Verizon wants to buy Alltel, create incestuous major carrier
What would you do with $27 billion? If your name is Verizon Wireless, it seems the answer is acquire rival Alltel. According to CNBC Verizon …
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Rogers launches BlackBerry Pearl 8120 with UMA
Rogers and RIM have just announced the launch of the BlackBerry 8120 on the Canadian carrier’s network. The phone, which has been available worldwide for …
iTunes movie store comes to Britain and Canada
In a move that should delight and amaze the Apple faithful in the United Kingdom and Canada, the company has announced that the iTunes Movie …
T-Mobile intros unlimited family plan
Remember when unlimited calling plans were a sweet figment of our imagination? Times have changed for the better. Following the relatively recent introduction of its …
Time Warner Cable Piloting Disgustingly Low Bandwidth Caps
As we delve further into an age where more and more content is obtained and consumed digitally, Time Warner Cable seems to be doing everything …
Is OS X 10.6 coming next week?
We admit, this seems a bit unlikely, but TUAW is reporting that the next iteration of Apple’s OS X operating system could debut as early …
HTC announces HTC Touch Pro
You might know it as the HTC Raphael, but from now on, it’s official, and officially the Touch Pro. More or a less a slide-out …
Our Motorola A1800 gets a billion friends in China
Wait, what? Motorola actually shipped a new product? Well, it seems so, because they just released the Motorola A1800 MING to the Chinese market. The …
SquirrelFish is To WebKit as Steroids are to Baseball
Ok, maybe that’s not the best analogy since SquirrelFish isn’t illegal. With performance figures like this however, competing mobile browsers may wish it was. WebKit, …
Go to College, Buy a Mac, Get a Free iPod
Not quite the formative years, but what better time to get people hooked on Apple products than while they’re in college? Besides, you need something …
AT&T and Starbucks Finally Launch Free WiFi; Not Really Free
It’s here, it’s gone, it’s here, it’s gone, it’s here. It took a fair number of misfires and tweaks but AT&T and Starbucks have finally …
T-Mobile adds 7PM nights, free mobile to mobile to pre-paid plans
You know the drill by now: a major carrier such as AT&T introduces a new feature, years later T-Mobile makes a feeble attempt at copying …
Another day, another iPhone rumor
By now you’ve obviously seen all the rumors about Apple’s 3G iPhone. If you’re hip on your news, you’ll have noticed that everyone is reporting …
Best Buy Piloting Free Electronics Recycling Program
Kudos, Best Buy. The national electronics retail giant announced a new recycling initiative launched yesterday that is being piloted in 117 stores across Baltimore, San …
Verizon to Issue Samsung i770 and Palm 800w in Q3; More
Any Verizon customers out there getting close to an upgrade and curious as to what smartphones might be coming to the carrier this Summer? Look …
HTC Touch Diamond giveaway!
Josh is working on the full review for the Touch Diamond, but in the meantime, we’re givin’ one of these bad boys away! That’s right …
Adobe Online Office Suite; Sweet!
Yes that title was fantastically lame, get over it. Here at BGR, we fully embrace anything and everything that takes us one step closer to …
Rose Dishes iPhone Rumors and Financial Advice
Cewebrity Digg boy Kevin Rose has built an empire from the ground up, no question. Legions of fans get as excited for Diggnation as your …
Chicks Dig Nokia; Two Upcoming Handsets Aimed at Females
Details are a tad shaky right now as the original leak source for these two upcoming handsets has removed all info from the site, but …
HTC’s Touch Diamond and Raphael don’t like the U.S.
This is a semi-rant, but can someone tell me why of all manufacturers, HTC has started to make devices that are no longer quad-band, and …
Google Earth on your iPhone
This one isn’t quite ready for mainstream consumption yet, but it looks pretty promising. If you’ve ever fantasized about running a version of Google Earth …
BlackBerry Thunder 9500 live shot?
We’re so confused…Engadget picked up this photo from HorizonWireless and they claim it to be a picture of the BlackBerry Thunder. Ah, come on, guys, …
LG VX8610 release info
If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the next generation LG Chocolate handset, we’ve got some good news for you. The official release …
Dell Latitude 2008-2009 roadmap
We just got a hold of Dell’s 2008-2009 Latitude notebook roadmap, and there’s some pretty interesting stuff in here! Some of the laptops contained in …
Mini Notebook market set to get blown wide open
According to a report recently published by AU Optronics, the mini-notebook market is about to hit the fan. Sales of the tiny computers numbered in …
AT&T Rolling out 3G Upgrades, iPhone 2 Soon
Remember last year just before the initial iPhone launch? EDGE dropped off for a while and then came back with a vengeance. Prior to the …
SpinVox: Building a Voice-driven Empire one Mobile User at a Time
Maybe it’s the cool-factor, maybe it’s the novelty, maybe it’s the crazy little “SpinVox Mobsters” pictured above or maybe it’s the sheer convenience; whatever the …
Dumb iPhone rumor…
Ok, so we got an email late last night that said, “The apple 5th avenue store is closing tommorow from 1pm-9am which is the longest …
Promo shots of the Samsung T229 for T-Mobile
What’s a Thursday without some exclusive shots of the Samsung T229? Nothing. That’s what. Sure, the SGH-T229 is nothing to get too excited about, with …
Dell Mini Inspiron is… Mini
Dell’s upcoming Mini Inspiron is a nod to the relevance of the Eee space as Dell has apparently realized that they need be playing in …
