firm …
Android users are more likely to have sex on the first date, study finds
Users of Android phones are more likely to have sex on a first date and have one-night stands, according to survey results revealed by Match.com. The survey …
German court denies Apple’s request to ban Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1N
The Munich Regional Court in Germany on Wednesday rejected Apple’s request to ban Samsung’s local subsidiaries from selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Galaxy …
Seagate says hard drive shortage will continue through this year
Seagate said in its recent fiscal second-quarter earnings report that it expects the flooding in Thailand to result in a continued hard drive shortage throughout …
Microsoft is running anti-Google newspaper ads focused on privacy
Microsoft has started to run anti-Google newspaper ads in a clear effort to sway people from using Google’s services. On Monday, Google announced that it …
Workers should not have to die so Apple can build the iPhone 5, petition says
A new web-based petition singles out Apple and calls for the company to force its suppliers to reform the working conditions at their factories. Original …
Samsung Galaxy S II Plus benchmarks surface, may tide users over until Galaxy S III launch
While Samsung won’t be unveiling its highly anticipated Galaxy S III at the Mobile World Congress trade show next month in Barcelona, Spain, it should …
Photos show quad-core iPad 3 processor, Wi-Fi and global LTE options
A source claiming to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype provided BGR with images containing details about Apple’s highly anticipated third-generation tablet. From the …
Sony appoints Kazuo Hirai CEO, Stringer takes chairman role
Sony Corporation on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of executive deputy president Kazuo Hirai as CEO and company president, replacing Howard Stringer, who is currently President …
Commenting on BGR
With the relaunch of BGR over a year ago, I decided to switch comments to a more robust platform that I thought would give us …
Samsung Galaxy S III announcement to come later than expected
Samsung reportedly confirmed on Wednesday that it will not be unveiling the Galaxy S III during the Mobile World Congress trade show next month. The …
Most mobile daily deal users are from high-income households, study finds
If you’re signed up for a daily deal service on your phone, odds are you’re from a high-income household. According to new data from comScore, …
T-Mobile now selling Square credit card payment systems in retail stores
T-Mobile USA announced on Tuesday that it is now selling Square credit card systems in its retail stores. Square allows people to take payments by …
Nokia Siemens Networks to lay off more than 4,000 workers in Europe
Nokia Siemens Networks recently announced that it will cut as many as 1,200 jobs in Finland and lay off another 2,900 workers in Germany as …
Apple issues major Final Cut Pro X update with multicam editing and more
Apple on Tuesday announced a major update to its Final Cut Pro X video editing software. The company added “multicam editing that automatically syncs up …
Foxconn to build five new Brazilian factories for future Apple products
Foxconn plans to build five additional factories in Brazil to produce liquid crystal displays for future Apple products. The plan was announced by the Secretary …
BlackBerry London shows up again with fresher design
We first saw the BlackBerry London make it way onto the internet a few months back, though I reported that the version that would come …
Mozilla’s Firefox 10 now available for download
Mozilla on Tuesday released the latest version of its Firefox browser. In addition to allowing users to run full-screen apps, Firefox 10 offers the following …
Nikesh Arora rumored to become Motorola CEO after acquisition
Nikesh Arora, Google’s SVP and Chief Business Officer, will run Motorola once the Google acquisition closes later this year, according to rumor published by Business Insider. …
Regional carriers ask FCC to impose a ‘shot clock’ for roaming agreements
MetroPCS, U.S. Cellular and several other regional carriers have requested that the Federal Communications Commission initiate a “shot clock” for roaming agreements with larger wireless …
Amazon reports $17.4B in revenue, sales up 35% but misses Street estimates
Amazon on Tuesday reported its earnings for the fourth quarter, during which it took in $17.4 billion in revenue. While its net sales were up …
Galaxy Note to star in Samsung’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial
Samsung announced on Monday that the company will be launching the Galaxy Note smartphone with a 90-second Super Bowl commercial, which will be the first-ever …
A visualization of Apple’s market cap and cash [infographic]
Apple reported a monster first quarter last Tuesday that sent the company’s stock skyrocketing over the past week. Apple’s holiday quarter was the most profitable …
Google responds to Congress’s concern over new privacy policy
Google on Monday announced that the company would combine individual privacy policies from a variety of its products into one main policy. Critics of the change …
Wikileaks looks to move servers offshore to avoid prosecution
In an attempt to evade U.S. prosecution, Julian Assange’s investors are said to be in the process of moving Wikileaks’s servers offshore, according to Fox …
Apple taking NFC payments mainstream with iPhone 5
Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s head of emerging payments, sat down with Austin Carr of Fast Company to discuss the future of credit cards. “We’re rapidly moving …
Samsung faces antitrust investigation in Europe over use of mobile patents
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has opened a formal investigation into Samsung’s competitive practices. The Commission will assess whether the Korean manufacturer …
Can these four superheroes rescue RIM?
Research In Motion’s newly appointed CEO Thorsten Heins said during his first day on the job that hiring a new marketing boss and revamping the …
