Microsoft's 'Locationgate' Ends With Mango
Microsoft has updated its Windows Phone platform to address what is now presumed to have been a bug that caused phones to gather location data…
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Foxconn's $12 Billion Brazil iPad Plant 'In Doubt'
Foxconn's plans to build a $12 billion factory in Brazil dedicated to producing iPads is "in doubt," government officials in Brazil told Reuters. Reportedly, negotiations…
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Samsung Unveils Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 Exynos Processor
Samsung announced is Exynos 4212 processor on Thursday, a new dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip. Samsung said the 4212 offers a 25% increase in processing power,…
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RIM Calls PlayBook Discontinuation 'Pure Fiction'
Research In Motion on Thursday responded to a market rumor suggesting that production of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet had been stopped, and it was considering…
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RIM Reportedly Bails On PlayBook, Considers Exiting Tablet Market [Updated]
Research In Motion has reportedly stopped production of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and is considering exiting the space altogether. Collins Stewart analyst John Vinh made the…
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IDC: Amazon Kindle Fire May 'Radically Redraw The Media Tablet Market'
When Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet begins shipping to end users on November 15th, it will have the potential to "radically redraw the media tablet market"…
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DOJ Wants More Info On Google's Planned Motorola Mobility Purchase
The United States Justice Department has issued a request for more information from Google and Motorola Mobility concerning the search giant's planned $12.5 billion acquisition…
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iPhone 5 '4G' Support (21Mbps HSPA+) Reportedly Confirmed By China Unicom
The iPhone 5 will support 21Mbps HSPA+ data networks, China Unicom vice president Huan Wenliang said during the Macworld Asia 2011 conference. T-Mobile and AT&T…
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Steve Jobs Tried To End Apple's Patent War With Samsung In 2010
Steve Jobs made contact with Samsung in an effort to resolve a patent argument last year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. However, Jobs did not participate…
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Nokia Cuts 3,500 More Jobs
Nokia announced on Thursday that it will "continue to align its workforce and operations" by reducing its headcount by roughly 3,500 workers. This new round…
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Nokia To Turn Mobile Landscape On Its Head With 'Meltemi' Smartphone OS
Nokia is again developing a proprietary smartphone operating system after announcing this past February that it would abandon both Symbian and MeeGo in favor of…
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Verizon's Free Motorola XOOM 4G LTE Upgrade Process Begins Tomorrow
Motorola XOOM owners who want to take advantage of the promised 4G LTE upgrade can finally begin to do so beginning Thursday. Once a customer…
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Ticonderoga: Amazon's Kindle Fire Is 'Hardly An iPad Killer'
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled the tablet the tech world has been waiting months to see: the Amazon Kindle Fire. We covered Amazon's press conference live…
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Amazon Unveils $200 Kindle Fire Tablet; $99 Kindle Touch eReader, $79 Kindle
During a press event in New York City on Wednesday, Amazon took the wraps off of its $200 Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire is…
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Intel Kills MeeGo In Favor Of Tizen
Intel announced on Wednesday that it will be shifting its efforts from MeeGo to the new "Tizen" mobile operating system recently announced by The Linux…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Hands-On
We received our Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 review unit on Tuesday, and we've spent the better part of this afternoon tooling around and getting a…
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Nielsen: AT&T Smartphone Users More Likely To Be Satisfied Than Users On Other Carriers
A recent Mobile Insights report from research firm Nielsen suggests that AT&T customers are more satisfied with their phones than any other carrier customer in…
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Apple's iPhone 5 Said To Launch On October 14th
Apple will launch its next-generation iPhone 5 in five initial markets on October 14th according to a new report from Macotakara. The site, which has a…
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Apple iPad 2 Order Cuts In Q4 Reportedly Confirmed
Claims that surfaced on Monday suggesting Apple had cut iPad 2 orders for the fourth quarter have reportedly been confirmed. JP Morgan analysts Mark Moskowitz and Gokul…
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Feds Investigating Motorola Solutions For Alleged Bribery
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Motorola Solutions on suspicion of bribery, The Wall Street Journal reported on…
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Developer Says Microsoft Lied To Government About Windows Phone Location Tracking
A developer has revealed evidence that Windows Phone devices collect and transmit user location data before users have given the phones permission to do so.…
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Alleged LulzSec Hacker Dreamt Of A Career With The NSA Or DoD Prior To Arrest
Cody Kretsinger, the alleged LulzSec member who was arrested in Arizona last week, was a student at the University of Advancing Technology in Arizona with…
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Retailers Begin Slashing Prices On BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet [Updated]
Research In Motion's retail partners have begun slashing prices on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in an effort to bolster unimpressive sales. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie…
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Samsung's Fastest-Selling Smartphone Hits New Milestone: 10 Million GALAXY S II Phones Sold
Samsung on Sunday announced that its GALAXY S II line of smartphones has reached a new milestone. Just eight weeks after the South Korea-based vendor…
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Motorola DROID RAZR (Spyder), ATRIX 2, XOOM 2 And XOOM 2 Media Edition Tablet Leaked
Motorola may have big plans for the holiday season, at least according to a few new leaks from This is my next. Official press shots…
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Apple Reportedly Cuts iPad Orders By 25% For Q4 - Or Production Shifts To Brazil
Apple has reportedly cut its fourth-quarter iPad orders to China-based manufacturing partners by 25%, JP Morgan analysts Mark Moskowitz and Gokul Hariharan wrote in a research…
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Android Adoption Doubled iOS Over Past Three Months, Nielsen Finds
Twice as many consumers in the U.S. purchased Android smartphones compared to Apple's iPhone over the past three months, according to new data just released…
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